🎉 Good news: We're launching a new module for our undergrads: CS4313 Animal Computer Interaction (ACI)! 🐈 🐕 🐇 🐟

➡️ bit.ly/comaci

Happy April Fool's Day! 🌚 🤣 Sigh, if only CS4313 Animal Computer Interaction was a real module... 🤔

👽 🚀 Intergalactic adventures await NUS Computing freshmen when they enrol in CS1101S Programming Methodology. There, they are introduced to the fundamentals of computer programming and in the process, are transported to a whole new "world" as space cadets — a "world" comprised not just of 1s & 0s, but of spaceships and alien planets. Learn why Associate Prof Martin Henz made it his mission to make computer science more exciting for new students, and how he has accomplished that with the Source Academy.

➡️ nus.edu/2PjECcX

Wishing all our Christian friends a blessed Good Friday, and a wonderful Easter weekend! 🥚🐰

FULL STORY: Prof Shen Heng Tao, an NUS Computing undergraduate and postgraduate alumnus (Class of 2000 and Class of 2004 respectively), was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) early this year. The ACM Fellows programme recognises the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology, and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community. Congrats, Prof Shen!

➡️ nus.edu/3dyu3e2

🎉 Hooray! Dr Steven Halim, Dr Henry Chia and Dr Tan Wee Kek were conferred the Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) for AY 2018/2019 earlier today. Dr Halim & Dr Lek Hsiang Hui, who are third-time ATEA recipients, also joined the Honour Roll for 2020 & 2019 respectively. Congrats! Full story to follow!

The award winners for AY 2019/2020 will be announced later this year. Stay tuned!

➡️ https://nus.edu.sg/cdtl/teaching-and-learning-quality/teaching-awards/teaching-award-winners

🤚Five more days till the 18th School of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS)! 💻 🎮📲Check out student projects from courses such as interaction design, game development, software engineering & IT solutions during this online live showcase.

All are welcome to join!

🗓️ Wed, 14 Apr
⏰ 3 - 8pm
➡️ Visit bit.ly/signup18steps to register for free!
👉 Stay tuned for more updates on Facebook: bit.ly/fb18steps

NUS Computing Provost's Chair Professor David Hsu has been appointed director of the Smart Systems Institute (SSI), taking over the role from Professor Ooi Beng Chin. Congrats, Prof Hsu!

The SSI conducts high-end smart systems research in areas such as AI, Machine Learning, Augmented/Virtual Reality, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The Institute's researchers aim to discover and solve impactful problems, and contribute to Singapore's smart nation R&D landscape.

➡️ Visit https://ssi.nus.edu.sg/ to learn more.

Wishing all our Muslim friends Ramadan Mubarak!

Learn more about robotics and its rising role in various jobs and industries at this NUS Strategic Technology Management Institute (STMI) webinar.

Registration is free!

➡️ go.gov.sg/nusrobotics

Writing software programmes can be an immense task — the average Android phone uses 12 million lines of code, Facebook runs on 62 million, and a modern car on 100 million. Some software developers employ a neat trick: code reuse, where they take existing code and use it to build new software. NUS Computing Assoc Prof Tan Chuan Hoo studies the impact and influence tech followers have on code reuse, and the benefits of collaboration between leaders and their followers.

➡️ nus.edu/3vezEgQ

Congrats to Asst Prof Yang You for making this year’s Forbes 𝟑𝟎 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 list! 🏆

Dr You was recognised for breaking the world record in 2017 and 2019 – for ImageNet and BERT machine learning training speeds respectively. ImageNet is a visual database used for image recognition, while BERT is a benchmark used by Google and Microsoft to measure a machine's understanding of human languages.

➡️ nus.edu/3vi7SjB

Thirteen research papers by NUS Computing faculty & students were featured in the 30th Web Conference, an annual international top-tier conference focusing on the topic of the World Wide Web. Check out the research papers that were presented at the conference:

➡️ nus.edu/3aCiDVM

SocCat decided to bust out her fortune cat costume to bring y'all some luck for the upcoming exams! 💪

🔎 Can AI identify you in photos without compromising your privacy?

Analysing human attributes such as emotions, gender, and age in images and videos is important for many applications. However, analysing images of faces raises serious privacy concerns as they reveal one's identity. Learn more about privacy concerns related to image and video data analytics, and delve into privacy research utilising deep learning models in this free webinar by N-CRiPT and SGInnovate

🗓️ Thu, 29 Apr
⏰ 4:00 - 5:00pm
➡️ Register for free here: https://www.sginnovate.com/events/privacy-aware-analytics-human-attributes-images

What will future education technology look like? Will we see an AI robot in the classroom in the future? Join our panellists as we discuss the rise of edtech and what it means for the education sector.

Panellists:
🎤 Mr Yee Jenn Jong, education entrepreneur
🎤 NUS Computing Associate Professor Ben Leong

📌 Can the teacher be replaced by a robot?

🗓️ Fri, 21 May 2021
⏰ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
➡️ Register for free at bit.ly/techweb5

All are welcome!

Four more days 'til the end of exams! May the Fourth be with you 💪

Imagine getting an enviable parking lot next to the lift lobby on a crowded weekend or busy workday. Or even securing lots in advance for VIPs at important events – all through a mobile app! 📲 🚗

NUS start-up SureReserve has made this possible with a smart-parking technology solution that is able to guide drivers to their designated lots in real time. Read more to find out how the app makes use of the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve efficiency.

➡️ https://news.nus.edu.sg/nus-start-ups-app-makes-sure-you-get-choice-parking-lots--starting-on-campus/

A massive breach was linked to cyber firm SolarWinds last December, letting hackers into thousands of government agencies and companies. The breach was unique not only in its scale, but also in its method of attack. NUS Computing Professor Abhik Roychoudhury and Associate Professor Liang Zhenkai weigh in on what we've learnt from such cyberattacks.

➡️ https://govinsider.asia/intelligent-gov/nus-cscis-abhik-roychoudhury-liang-zhenkai-terence-siau-what-does-the-solarwinds-saga-mean-for-singapore/

Kudos to NUS Computing alumnus Prantik Mazumdar (CEG, 2005) and his wife, who have raised more than S$192,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to procure oxygen for COVID-19 patients in India! 💖 💪

Using crowdfunding platform Milaap (which was founded by NUS Computing alumni Anoj Viswanathan and Sourabh Sharma) to raise funds, the couple are working with two organisations to procure and deliver some hundred plus oxygen concentrators to India. The first batch of oxygen concentrators have landed in New Delhi, and are currently deployed across the country.

Keen to donate to the fundraiser? Visit https://milaap.org/fundraisers/donate-for-Oxygen-3

➡️ https://mothership.sg/2021/05/india-covid-fundraiser-milaap/