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Team RRwatameda achieves best ICPC World Finals performance in 15 years

27 May 2016 Department of Computer Science , Student , Algorithms & Theory

 

27 May 2016 – NUS Computing’s Team RRwatameda placed 14th in the 2016 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Phuket, Thailand last week, just shy of the coveted top-12 medal positions.

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We have a winner!

20 May 2016 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student , News Media

 

Information Systems student Jacob Tan emerged as one of the winners in both categories of Best Apps and Best Apps from a SAP Partner in the 2016 Fiori app development competition.

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This cool heatmap by a student shows you where all of Singapore’s taxis are right now

11 May 2016 Department of Computer Science , Student , News Media

Computer Science student Joseph Tang created a heatmap showing where all of Singapore’s taxis are in real-time by retrieving the data from the government’s open data initiative.

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PhD student wins Best Short Paper Award at CoNEXT 2015

16 December 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , Systems & Networking

 

16 December 2015 – Fifth year Computer Science PhD student Nimantha Baranasuriya and his collaborators won the Best Short Paper Award at the International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2015),

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Global challenge awaits computing team

15 December 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , News Media

Team RRwatameda comprising NUS Computer Science students (from left) Nguyen Tan Sy Nguyen, Nguyen Thanh Trung and Nguyen Hung Tam have clinched a spot in the ACM ICPC World Finals.

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Global challenge awaits computing team

15 December 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , News Media , Algorithms & Theory

15 December 2015 – An NUS Computing team has qualified for the ACM ICPC World Finals after coming in third at the 2015 ACM ICPC Asia Singapore Regional Contest..

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DBS Bank, A*STAR’s I2R and NUS join forces to develop analytic talent

27 November 2015 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student , News Media

 

DBS Bank, A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have formed a three-year partnership whereby NUS students will have the opportunity to work on real banking challenges with data analytics experts from I2R and professionals at DBS at the DBS-I2R laboratory established in 2014.

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CS students win silver and bronze medals at the 2015 ACM ICPC Phuket Regional

24 November 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , Algorithms & Theory

 

24 November 2015 – NUS Computing teams won silver and bronze medals at the 2015 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Phuket Regional last week.

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NUS Computing team is ACM ICPC Jakarta Regional champion for third consecutive year

17 November 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , Algorithms & Theory

 

17 November 2015 – NUS Computing students have won the 2015 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Jakarta Regional, making NUS Computing champion of the event for a third year running.

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Second year Information Systems students win Best Innovation Award at InnoServe 2015

13 November 2015 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

 

13 November 2015 – Second year Information Systems students Ron Teo De-Zhao and Yang Jing recently won the Best Innovation (Asia Pacific) prize at Taiwan’s 2015 International ICT Innovative Services (InnoServe) Contest, for their summer project ATHENA.

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NUS Computing students win big at 2015 Money 20/20 Hackathon

30 October 2015 Department of Computer Science , Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

 

30 October 2015 – A team of five NUS students won one of the top five prizes of US$20,000, as well as the top Blockchain sponsored prize of US$5,000 in Bitcoin, at the 2015 Money 20/20 Hackathon, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in late October.

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NUS Greyhats sweep Singapore Cyber Conquest 2015

22 October 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , Security

 

22 October 2015 – NUS Computing students have once again swept the top positions at the Singapore Cyber Conquest, which was held on 6th October 2015, in conjunction with GovWare 2015. Bettering last year’s feat, this year, four NUS Computing teams competed against 31 other teams to clinch the top four positions at the annual cyber security contest organised by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA).

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EC student wins New York Super Heroes vs Master Hackers hackathon

21 October 2015 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

 

21 October 2015 – Fourth year Electronic Commerce student Choo Yan Sheng and his teammates won first place at the Super Heroes vs Master Hackers hackathon in New York City, USA, early this month. Yan Sheng, who is in the NUS Overseas College (NOC) New York programme, teamed up with fellow NOC students from Business School, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Yale-NUS, as well as a Business School alumnus.

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Four IS students win inaugural SIA App Challenge

15 October 2015 Department of Information Systems & Analytics , Student

 

15 October 2015 – Information Systems third year student, Lin Baoyu, and fourth year students, Lee Yuan Guang, Loi Liang Yang and Jason Sim Meng Kiat, collectively known as Team EnthuSIAst, won the inaugural Singapore Airlines (SIA) App Challenge that was held between 3 to 10 October 2015.

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Have sun will sail - NUS team develops solar-powered boat

17 September 2015 Department of Computer Science , Faculty , Student , News Media

A group of computer science and engineering students, led by Associate Professor Martin Henz from the Department of Computer Science and Dr Joerg Weigl, have converted a motorised sailing boat to one that uses only solar power and are exploring how to make it commercially viable.

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NUS Computing students and alumni win at Hackathon@SG

24 August 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student , Systems & Networking

 

24 August 2015 – First year Computer Science PhD student Vanchinathan Venkataramani and his NUS teammates won third prize in the Student Category at Hackathon@SG for their ‘smart walking stick’ idea. Ninety-four student teams and over 1,100 participants across all categories competed in the event, which was held at the end of July in Singapore.

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BBAUV wins second place in Robosub 2015

20 August 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student

 

20 August 2015 – The Bumblebee Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (BBAUV) team won second place as well as a cash prize of US$4,000 at the 18th Annual International RoboSub Competition that was held at the end of July in San Diego, California, USA.

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PhD Student Awarded Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

11 August 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student

 

11 August 2015 – Fourth year Computer Science PhD student Tan Shin Hwei has been selected as a recipient of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship: Asia Pacific for 2015.

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NUS Computing team wins robotics challenge at ICRA 2015

22 July 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student

 

22 July 2015 – An NUS Computing team supervised by Professor David Hsu and Associate Professor Lee Wee Sun excelled in a robotics challenge at the IEEE’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), which was held in Seattle, Washington, USA, late May this year.

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SoC students excel at Cyber Defence Discovery Camp 2015

14 July 2015 Department of Computer Science , Student

 

14 July 2015 – Five SoC students distinguished themselves at the Cyber Defenders Discovery Camp (CDDC) 2015 that was held in June.

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