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- Published on Thursday, 25 August 2011 09:26
NUS Sets Up Singapore's First Inter-Disciplinary Research Institute for Cutting-Edge Research in Interactive & Digital Media
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is pleased to announce the setting up of a new research institute to spur R&D in Interactive & Digital Media (IDM). Housing research laboratories in the areas of engineering, physical science and social sciences under one roof, this is the first inter-disciplinary research institute in IDM in Singapore. The new Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI) has been set up with a seed funding of S$11 million over three years. The Institute is expected to receive additional funding from external competitive grants.
Professor Ooi Beng Chin Receives 2012 IEEE Computer Society Kanai Award
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 05:01
The following article appeared in the IEEE Computer Society website.
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 30 January, 2012 – Beng Chin Ooi, professor of Computer Science and Dean of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, has been named winner of the IEEE Computer Society’s 2012 Tsutomu Kanai Award.
Beng Chin, Director of NUS’s Interactive Digital Media Institute and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering editor in chief, was recognized “for pioneering research in distributed database management and peer-to-peer-based enterprise quality management.”
The award recognizes major contributions to state-of-the art distributed computing systems and their applications. The seminal nature of the achievements, their practical impact, breadth and depth, and the quality of the nomination are all considered.
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Set Poetry in Motion, Just Send a Text Message
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- Published on Monday, 14 November 2011 08:59
The following article appeared in The Straits Times on Saturday, 17 September 2011.
Art installation Poetry Mix-Up will create verse and put it on digital display at MRT station.
Send a text message, get a poem hashed out of it. An art installation piece to be housed in the Kent Ridge MRT station promises to make a poet out of anyone with a mobile phone.
When a text message is sent from anywhereacross the island to a dedicated phone number, the artificial intelligence wired into the "braip" of what has been called the Poetry Mix-Up gets to work.
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