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Australia’s ambition is catching up with its ability

December 21, 2015
He has just been anointed as one of the nation’s key digital enablers in the Innovation 100 list. In this post for GEreports, Geoff Culbert, President and CEO of GE Australia, New Zealand and PNG, describes his optimism that the Antipodean attitude toward an ideas-based economy is turning around.
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Medical Imaging

See the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of Researchers Attacks World’s Biggest Killer with Software

Drew Field
December 03, 2015
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this year that more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause.
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Put 26 innovators in an incubator and … apply pizza!

December 03, 2015
Breakfast croissants, all-day pizza and technical and commercial mentors on tap fuelled the thought processes of participants at GE’s first Industrial Hackathon in Sydney on the weekend of November 28-29. There were other hackathons running elsewhere in the city, but at GE four industrial-sized problems had been posed. Eight teams—most of them formed on Saturday morning—hunkered down to create solutions in unfamiliar territory: remote-worker safety, railway maintenance, tracking licensing data of healthcare engineers, and optimising the energy usage of industrial users.
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Innovation

Startups Get Flush With Slush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global Sellout Crowd

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2015
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for the people who wanted to work for them,” says Riku Mäkelä, who studies business and engineering at Aalto. “But when they started talking to young entrepreneurs, they realized that this was a Europe-wide problem. They decided to do something about it.”
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Breakthrough

Steve Gullans: To Be Human Is To Adapt

Steve Gullans Managing Director Excel Venture Management
November 12, 2015

The pace of innovation may be accelerating, but our ability to adapt to the latest technologies remains undeterred.

 

Technology is not an obstacle to humanity. Humans evolve — behaviorally, physically, morally, biologically.

Over many millennia, humans migrated around the globe adapting to changing climates, predators, foods, pathogens, rival tribes and countless obstacles and opportunities. To be human is to adapt.
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Breakthrough

Engines of Inference: Peter Tu’s Tech Uses Computer Vision to Understand Emotions, Human Behavior

November 06, 2015
If Peter Tu’s technology takes off, an airplane could know when pilots get distracted in the cockpit and offer suggestions to help them make better decisions. Similarly, doctors could receive important tips on communicating and improving body language when presenting patients with a diagnosis.
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Breakthrough

Science in Action: New Breakthrough TV Series from NatGeo and GE Zooms In on Live-Changing Research

Tomas Kellner
October 29, 2015
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business.
Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) have teamed up with GE and National Geographic Channel to make a six-part documentary TV series focusing on scientific breakthroughs and innovation.
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Talking about our innovation

October 26, 2015
When GE’s global CEO and chairman Jeff Immelt comes to town, checking in on GE’s customers and operations, everyone makes the most of it.
At a lunch for 200 of WA’s top executives, from marketers, miners and media magnates—including Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder, Seven West Media chairman Kerry Stokes, Shell Australia chair Andrew Smith, and GE Australia, NZ and PNG chief executive and president Geoff Culbert, and regional director of Oil & Gas. Mary Hackett—Jeff Immelt was making the most of it, too.
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The innovation platform: GE’s amazing locomotives

October 23, 2015
Australia’s newest iron-ore mine Roy Hill is getting ready to bid farewell to its first shipment from Port Hedland, Australia’s busiest mineral export port in the far north west of Western Australia. The mine’s ‘first ore on ship’ milestone will happen in the next few weeks, the culmination of decades of dreaming, planning and building.
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artificial-intelligence

Stuart Armstrong: Will Artificial Intelligence Destroy Humanity?

Dr Stuart Armstrong James Martin Research Fellow At The Future Of Humanity Institute Oxford University
October 02, 2015

Unless we have clear evidence that artificially intelligent beings we create pose no threat, we need to seriously consider the risk.

 

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