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A challenge that made cryptic crosswords look easy

July 24, 2015
 

As GE takes the next technological leap forward, sensor-enabling its machinery, from streetlights to locomotives, and wirelessly capturing the data that flows from each connection point, coding provides the means not only to sift and analyse the stream, but to net the benefits. Programmers will identify the anomalies that save millions, and code the operational twists that change lives.
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Taking Australia’s resources industry from boom to brilliant

July 20, 2015
 

In this video, filmed in partnership with the Australian Financial Review for Australia’s Energy Future, Mary Hackett, GE Oil and Gas regional director, Australia and New Zealand, explains why Australia should remain optimistic about its future as a resources superpower.
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Where there’s a wind, there’s a watt

July 09, 2015
 

Ararat is a badly drought-affected area of south-western Victoria, yet it’s wind rather than water that is bringing hope to the region’s farmers. “I run sheep on just over 1,000 acres, and part of my land is on the Great Dividing Range,” says Mark McKew. “It’s grazing country, not high-quality cropping country. There are lots of hills, and there’s lots of wind up there.”
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Clear air for clean energy

July 06, 2015
 

In this short video, Peter Cowling, general manager of renewables sales for GE Asia-Pacific, discusses why it is so vital for Australia to encourage investment in clean energy.
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How smart is your street light?

June 25, 2015
 

The speed of light: Vivid 2015 showed the pace of innovation in creative lighting. In the practical space, GE is accelerating the deployment of intelligent lighting systems that use existing infrastructure for the greater civic good.Image Source: Vivid Sydney
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When you code you begin with 01000001 01000010 01000011

June 16, 2015
The kids arriving in the GE Melbourne and Sydney offices after school barely pause to throw down their backpacks so they can get right back to coding. They’re all the children of GE employees and have been part of the company’s new Coding for Kids program, which has run through term two, one afternoon a week.
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Get with the programming: why all kids will be coders

June 10, 2015
 

“Coding is the new literacy. To thrive in tomorrow’s society, young people must learn to design, create and express themselves with digital technologies.” —Mitchel Resnick, media arts and sciences professor at the MIT Media Lab.
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Scanning the north for an end to rheumatic heart disease

June 05, 2015
What if … RHD could be eliminated worldwide? It would save more than 300,000 lives each year. And the 30 million young people who are currently estimated to have the disease would be treated. Young pregnant Aboriginal women living in remote communities would have a much improved chance of surviving childbirth, and their children could grow up with a mum and without the risk of infection.
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How SA Water surfs the electricity spot price

May 27, 2015
Twenty-five thousand kilometres of pipeline, $13 billion worth of infrastructure, delivering water to 1.5 million people in a state that’s bigger than Texas*; and where only 4% of the land receives more than 500mm of rain each year. South Australia is Australia’s driest state, and SA Water is a government-owned enterprise focused on maximising its liquid assets—water and cashflow.
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Heart to heart: city and country coronary survival stats draw equal in SA

May 20, 2015
In South Australia passionate health crusaders have ensured that survival of country-based heart-attack patients is on a par with outcomes in the city (fast-talking GE machines helped accelerate results). As South Australia’s successful iCCnet initiative crosses the borders into NT, WA, Victoria and beyond, its director talks about how machine-to-machine communications will continue to improve recovery of cardiac patients across the land!
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