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If You Can Solve Problems, Can You Innovate?
Prof Yow Wei Quin noted that Singapore’s students are already strong problem-solvers, but innovation requires something more: the ability to question assumptions, identify problems that others may have overlooked, and redefine what needs to be solved.
COE system takes a hard look at itself on road to fairness
In this opinion piece, LKYCIC’s Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng discusses fairness in the COE review and the importance of meeting diverse transport needs.
Commentary: Can commuters’ fatigue from North-South Corridor construction be better managed?
LKYCIC’s Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng and Research Fellow Sarah Chan write about how to ensure continued liveability can and should be managed while Singapore continues to develop itself.
Why not exercise more? People need other people to sustain healthy living habits
In this opinion piece by LKYCIC’s Dr Belinda Yuen, Francine Chan and Dr Xin Yang, they discuss why health programmes must move towards practical skills, coaching and follow-up that help and encourage residents to sustain healthy behaviour in daily life.
Outfoxing artificial intelligence: The great human-AI face-off
In an emerging economy underpinned by tech, the age-old pursuit of academic mastery is no longer enough. SUTD President Prof Phoon Kok Kwang shares his thoughts in this opinion piece.
Can you soundproof your home against a noisy neighbour?
Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng and Assistant Professor Immanuel Koh discuss the complexity of noise disputes and the cocktail of solutions from preventive design to clearer community norms and greater engagement that could help address these situations.
Chinese: It Starts with Wanting to Speak It
Professor Yow Wei Quin shares that language is not something one first masters and then begin using; rather it is something that we gradually become proficient in through repeated, authentic interactions.
Commentary: COE debate should not be about putting cars within everyone’s reach
In this commentary by LKYCIC’s Research Assistant Professor Samuel Chng, he writes about how Singapore’s transport debate should now centre more on people instead of cars. The question cannot stop at who gets to own a car; one must also ask how public transport, point-to-point services and shared cars can provide reliable mobility across different stages of life, without turning every need for flexibility into a need for car ownership.
The hardest thing for a robot to do is become useful
In this op-ed, EPD Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara, Academic Director of Innovation PG at SUTD, discusses and shares his views on “When does an impressive robot become a useful one?”.
There must be a point to age checks online
An op-ed by SUTD Associate Professor Roy Lee called for online platforms to go beyond age checks by embedding safety into product design, involving youths in developing safeguards, and making trust a competitive priority.
