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SoC Clinches Double Honours in Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award 2008

Too many functionalities in daily life are software controlled, and reliable software development is
thus of great importance. JSlice is a tool for
program debugging and comprehension. It partially automates the search for programming errors, thereby improving software quality as well as programmer productivity.

SoC Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury and his students Wang Tao and Guo Liang are the team behind JSlice. Their work has won the team the Silver Award in the Open Category of Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award 2008.

The team received the award from Minister for Defence Mr Teo Chee Hean at a ceremony held at the Singapore Science Centre on 21 June 2008.

The SoC entry is the only Silver Award winner chosen out of 59 submissions in the Open Category IT Section.

The Gold Award, which has been given out only thrice in the competition’s 20-year history, is not given out this year.

Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury (right) and Guo Liang (left) with Minister for Defence Mr Teo Chee Hean, the Guest-of-Honour at the award ceremony.

In the student category, a team of three from the Media group has done the School proud with their intelligent search engine. Victor Goh Hai-Kiat, Zheng Yan-Tao and Neo Shi-Yong, all in the Media group and working under the supervision of Professor Chua Tat Seng, are the three students who are behind the novel search engine.

Photo on the left: Neo Shi-Yong (left) and Victor Goh (right) with Minister for Defence Mr Teo Chee Hean at the award ceremony.

Photo above: The third member of the winning team: Zheng Yan-Tao.

To catch a glimpse into how their winning entry works, consider that current video search systems are mostly based
on a single iteration of text-based retrieval. The results they produce are usually not satisfactory due to ineffective video analysis and query interpretation. To resolve this problem, the three graduate students in SoC have provided an interactive and interesting way of video search to help the users look for what they need. The search engine they have built is embedded with intelligence to automatically understand query needs and video targets in the shortest possible time.

Their work has won Victor, Yan-Tao and Shi-Yong the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Merit Award in 2008.

The Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award is jointly organised by Tan Kah Kee Foundation, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) and the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA). Its purpose is to
encourage inventions that would bring economic benefit to the country.

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