SingAREN
Distribution Applications Competition (Dec
1999)
Three SAS teams won the 1st prize,
Best Java Application Award and a Merit Award from
this competition sponsored by Sun and Netscape Alliance.
The 1st prize went to the team
consisting of Ong Kok Leong, Liew Chin Chuan, Tan
Beng Suang and Zhao Lei (led by Asst Prof Ng Wee Keong).
The Best Java Application Award went to the team consisting
of Sneha N Shah, Jayanth Nagarajan and John I C Gomes
(led by Asst Prof Clement Chia). The team consisting
of Zhang Jianfeng and Sim Han Seah (led by Assoc Prof
Yeo Chai Kiat and Assoc Prof Francis Lee) won the
Merit Award.
Their project titles were:
- ABECOS: Agent-Based Electronic
Commerce System
- Intelligent Online Network
- Distributed Interactive Simulation
Systems
The 1st prize winning team won
a cash award of $2000 and a trip to the JavaOne conference.
CrayQuest
(Oct 1999)
A team representing SAS Centre
for Advanced Information Systems won the Gold Award
of $8,000 in the CrayQuest organised by the Institute
of High Performance Computing and SGI Computer. The
competition was open to all and has attracted twice
as many teams this year. The SAS team consisted of
students Vee Voon Yee, Ye Rong and Shah Sneha. The
supervisor is CAIS Director Assoc Prof. Hsu Wen Jing.
Lecturing
via Online Video Conferencing (Sept
1999)
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| Lecture
via Internet in LT20 NTU |
For lecturers, regardless of their
physical locations, so long as they are armed with
a laptop and a video camera, lectures will proceed.
A/P Francis Lee Bu Sung has demonstrated the feasibility
of remote lecturing when he was in Canberra attending
conferences. He held his usual Computer Networks lecture
to his 300 third year students in LT20, NTU on Tuesday
21 Sep 99 from the Australian National University
via video conferencing. In this way, lecturers do
not have to cancel classes while they are away overseas.
Reported in Straits Times dated
14 Sep 99.
IEEE/IEICE
ATM Workshop '99, "Outstanding Paper from Academia
Award" (May
1999)
Mr Jeremy Ping Chew, a graduate
student working with Dr Anil Gupta, has been bestowed
with the "Outstanding Paper from Academia Award"
and a cash of Yen 50,000 at an IEEE workshop.
The details of the paper are:
Jeremy Ping Chew and Anil K. Gupta,
"Active Fairness: Improved Fairness with Dynamic
VC Weights and Generalized Fairness in the ATM ABR
Service," IEEE/IEICE ATM Workshop '99, Kochi-city,
Japan, May 24-27, 1999.
Alarm
System to Make Lift Safe (May
1999)
Under the supervision of Dr Maylor
Leung and Dr Hui Siu Cheung, final year computer engineering
student Pong Chen How, together with MSc. students
Xiao Ping and Wang Fudong, have developed an intelligent
lift which will trigger an alarm if it detects anything
unusual happening in the lift. Armed with an electronic
eye (i.e. a video camera), visual data are captured
and fed to a computer via Internet. The video data
are analysed by an intelligent software to detect
if there is any unusual event. In which case, an alarm
will be raised at the security guard console and the
guard can zoom it on the lift concerned. Dr Maylor
Leung hit upon this idea to make lift safer after
reading about the spate of lift robberies.
Report in Straits Times dated 25
May 99.
Book
Hunt - Swap or Buy Old Books Online (Feb 1999)
Computer Engineering students,
Ling Tao and Chen Xudong won the Campus Tech
Wave, a program-writing contest organised
by Sybase and Sun Microsystems with their
project entitled 'Book Hunt'. Book Hunt facilitates
the trading of books online among students
and it will be replacing the current manual
process, handled by the NTU Students' Union,
and various faculty and hostel clubs. They
won themselves a trip to Florida.
Reported in Straits Times
dated 6 Feb 99.
IBM
and Buena Vista Columbia TriStar Films - "A Bug's
Life Animation Contest" (Nov
1998)
NTU team represented by Dr Wong
Kok Cheong, Director, Centre for Graphics and Imaging
Technology, with team members Mr Lim Swee Kim, Mr
Albert Goh Lian Lai, Mr Low Boon Hean and Dr Ramakrishnan
Balajee, won the first prize in this competition opened
to all tertiary institutions in Singapore.
The prize consists of an IBM IntelliStation
M Pro Professional Workstation and a 1-week internship
at Disney Animation Studio, Sydney, is worth more
than $17,000.
IEEE
Computer Society, Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding
Student Paper Award (May
1998)
The
paper, "Bi-directional Motion Estimation via
Vector Propagation," was judged on technical
content, writing skill, and overall presentation excellence.
The paper was the work of Mr Showbhik Kalra's Accelerated
Honours Project, supervised by Dr. Chong Man Nang.
Mr Showbhik Kalra completed his B.A.Sc. (Computer
Engineering) in Nov 1997 and is currently a research
engineer at the NSTB Centre for Signal Processing. Click here
for full report.
ACM
International Collegiate Programming Contest
World Finals (Feb
1998)
Our
team which consisted of Mr Vee Voon Yee, Ramachandran
Sreenam and Mahadevan Bharath, came in 11th
in the world and 2nd in Asia. Fifty-four teams
took part in the Finals held at the United
States (Atlanta, Georgia) on 28 February 1998.
Click here for
a look at our team in Atlanta.
Outstanding
Paper Award (Dec
1997)
Dr Quek Hiok Chai is a Senior Lecturer
from Software Systems Division. The paper won
the outstanding paper award by the Association for
the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE, USA)
at the International Conference on Computers in Education:
CrayQuest
96 (Jan 1997)
The project, "High Performance
MOS VLSI Switch Level Circuit Simulation on the Cray
T94 Supercomputer", won the Gold Award of $8,000
in the CrayQuest ‘96 organised by the National
Supercomputing Research Centre and the Cray Research.
The competition was held in Singapore. The NTU
team consisted of Mr Alfred Heng, the supervisor and
two undergraduate students, Md Javer Absar and Manish
Bhardwaj. Mr Alfred Heng is a Senior Lecturer in the
Division of Software Systems.
