CSIRO will adopt the latest artificial intelligence and digital technologies from US giant Microsoft in ambitious projects targeting advances in areas including illegal fishing prevention, removing plastic from rivers and smarter farming.
Australia's top science and research agency has signed a partnership agreement that will see Microsoft engineers working with CSIRO and its technology capacity being used in multiple scenarios, including a plan to catalogue and extract value from decades' worth of scientific research.
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