7 November 2019 – An artificial intelligence (AI) engine built by NUS Computing’s database system research group has become the first software tool from Southeast Asia to be ranked in the top 300 projects by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the largest open-source software community in the world.
NUS Computing’s AI system first from Southeast Asia to enter ranks of world’s top open-source software
7 November 2019

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