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Fuel your knowledge or accelerate your career with our Master in Computing programmes (General and Specialisation track)! Applications for January 2024 intake are now open.

📆 Application closes on 31 Aug
➡️ Visit https://nus.edu/3rRPpxB for more info
Have you ever participated in the National Steps Challenge🚶‍♂️? For those who are unaware of it, you get rewarded for completing a certain number of steps each day.

A China-based fitness app takes it up a notch—users can earn points and compete with peers.

How does these gamification 👾 elements affect user behaviour between different groups and what factors should we measure them by?

➡️ NUS Computing Provost Chair's Professor Teo Hock Hai, Associate Professor Goh Khim Yong and Associate Professor Sharon Tan finds out here: https://nus.edu/44YMEJ6
Fintech innovations have become integral components of the socio-, economic and technological ecosystem. However, overcoming challenges—with particular regard to the custody of digital assets—is crucial for fintech's sustained growth.

Leading this project, NUS Computing, Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) and Northern Trust announced their commitment to support the development of blockchain technologies for institutional use on 12 July.

➡️ https://nus.edu/3rUq0DO
Calling all aspiring entrepreneurs! Forge your ideas 🌟 as an entrepreneurial maverick with the Venture Initiation Programme (VIP@SoC) grant. The grant spans for one year and awards up to $10,000.

BetterEarth, one of the AY22/23 Sem 2 winners spoke to us. Armed with a passion to make eco-living more accessible, the team developed an app, EcoQuest 🌱 which they cheekily quipped as “your ticket to a sustainable lifestyle gaming adventure.”

👆Tap to read more about their experience in the VIP@SoC programme and apply now at bit.ly/vip-soc! Application closes on 1 Sep 2023.
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Happy National Day, Singapore! From all of us at #NUSComputing 🎂 🇸🇬
GOOD NEWS: NUS Presidential Young Professor Kuldeep Meel and PhD student Jiong Yang has clinched the Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2023)! 🎉📝

The pair proposed a novel technique known as "rounding" to address Model Counting, a fundamental computational problem in their winning paper.

➡️ https://nus.edu/45299xu
Exactly a month ago, NUS Greyhats and National Cybersecurity Lab (NCL) concluded another highly successful Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition. ⛳️

A total of 90 international and local active members of the CTF community were invited to compete in the challenge which was held at SoC Multipurpose Hall on 15-16 July.

Read more about the competition and the winners here: https://nus.edu/47qJhwR
A big round of applause to our #NUSComputing students for clinching Gold 🥇 for Flag Day once again this year! Many of them took to the streets on 29 July and raised an approximate sum of $11,700. No easy feat! Proceeds will be channelled through Community Chest to 20 Social Service Agencies.

More Good News: Decked in rainbow 🌈 makeup and colourful costumes, our students took over UTown Green last Saturday with an electrifying performance and earned a Shining Silver 🥈 for RAG!

Well done everyone!