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Residents can have outsized impact on their community through local action: Social workers
Ordinary citizens can make an outsized impact in their community just by getting involved at a local level, panellists from the social sector said at a dialogue on Monday. The conference was organised by the Tote Board, the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities and the Institute of Policy Studies.
Close to 30% of SUTD faculty are among the top 2% world’s most cited scientists
This ranking is compiled by United State’s Stanford University, and is based on bibliometric information from the international citation database Scopus. In 2022, the list consisted of more than 210,000 researchers from 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields from around the world.
Adaptation(s) at The Pratt House on Governor’s Island, co-curated by SO – IL’s Jing Liu, is a laboratory of future urban living
Adaptation(s) is in collaboration with Singapore University of Technology and Design, The Trust for Governor’s Island, Pace University, and Henk Ovink, the founder of Rebuild By Design and former special envoy for Water Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Schools testing Singapore-made transformer robots to help teach robotics
SUTD is piloting the use of a reconfigurable robot called “Smorphi” in Northland Primary School to get students excited about robotics. If it goes well, the technology could become part of robotics curriculum elsewhere.
AI Defeats Human ‘Street Fighter’ Champion Using ‘Phase-Change’ Memory—What Is It?
This technology centered on teaching the AI to understand complicated movements and the game design, with the machine’s deep learning, exposing the D-PPO algorithm of Street Fighter Champion Edition II.
The happiness and humour of the elderly
When you think of the elderly, does the image of a grumpy old man complaining about his children getting in the way, or a lonely old lady with a stern expression pop up in your mind? This stereotype often appears in videos, movies and pictures.
Education – next frontier of Singapore-Indonesian cooperation?
The city-state’s universities can participate in Indonesia’s huge economic growth opportunity by collaborating with their Indonesian counterparts
Carlos Bañon Uses AI To Redefine Sustainable Practices In Architecture
The architect and founder of AIRLAB breaks new ground with digital processes and advanced manufacturing.
Singapore Unveils Bilingual Game App for Dementia
The Singapore University of Technology and Design has introduced Ami, short for Advancing Mental Invigoration developed by Associate Professor Yow Wei Quin and her team; which aims to leverage gamification to harness the cognitive benefits of bilingualism or multilingualism in the elderly.
Singapore Archifest 2023: New book weaves stories about food, people and places
Get hands-on at Archicraft, a series of fun, creative crafting workshops run by students of Singapore University of Technology and Design’s Architecture and Sustainable Design Pillar.
