Residents can have outsized impact on their community through local action: Social workers 24 Oct 2023 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. LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS Announced the Inaugural Participation of LIGHTSPEED Singapore in Gamescom Asia 2023 23 Oct 2023 LIGHTSPEED also announced that through AI Singapore's 100 Experiments Programme, in partnership with SUTD, it will be developing ML-based technologies, featuring a project dedicated to building Text-to-Motion Machine Learning Model. Young Scientist Award at 2023 President’s Science & Technology Awards: Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria 23 Oct 2023 For his outstanding work in multimodal conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language processing (NLP), Assistant Professor Soujanya Poria received the Young Scientist Award at the President’s Science & Technology Awards ceremony on 20 October 2023. Predicting potential problems of persistent plastic particulates 20 Oct 2023 Together with collaborators from China, Prof Yang Hui Ying looked to utilising modern machine learning techniques to overcome difficulties involved in modelling the environmental dynamics and the long-term ageing of microplastics. Close to 30% of SUTD faculty are among the top 2% world’s most cited scientists 19 Oct 2023 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 18 Oct 2023 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 17 Oct 2023 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? 15 Oct 2023 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 14 Oct 2023 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. 1 2 next