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On the back of two successful WoW: In Conversation online sessions, NUS Alumni Relations organised the WoW: Ignite session on 7 September 2022 to inspire women in the NUS community to expand their horizons, enhance ties and networks, unlock their potential, and scale greater heights.
Inaugural Tembusu Conversations: Artificial Intelligence and the Great Leap into an Age of Plenitude
Dr Lee Kai-Fu, CEO of Sinovation Ventures and former President of Google China, envisions the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to be a plenitude.
From 1 to 6 August 2022, the exclusive capacity-building programme brought together high-level national cybersecurity officials to acquire interdisciplinary expertise in overseeing cyber and digital security policy-making, strategies, and operations effectively.
In the age of big data, there has been growing interest in how journalism can leverage data to deliver meaningful new stories. What has emerged is data journalism – the process of drawing information from datasets and writing stories and creating visualisations based on them. Singapore has not been the exception to this development: during […]
Temenggong and NUS team up for first Mid-Autumn Festival gathering to promote cross-cultural exchange, as reported in Lianhe Zaobao.
International Literacy Day takes place on September 8 every year to raise awareness and concern for literacy problems that exist within our own local communities as well as globally. We are all digital citizens. With the influx of information being shared online, digital platforms have become an extension of the physical social space we occupy […]
Dr Hong Renyi (NUS Communications and New Media) talks about the relevance of passion in his new monograph, Passionate Work, positioning it as an effect that enables workers to endure the precarious and stressful conditions of contemporary work culture.
A story about what the artefacts unearthed on Fort Canning by Emeritus Professor John Miksic (NUS Southeast Asian Studies) and alumna Associate Professor Goh Geok Yian (NUS Southeast Asian Studies, ’95), who is Director of the History Major Program at Nanyang Technological University, tell us about Singapore’s history.
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s Assistant Professor Kung Chien-Wen (NUS Department of History) published Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s in March 2022 with Cornell University Press, as part of the ‘Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’ series by Columbia University. The book […]
Professor Wang Gungwu and two FASS alumni – Yeow Kai Chai and Wong Koi Tet – won in three separate categories, and Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo was presented with the SBC Achievement Award at the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize ceremony last week.