How will you be spending Mid-Autumn Festival? Tell us!
Anonymous Poll
29%
Eating mooncakes🥮
8%
Admiring the moon 🌝
0%
Catching the lantern display at Chinatown🏮
71%
Mugging for tests & assignments 📝
8%
All of the above! (Not all at once, of course)
The cool folks from the NUS Space Club were featured in yesterday's episode of CNA's science & tech series, Why It Matters. If you missed it yesterday, watch it here online: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/why-it-matters-4/why-aim-for-space-13162154
To watch them in action, jump right to 20:46!
The NUS Space Club - also known as the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) - is jointly sponsored by NUS Computing and NUS Engineering. The club brings together students from a range of disciplines who share a passion for space exploration. Visit https://nusseds.space/ to learn more.
To watch them in action, jump right to 20:46!
The NUS Space Club - also known as the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) - is jointly sponsored by NUS Computing and NUS Engineering. The club brings together students from a range of disciplines who share a passion for space exploration. Visit https://nusseds.space/ to learn more.
CNA
Why It Matters - S4E8: Why Aim For Space
The space race is heating up once again - with space superpowers and private companies with deep pockets attempting missions to the Moon and beyond. Enter a new contender - Singapore. What can a small nation like Singapore achieve in the vast expanse of space?…
To pay, or not to pay, that is the question. Would you shell out money for paywalled online news articles? 🗞️
To find out how newspaper readers behave in a competitive information market, NUS Computing Assistant Professor Chen Nan & his team created a mathematical model to simulate their behaviour.
➡️ https://nus.edu/2Gd2Oc8
To find out how newspaper readers behave in a competitive information market, NUS Computing Assistant Professor Chen Nan & his team created a mathematical model to simulate their behaviour.
➡️ https://nus.edu/2Gd2Oc8
We're excited to begin our webinar, which will take place at 10.30am today. If you're keen to join us, it's still not too late to sign up! 😉
📌Topic: Technology, Pandemic, and Privacy: How do contact tracing or online shopping technologies protect one's privacy?
➡️ Sign up here: bit.ly/techpandemic
📌Topic: Technology, Pandemic, and Privacy: How do contact tracing or online shopping technologies protect one's privacy?
➡️ Sign up here: bit.ly/techpandemic
🎶 Walk this way! 🎶
Strut. Shuffle. Sashay.🚶🏽🕺🏻💃🏽
Did you know that the way you walk (i.e. your gait) can reveal important information about your health? For example, medical professionals study gait to learn how certain patterns can be indicators of diseases such as Parkinson’s, and sport scientists analyse gait to help track and improve the performance of their athletes. These studies, however, are usually conducted in labs, using large, heavy and expensive equipment.
Enter NUSComputing Lecturer, Dr Boyd Anderson who recently developed a mobile gait analysis device using ultra wideband technology as an alternative that will allow these gait analyses to be done easily, effectively and naturally as part of the patients and athletes’ everyday routines!
➡️ https://nus.edu/2St39Kk
Strut. Shuffle. Sashay.🚶🏽🕺🏻💃🏽
Did you know that the way you walk (i.e. your gait) can reveal important information about your health? For example, medical professionals study gait to learn how certain patterns can be indicators of diseases such as Parkinson’s, and sport scientists analyse gait to help track and improve the performance of their athletes. These studies, however, are usually conducted in labs, using large, heavy and expensive equipment.
Enter NUSComputing Lecturer, Dr Boyd Anderson who recently developed a mobile gait analysis device using ultra wideband technology as an alternative that will allow these gait analyses to be done easily, effectively and naturally as part of the patients and athletes’ everyday routines!
➡️ https://nus.edu/2St39Kk
ICYMI: Into #sports and #athletics? Keen to up your running game?🏃🏽♀️🏃
This cool ‘wearable’ mobile gait analysis device that uses ultra wideband technology - developed by NUS Computing Lecturer, Dr Boyd Anderson - can measure the position, acceleration and rotation of your feet as you’re walking, running, or playing sports! It can also help medical professionals assess patients’ fall risk and look out for indicators of diseases such as Parkinson’s.
Check out the prototype in action!
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQ8t8hV_P4
This cool ‘wearable’ mobile gait analysis device that uses ultra wideband technology - developed by NUS Computing Lecturer, Dr Boyd Anderson - can measure the position, acceleration and rotation of your feet as you’re walking, running, or playing sports! It can also help medical professionals assess patients’ fall risk and look out for indicators of diseases such as Parkinson’s.
Check out the prototype in action!
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQ8t8hV_P4
YouTube
Measuring The Way You Walk
Keen to up your running game?
This cool ‘wearable’ mobile gait analysis device - developed by #NUSComputing Lecturer, Dr Boyd Anderson - can measure the position, acceleration and rotation of your feet as you’re walking, running, or playing sports!
Read…
This cool ‘wearable’ mobile gait analysis device - developed by #NUSComputing Lecturer, Dr Boyd Anderson - can measure the position, acceleration and rotation of your feet as you’re walking, running, or playing sports!
Read…
GOOD NEWS: The folks at Meel Group (one of our AI research labs) won the top prizes at a competition for solvers of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. Congratulations! 🎉
Find out how they ‘made the best of a dark situation’ and seized opportunities that led to their victory!
➡️ https://nus.edu/34uaWx6
Find out how they ‘made the best of a dark situation’ and seized opportunities that led to their victory!
➡️ https://nus.edu/34uaWx6
This International Day of the Girl, we share the stories of three unique women who were shaped by various events in their youths. Fuelled by their interest in science and technology, they have each made far-reaching contributions with inventions that might have been ahead of their time, but are widely used in modern society today.
Do you recognise them?
➡️ bit.ly/idofgirl
Do you recognise them?
➡️ bit.ly/idofgirl
Kudos to NUS Computing alumnus Prantik Mazumdar and his fellow NUS alumni for coming together to help Indonesian daily wage workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic! 👏
Find out how you can participate in the fundraising campaign below.
➡️ https://e27.co/singapore-tech-entrepreneurs-raise-funds-to-help-indonesian-daily-wage-workers-during-covid-19-20201006/
Find out how you can participate in the fundraising campaign below.
➡️ https://e27.co/singapore-tech-entrepreneurs-raise-funds-to-help-indonesian-daily-wage-workers-during-covid-19-20201006/
e27
Singapore tech entrepreneurs raise funds to help Indonesian daily wage workers during COVID-19
Since Jakarta's first lockdown in April, an estimated six to nine million workers have already lost their jobs
Have you ever given thought to how we would live if the world has been submerged underwater? 🤔
This team of NUS Computing students won first place at the Facebook Singapore Virtual Hack 2020 earlier this month for coming up with an innovative solution to this problem.
Aloysius, Gabriel, Gwyneth, Jia Chen and Sidhant, who were given an hour to come up with the solution, wowed judges with the AquaDome: underwater, habitable spaces for humans connected to floating farms.
Check out their creative idea!
➡️ nus.edu/3nJOR6v
This team of NUS Computing students won first place at the Facebook Singapore Virtual Hack 2020 earlier this month for coming up with an innovative solution to this problem.
Aloysius, Gabriel, Gwyneth, Jia Chen and Sidhant, who were given an hour to come up with the solution, wowed judges with the AquaDome: underwater, habitable spaces for humans connected to floating farms.
Check out their creative idea!
➡️ nus.edu/3nJOR6v
CONGRATS to the folks from our AI research lab, Meel Group, for winning the top prize at the 1st International Competition on Model Counting! 🎉
Find out more about ApproxMC and GANAK, the two model counters that brought them the win.
➡️ https://nus.edu/2T4r6I7
Find out more about ApproxMC and GANAK, the two model counters that brought them the win.
➡️ https://nus.edu/2T4r6I7
We’re proud to share that NUS Computing alumnus Laurence Putra Franslay (CS, Class of 2013) won the People of Good award at the President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards (PVPA) (Special Edition 2020)!
Well aware that those from the public rental community were hit hard during the circuit breaker period, Laurence, an engineering manager at PayPal, started Project Stable Staples to raise funds to provide grocery vouchers to these families.
“Given that many of them had part time income, and that majority of the retail outlets were going to be closed during CB, we saw that the impact to this group could be rather significant," Laurence explained.
Our heartiest congratulations to Laurence!
➡️ https://www.facebook.com/196079168884/posts/10159096249448885/?extid=0&d=n
Well aware that those from the public rental community were hit hard during the circuit breaker period, Laurence, an engineering manager at PayPal, started Project Stable Staples to raise funds to provide grocery vouchers to these families.
“Given that many of them had part time income, and that majority of the retail outlets were going to be closed during CB, we saw that the impact to this group could be rather significant," Laurence explained.
Our heartiest congratulations to Laurence!
➡️ https://www.facebook.com/196079168884/posts/10159096249448885/?extid=0&d=n
These days, we live and buy by online reviews. 🛒 Who are the people behind such reviews, and why do they write them? What happens when retailers offer incentives such as free or heavily discounted products to these reviewers? Better yet, what happens to the subsequent reviews they may write that are non-incentivised?
Assistant Professor Qiao Dandan and her team examine the perils of product reviews and tells us how it may affect users’ subsequent reviewing behaviour.
➡️ nus.edu/3kAZYNn
Assistant Professor Qiao Dandan and her team examine the perils of product reviews and tells us how it may affect users’ subsequent reviewing behaviour.
➡️ nus.edu/3kAZYNn
NUS Computing's Technology Webinar Series returns on Wed, 11 Nov!
In this webinar, we will discuss how to better prepare for AI's disruptive effects on jobs.
Panellists:
🎤Mr Laurence Liew, Director for AI Innovation at AI Singapore
🎤Associate Professor Huang Ke-Wei, NUS Computing
Moderator:
🎤 Associate Professor Goh Khim Yong, NUS Computing
📌Topic: AI and the Future of Jobs
If AI will replace human jobs, how should we prepare our citizens and companies for the future?
🗓️ Date: Wed, 11 Nov
⏰ Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
➡️ Sign up here: bit.ly/ai-and-jobs
In this webinar, we will discuss how to better prepare for AI's disruptive effects on jobs.
Panellists:
🎤Mr Laurence Liew, Director for AI Innovation at AI Singapore
🎤Associate Professor Huang Ke-Wei, NUS Computing
Moderator:
🎤 Associate Professor Goh Khim Yong, NUS Computing
📌Topic: AI and the Future of Jobs
If AI will replace human jobs, how should we prepare our citizens and companies for the future?
🗓️ Date: Wed, 11 Nov
⏰ Time: 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
➡️ Sign up here: bit.ly/ai-and-jobs
These legs are made for walking! 👣 How much do you think you walk each day?
To find out the walking patterns of Singaporeans, NUS Computing Assistant Professor Brian Lim and his collaborators analysed the step counts of 140,000 people who took part in the National Steps Challenge organised by the Health Promotion Board.
Across a period of 305 days, that added up to a total of 74 BILLION steps! 🤯
Check out the findings from their paper, which won the ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award at the recent UbiComp 2020 Conference:
➡️ https://nus.edu/2HJIhN7
To find out the walking patterns of Singaporeans, NUS Computing Assistant Professor Brian Lim and his collaborators analysed the step counts of 140,000 people who took part in the National Steps Challenge organised by the Health Promotion Board.
Across a period of 305 days, that added up to a total of 74 BILLION steps! 🤯
Check out the findings from their paper, which won the ACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award at the recent UbiComp 2020 Conference:
➡️ https://nus.edu/2HJIhN7
Most of 2020 has pretty much been a nightmare, but…what horrors especially plagued our profs this year…? 🤔
(Some hints: 💻 👀 🔇🐒)
➡️ https://www.facebook.com/nusschoolofcomputing/posts/10159119815828885
(Some hints: 💻 👀 🔇🐒)
➡️ https://www.facebook.com/nusschoolofcomputing/posts/10159119815828885
Our annual School of Computing Term Project Showcase (STePS) is back! We're moving STePS online this year, with more than 45 student teams from six NUS Computing courses on display.
These projects encompass all aspects of computer science and information systems, such as software product engineering, machine learning, game development, natural language and affective computing.
🗓️ Wed, 11 Nov
⏰ 3 - 8pm
➡️ Visit https://isteps.comp.nus.edu.sg/event/17th-steps to register. Registration is free!
These projects encompass all aspects of computer science and information systems, such as software product engineering, machine learning, game development, natural language and affective computing.
🗓️ Wed, 11 Nov
⏰ 3 - 8pm
➡️ Visit https://isteps.comp.nus.edu.sg/event/17th-steps to register. Registration is free!
🎉 Congrats to NUS Computing Professor Chua Tat Seng for winning the Best Paper award at the prestigious ACM Multimedia Conference 2020!
The team presented a first of its kind symbolic music model that integrates pitch, rhythm and dynamics information at a note level, instead of representing music notes using pitch information. Symbolic music refers to music stored in a format that has explicit information such as note onsets and pitch. 🎶
The model forms the basis for a wide range of music tasks, such as music retrieval, genre classification, phrase completion, accomplishment assignment, and music generation.
➡️ nus.edu/3k28Vy8
The team presented a first of its kind symbolic music model that integrates pitch, rhythm and dynamics information at a note level, instead of representing music notes using pitch information. Symbolic music refers to music stored in a format that has explicit information such as note onsets and pitch. 🎶
The model forms the basis for a wide range of music tasks, such as music retrieval, genre classification, phrase completion, accomplishment assignment, and music generation.
➡️ nus.edu/3k28Vy8
NUS Computing professors Dong Jin Song, Wing-Kin Sung & Lee Gim Hee are among the grant recipients of the MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 2 scheme. The funding received will advance their research on software debugging, genetic variation discovery & deep learning for 3D computer vision respectively.
➡️ nus.edu/362UpRy
➡️ nus.edu/362UpRy