Best
Idea Award & Best Audience Choice Award at Wireless
Java Jam (Dec 2002)
SCE team consisting of Romil Gupta,
Prashant Goela and Dev Remnane clinched the top prize
of "Best Idea Award" in the "Wireless Java Jam" today
organized by the Java Wireless Competency Centre (JWCC)
and supported by iDA, Nokia, SCS and SITF. They won
a prize money of $1,500 and a Palm M125.
They also won the "Best Audience
Choice Award" which is by the number of audience votes.
NT
United, first runner up, in the 2002 ACM Asia Regional
Programming Contest (Nov
2002)
NT United, a team of NTU SCE students
became the first runner up in the Dhaka site resolving
four problems. Seventy nine teams from different universities
took part in this contest.
The members of this team are Arun
Kishore Kuttiparambath, Pham Minh Tri and Phan Thanh
Hai.
Click on the following for the
full report.
The team went on to clinch 33 placing
with an honourable mention (US$1,200) in the 2003
ACM World Finals at Beverly Hills, California from
March 22-26, 2003.
NTU
device gives drivers directions (Feb
2002)
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| Director of NTU's Centre
for High Performance Embedded Systems, A/P Srikanthan
(L) with Research Associate Mr Quek Kai Hock |
A team from the Centre
for High Performance Embedded Systems at Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) has developed an embedded
device to optimize routes for motorists. Drivers will
soon be able to pick the fastest and cheapest routes
to their destinations from a palm-sized computer in
their cars by avoiding traffic jams and bypassing
ERP gantries.
Reported in Straits Times dated
12 Feb 02
NTU
team builds high-tech aid for hip-joint surgery
(Dec 2001)
NTU researchers Assoc Prof Kwoh
Chee Keong and Assoc Prof Ng Wan Sing have developed
a system, called Arora (Augmented Reality Orthopaedic
Aid) to reduce patients' risk of hip dislocation after
surgery. It uses computers and sophisticated software
to help surgeons position the prosthetic hip joint
to get the best fit for the ball and socket joint.
Reported in Straits Times dated
11 Dec 01
Automate
your home - Anytime, anywhere and from any device
(NTU students in top 3 in the first Asia Student .NET
competition) (Oct
2001)
Five third-year CE students - Arun
Jacob, Arun Kishore, Dev Ramnane, Nishith Prabhakar
and Rajat Dev came up with the above idea when they
entered and won the first Microsoft Singapore .NET
Competition 2001. Using a method they have devised,
a home owner can communicate with his/her home computer,
which in turn communicates with the various "smart"
home devices. The home owner can send commands to
the home computer through SMS, WAP or through an internet
web page in order to control these smart devices.
This user's home is also linked through a web service
with enhanced privacy features, so that 3rd-party
applications (like a supermarket) can service the
user's home and its devices automatically without
the user knowing it.
Along the way, the students implemented
some innovative services exploiting the recently unveiled
.NET platform. Among them include an SMS web service
that can be programmatically invoked, as well as an
HTML-WML gateway that converts and resolves any HTML
page to WML, opening up the entire internet to a WAP-enabled
phone. A user can browse popular web pages without
subscribing to GPRS services and without the need
for the latest handphones.
The NTU team came in top in Singapore
among 50 tertiary teams. Following this, they represented
Singapore in the first Microsoft Asia Student .NET
competition in Seoul, South Korea where they were
placed third among teams from 11 countries and more
than 300 universities. They were awarded the prize
by Mr. Bill Gates. For their effort, the students
bagged Compaq laptops and PDAs.
Pictures
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| Receiving
prize from Bill Gates |
The
NTU team |
Singapore
team booth at final presentation in Seoul |
Links
- Reported
in Straits Times dated 30 Oct 01
Lucent
Technologies recognizes CE student with science scholarship
(July 2001)
Alvin Teo Shih Howe from the Nanyang
Technological University was one of the two Singaporean
winners for the Lucent Technologies' Global Science
Scholars Program at an awards ceremony held in its
Asia Pacific Training and Education and Technical
Support Centre. This is the first time that the Global
Science Scholars Program has been awarded in Singapore.
The award is targeted at tertiary students pursuing
careers in communications and information technology.
He received a cheque for US$5,000.
He visited Bells Labs' New Jersey headquarters for
a Global Summit from 23-27 July 2001, and interacted
with 108 fellow program winners from 21 other countries.
Click here
for the full report.
Smart
Electronic Watchman (July
2001)
Associate
Professor Maylor Leung and his PhD student Li
Liyuan, developed a smart electronic sentry following
2.5 years of research. The electronic eye, essentially
closed-circuit cameras powered by artificial intelligence
software, can watch over your home, detect unusual
happenings and raise alarms during emergencies or
break-ins. Its potential applications include enhancing
security in public places, such as void-decks, lifts,
airports and shopping malls.
Reported in Straits Times dated
27 Mar 01
Nanyang
CSIDC "Bluetooth" Team qualified for World
Finals (May 2001)
The
NTU student team comprising of Mr Alex Tan, Mr Raymond
Wee, Mr Sandeep Prakash, Mr Tan Kok Sen and Mr Alfred
Lee (all final year students) made it to the World
Finals of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Computer
Society International Design Competition (CSIDC).
The IEEE-CSIDC is an annual competition
open to undergraduate students all over the world.
The theme for this year's competition is "Personal
Area Networks". Each team is given a Bluetooth
project kit and is required to design and implement
a system or an application based on the theme.
Click here
for the full report.
Advanced e-Business
Applications Competition (Nov
2000)
Four SCE teams won the 1st prize,
2nd prize, a Merit Award and the Best Java Application
Award from this competition sponsored by SingAREN,
Sttarfire.com and iPlanet.
The 1st prize went to the team
consisting of Anand V, Arun Puri, Pathik Gupta and
Amol Dabholkar (led by A/P Yeo Chai Kiat and A/P Lee
Bu Sung). The 2nd prize went to the team consisting
of Tan Hui Ming and Chan Choong Cheng (led by A/P
Yeo Chai Kiat, A/P Lau Chiew Tong and A/P Lee Bu Sung).
The team consisting of Ong Kok Leong, Liu Zehua, Li
Fei Fei, Lu Yi and Huang Yangfeng (led by Ast/P Ng
Wee Keong) won the Merit Award.
The Best Java Application Award
went to the team consisting of Stuti Nautiyal and
Samridhi Ganeriwalla (led by A/P Hsu Wenjing)
Their project titles were:
- Virtual Media & Entertainment
House (1st prize)
- Doctor On-Line (2nd prize)
- Agent ABCET (Merit Prize)
- Virtual Pets by Using Java (Best
Java Application)
The 1st prize winning team won
a cash award of $4000 and a plaque.
Reported in Straits Times and Lianhe
Zaobao dated 9 Dec 00
Nokia
WAP Contest (Oct
2000)
A team of four third year Computer
Engineering students, Eddy Abraham, Virat Aggarwal,
Bhatia Sakshi and V Anand, won the 2nd prize in the
Nokia WAP contest on 24th Oct 2000.
The WAP based innovative project,
Get Mobilised, was selected among more than 1400 entries
from professional developers and individual programmers.
The team won $25,000 cash reward.
The project was supervised by Assoc. Profs. Hsu Wen
Jing, Lau Chiew Tong and Vun Chan Hua.
CrayQuest
(Sept 2000)
A team from CAIS (Centre for Advanced
Information Systems) and CyberLab Ericsson, emerged
as one of the two top teams in CrayQuest 2000.
The entry, titled "Web-Based HPC
in the Internet Era: Opportunities and Challenges",
is a research about using mobile computers to access
parallel computers.
The NTU students involved were:
Liu Zehua (CE, 3rd Year), Ye Rong (M.A.Sc.), Vee Voon
Yee (Ph.D.), and under the supervision of Assoc. Prof.
Hsu Wen Jing, Director CAIS.
The industry collaborator: Dr.
Frank Reichert, Director of Cyberlab, Ericsson Singapore,
and an NTU graduate, Shah Sneha, also helped in this
effort.
They have developed a system to
let HPC (High-Performance Computing) be used by researchers
over the web and via wireless technology.
The team picked up $10,000 in prize
money.
Reported in Straits Times dated
28 Sep 00
Video-chat
with like-minded for free (Aug
2000)
Assoc Prof Lee Bu Sung has provided
a free web-based service to bring together people
sharing similar interests. They can meet online and
have a video chat. All the Net people need to do is
to plug a camera into the computer and log on to the
website at www.ivcnet.singaren.net.sg.
Reported in Straits Times dated
10 Aug 00
Best
Paper Award (Jun
2000)
A/P Nicholas Vun, supervised a
paper "Co-Verification of TCP/IP Network Stack
with Eagel" by graduate student, Mr Yeo Wee Kwong,
which won the "Best Paper" award at the
SNUG (Synopsys Users Group) Singapore Conference held
at NUS on 23 June 2000..
FaceID
Security (Mar 2000)
A team from SCE, NTU, led by Ast/P
Maylor Leung has developed a face recognition technology.
With this technology, fraudsters will be unable to
use other people's credit card numbers for online
shopping and neither can thieves withdraw money with
stolen ATM cards. Another merit of this technology
lies in its relative insensitivity to outdoor lighting
changes and shadowing effects. The other team members
include A/P Hui Siu Cheung, Mr. Gao Yongsheng (PhD
student), Miss Wang Wei and Mr. Lim Ching Hor.
Reported in Straits Times dated
1 Mar 00.
Distributed
Interactive Simulation System (Feb
2000)
Computer Engineering students,
Sim Han Seah and Zhang Jianfeng, under the supervision
of A/P Francis Lee Bu Sung and A/P Yeo Chai Kiat,
have designed a software platform called Distributed
Interactive Simulation System (DISS). DISS adds much
value to interactive applications such as IRC by incorporating
streaming video. This makes existing chatrooms more
versatile as members can see each other and enhance
their conversations with presentation software such
as Microsoft Powerpoint. This project won a merit
prize in the SingAREN Distributed Applications Competition
2000.
Reported in Computer Times dated
9 Feb 00.
iOn
(Intelligent online network) (Jan
2000)
Three computer engineering students,
Ms Sneha Shah, Mr John Gomes and Mr Jayanth Nagarajan,
under the supervision of Ast/P Clement Chia Liang
Tien, have developed a networking platform to facilitate
seeking advice and answers on the Internet or Intranet.
Called iOn (Intelligent online network), this project
'matchmake' enquirers with those who possess the answers.
According to Professor Clement Chia, iOn is a powerful
knowledge management tools for companies with global
networks if commercially deployed.
The project won the "Best Java
Application" award in the 2000 SingAREN (Singapore
Advanced Research and Education Network) and Sun Microsystems
distributed applications competition which was organised
to promote applied research in broadband and distributed
computing.
Reported in Computer Times dated
26 Jan 00.
