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The workshop was held from 9 to 10 March and aims to help participants considering pursuing graduate studies in a Master's or PhD programme in Computing to acquire, develop, and exercise research skills in Computer Science and Information Systems. It also featured presentations on the latest research and a hands-on game design session led by Senior Lecturer Anand Bhojan. A total of 40 participants attended the programme.

The FinTech Lab at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) School of Computing has received a generous grant of US$1 million from global enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions provider Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI).

Congratulations to Dr Atreyi Kankanhalli for winning the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Sandra Slaughter Service Award. This award recognises longstanding members who have provided leadership and service within the association such as through past Council positions; association committees; journal editorial boards, conference involvement; SIGs, chapters, or colleges. She received the award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) held from 10 to 13 Dec 2023 in Hyderabad, India.

Congratulations to Pranjal Dutta, a Research Fellow under Associate Professor Divesh Aggarwal's research group, for winning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) India Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was awarded for his dissertation titled, "A Tale of Hardness, De-randomisation and De-bordering in Complexity Theory."

Sometime between 2019 and 2020, a curious phenomenon began surfacing on Signal, FaceTime, and four other mobile messaging applications: someone could ring a person up and listen in to the audio of their surroundings — all without the receiving party picking up the call.

Roughly a decade ago, there was a big shake-up to the startup world. Entrepreneurs looking to fund their latest business venture no longer had to seek seed capital from traditional sources such as angel investors or wealthy individuals. Instead, a markedly different financing option was now trending: crowdfunding.

NUS Computing Assoc Prof Prateek Saxena, Asst Prof Trevor Carlson and PhD student Jason Zhijingcheng Yu delve deeper into CAPSTONE, an exciting new technology with the potential to make our computers much more secure.

One day in May 2014, law enforcement officials swooped down on a warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area. There they found a mini laboratory, pill press machines, and barrels filled to the brim with tiny tablets — marks of a counterfeit drug-making operation. Six men were arrested, including ringleader 35-year-old Jeremy Donagal, nicknamed the ‘Xanax King.’

The ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture (SIGMICRO) has awarded NUS Computing’s Provost’s Chair Professor Peh Li Shiuan the Test of Time (TOT) award. This accolade is reserved for the most influential papers that have been published at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (between 18 to 22 years ago) and have left a significant impact in the area of computer microarchitecture.

NUS Computing Assistant Professor Qiao Dandan has won the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Gordon Davis Young Scholar Award. The award was named in honour of the University of Minnesota’s Professor Gordon Davis, one of the founding fathers of the information systems discipline. It rewards outstanding young scholars like Asst Prof Qiao who are poised to make intellectual contributions in the field of information systems.

About 80 per cent of chronic diseases – such as diabetes and hypertension - are driven by lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise. An innovative tool called the EMPOWER app, jointly developed by NUS School of Computing and SingHealth, is showing great potential in providing timely interventions for patients with diabetes, as well as those afflicted by other chronic diseases, to adopt healthy lifestyle choices and behaviours, and in turn, achieving better health outcomes.

In late 2017, two friends were struggling to make rent in San Francisco, a city known for its notoriously high cost of living. As they brainstormed ideas for how they could “make a few bucks,” the pair spied an opportunity: a big design conference was taking place in town and hotels were hard to come by. What if they bought a few air mattresses for their loft apartment and rented them out? The friends created a simple website to advertise their service, naming it Air Bed and Breakfast. Their idea was a hit, and soon Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, along with a third friend Nathan Blecharczyk, were looking for investors to grow their company.

Debugging is the bane of many a computer programmer’s existence — a task that’s both immensely costly and time-consuming. For a start, locating the source of a software error, or bug, is “like finding a needle in a haystack,” says Abhik Roychoudhury, a Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at NUS Computing.

Congratulations to Dr He Bingsheng and collaborators for winning the award for their paper, "FEBench: A Benchmark for Real-Time Relational Data Feature Extraction" at the Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference. It was held from 28 August to 1 September 2023 in Vancouver, Canada.

24 Aug 2023 — NUS Computing faculty and students have excelled at the recent 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) which was held in July in Toronto, Canada.

10 Aug 2023 — NUS Presidential Young Professor Kuldeep S. Meel and PhD student Jiong Yang won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 35th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2023).

28 Jul 2023 — The advent of financial technology or fintech has significantly transformed the way we manage money, make transactions, and access financial services. Digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based tokens, have emerged as an essential component of the fintech ecosystem.

If you like to dabble in exercise — whether as a weekend warrior, Ironman contender, or somewhere in between — you might remember 2015 as being an exciting year. Fitbit announced it was going public, Apple launched its first smartwatch, and the market became filled with a glittering array of swanky yet functional fitness devices you could comfortably wear on your wrist.