Dr Liam Davies, RMIT lecturer and research fellow, talks to Craig Francis about the recent announcements on planned ‘activity centres’ in Bayside and beyond. Liam discusses the background to Melbourne’s housing challenges, the idea behind the recently announced new activity centres, and gives his thoughts on some considerations around ongoing planning decisions.
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Professor Kok-Leong Ong from RMIT University, talks to Craig Francis about Artificial Intelligence (AI); what it actually means, what are some of the benefits to mankind, why some of the world’s leading developers of AI are concerned about the rate of advances in technology, and what regulators plan to do about it.
Read moreAllowing rural-residential housing on the edge of towns is putting lives at risk from bushfires according to Professor Michael Buxton from RMIT University. In this podcast from “A Newsman and his Music” (20 January 2020), he tells Colin Tyrus that the failure to enforce recommendations from previous bushfire Royal Commissions is a “time-bomb of catastrophic proportions”.
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