News Clips


   
NUS Launches New Business Analytics Degree Programme
-Channel NewsAsia
   
NUS Honours Innovators in Video Software, Dialysis Industry
-The Business Times
   

NUS Takes Top Prize in Contest on Risk Awareness
-The Straits Times

   

NUS Uses Technology in Teaching
-Lianhe Zaobao

   

Course Framed as a Game Proves a Hit with Students
-Today

Assignments in this National University of Singapore (NUS) computer programming
class are divided into 22 smaller...

   

They're Ahead of the Class
-Today

Douglas Tan was only seven years old when he discovered a knack for solving mathematical problems...

   

Gifted Student Completes University Education Before Completing NS
-Lianhe Zaobao

   

Course to Teach Health Workers Infocomm Skills
-The Straits Times

HEALTH-CARE professionals get the chance to pick up information technology skills by...

 

From ITE to NUS Scholar
-The New Paper

The late bloomer is now a scholar - and is an inspiration to others. It took a few extra years...

 

New One-Stop Portal to Official Data
-Digital Life

Local mobile applications developers looking for public data to use can start at one portal...

 

Local iPad App is Tops on iTunes
-Today

Two NUS students have developed a Facebook application for Apple's iPads that became the top-seller in iTunes App Store...

 

Building Virtual Towns to Expand Vocabulary
NUS Students Develop Game to Let Children Learn Through Play

-The Straits Times

 

Making Computer Use Easier for Seniors
-The Straits Times

 

Racing Against Herself
-The Sunday Times

 

Young Technology Experts Develop New System for Surveillance Industry
-Lianhe Zaobao

 

No More Getting Lost Around School
-The Straits Times

Students of the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have little reason...

 

Local App Speakes Malay, Mandarin and English
-Digital Life

Here is a quick way to learn a different language. Say you have " Saya seorang pensyarah" shown as...

 

An Interpreter in Your Pocket
-Today

We've all fumbled with unwieldy phrasebooks and dictionaries - probably to unintentionally hilarious...

 

Top Essay Probes Inequality in Asia
-MyPaper

The plight of such people spurred Singapore permanent resident Sarabjit Singh, 26, to pen this thoughts on...

 

NUS Don Finds Joy in Helping Those in Need
-The Straits Times

Over the past 17 months, China-born Canadian national Zhao Shengdong, 34, has been helping lonely individuals...

 

News Coverage of NUS Entrepreneurship Seminar: "China's Internet and Media Market"
-Lianhe Zaobao

 

SoC Research Makes Search Better, Faster and More Accurate
-
The Business Times

The co-existence of search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Baidu is evidence that media search...

 

SoC Research Generates Media Search Tools for the Future
-
The Straits Times

Multimedia information has become more pervasive and now permeates many aspects of our personal and...

 

SoC Start-up TenCube Going Worldwide
-
Digital Life

Local start-up tenCube is eyeing the worldwide market after being acquired by software...

 

Computing Undergrad Muhammad Hirman Wins National Scholarship
-
Berita Harian

 

McAfee to Buy SoC Start-up
-
The Straits Times

Firm That Developed Security Software for Phones and Laptops Could Fetch Over $5M...

 

NUS Partners Tsinghua University to Set Up New Centre to Advance Frontiers of Search Technology

 

A Stroke of Genius -- Article Featuring Undergrad Travis Ho
-
Today

Started by National University of Singapore undergraduate Travis Ho and game developer Jeffrey Jiang last September...

 

Undergraduate Adrian Tan Makes the News
-
The New Paper

He takes a cab to go for classes at the National University of Singapore (NUS). But often, the taxi driver will ask him if...

 

Associate Professor Stanislaw Jarzabek Shares about Life in Singapore
-
Lianhe Zaobao

 

Electronic Eyes Helping to Bust More Crimes
-
The Straits Times

Secondly, developing complete face-recognition technology for crime- fighting remains a "very challenging" problem...

 

Alumnus Xie Chuanling Noted for His New Citizen Blog
-
Lianhe Zaobao

 

Welcome to UTUBE
-
The Straits Times

Dr Atreyi Kankanhalli of the Department of Information Systems at NUS told the Sunday Times the phenomenon...

 

Assistant Professor Goh Khim Yong on Mobile Banking
-
Lianhe Zaobao

 

Undergrad Adrian Tan Wins Scholarship
-
Lianhe Zaobao

 

Computing Alumnus in the News
-
The Business Times

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will be stepping up its efforts to grab a slice of rival Sun Microsystems's customer base in...

 

Making an Impact
-
The Straits Times

The NUS School of Computing is involved in many fields of research, from artificial intelligence and bioinformatics...

 

In the Cause of Science
-
The Straits Times

In the case of Dr Yu Haifeng (below), he developed a series of effective defence mechanisms for computer systems against...

 

Local Team Wins Image Recognition Contest
-
The Business Times

The algorithm developed by Dr Lu, from A*Star Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and team-mate Tan Chew Lim,...

 

Scholarships for 3 Who Rise above Disabilities
-
The Straits Times

Despite being wheelchair-bound from cerebral palsy, Mr Adrian Tan, 22, worked to support himself during his...

 

Gaming Remote Takes on Radiology Lab
-
Lianhe Zaobao

SoC Assistant Professor Michael Brown and his graduate student Lu Zheng have worked with doctors in the US to develop...

 

Top Youth Award for SoC Alumnus
-
The Straits Times

Dr Tong Joo Chuan, 31, principal investigator at the Institute for Infocomm Research, excelled in the...

 

Inventors, Unite Virtually!
-
NUS Knowledge Enterprise

For the first time, a virtual Open House was held concurrently on NUS Second Life. A virtual School for Inventors, which...

 

Next Facebook Craze Could Come from NUS
-
My Paper

Coming up with the next big hit on social-networking sites is on the minds of a group of undergraduates...

 

ST-NUS Business School Series on Globalisation
Getting an Edge in Vying for Top Brains

-
The Straits Times

Every January, the American Economic Association (AEA) and the American Finance Association (AFA)...

 

Scholars' Choice II: IT's His Passion
-
The Straits Times

National University of Singapore (NUS) freshman Daniel Lee urges school leavers to pursue a field...

 

Review: Economy Watchers on Budget 2009
Tax: Case for 'Pay as You Earn'

-
The Straits Times

A key reason in favour of Paye is macroeconomic. In theory, income tax is an automatic economic...

 

Scholars' Choice I:
From Ah Beng to Scholar

-
The Straits Times

Mr Shawn Han recalls his teenage years with a chuckle and says candidly that he was a juvenile...

 

Economic Watch
Two Ways to Stimulate Employment

-
The Straits Times

Last Saturday's newspaper headlines were uniformly grim. the Financial Times declared sombrely...

 

Economic Watch
off the Balance Sheet, then on Again

-
The Straits Times

In a globally integrated economy, it is essential that banks worldwide be subject to common...

 

Vegas 'Gamble' That Hit the Jackpot
-
The Business Times

We, a team of masters students from National University of Singapore (NUS) recently won...

 

Singapore-Made Games on Xbox Live Soon
-
The Straits Times

Singapore's video game creators now have new opportunities due to Microsoft's recently launched...

 

Economic Watch Why US Banks Aren't Leading
-
The Straits Times

On Dec 2, the US Federal Reserved announced that, "in the light of continuing...

 

They Search without Words: NUS Team Wins $150,000 in Multi-Media Search Engine Competition
-

Imagine having to find a phrase that someone use you in a You Tube video clip.

 

Singapore Team Wins Xbox Game Development Challenge
-
The Straits Times & The Business Times

A Singapore team has won Microsoft's global Xbox game development challenge.

 

Economic Watch
the Foundamentals will Always Surface

-
The Straits Times

If nothing else, the current crisis has unscored the accuracy of economics 
as a scientific...

 

ST-NUS Business School Series on Financial Crisis
the Truly Toxic Combination

-
The Straits Times

Moral hazard in Banking is nothing new. In the1980s, Citibank and other major banks saddled with...

 

ST-NUS Business School Series on Financial Crisis
Moral Hazard: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

-
The Straits Times

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that the week of Sept 15 would be studied for years...

 

Tech Body's 1st Woman Chief
-
The Straits Times

It's hard to imagine Tan Yen Yen, 42, having a midlife crisis. However, that was what she...

 

Singapore Researcher Wins Global Award for Vaccine Work

-The Straits Times & Lianhe Zaobao

A Young researcher at A*Star's Institute for Infocomm Research has won a top global....

No Yahoo Auctions Site? No Problem!
-The Straits Times
A number of auction sites set up by Singaporeans have hit the Internet in the last few....

SPH, Ufinity to Launch Interactive TV Service Targeted at 18-40's
-
The Straits Times, Business Times & Lianhe Zaobao

Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) signed an agreement yesterday with interactive media provider....

 

He Keeps the Cyberway Safe
-
The Straits Times

Song Lin Building situated at one of Jalan Syed Alwi is an industrial building with an odd...

 

NUS Launches Interactive Digital Media Programme with Carnegie Mellon University
-Lianhe Zaobao

   

NUS Second Life Virtual Campus
-
Lianhe Zaobao

 

Can't Live without Technology
-
The Straits Times

The general manager of Portal City, a division of National Computer Systems Group that....