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16 Jul 2010
Singapore, 16 July - Groundbreaking of A*STAR’s Experimental Power Grid Centre (EPGC) paves the way for cutting-edge R&D to develop Singapore as a ‘living laboratory’ for smart grid solutions. Four companies, namely, Rolls Royce, Vestas, SP PowerGrid and CEI Contract Manufacturing entered into strategic partnerships with A*STAR today.
16 Jul 2010
A database released by RIKEN and Keio University researchers has information on over three thousand phosphorylated proteins and phosphorylation sites in rice which opens new doors in the study and engineering of plants.
12 Jul 2010
Mexico- DDT use was eliminated with no increase in malaria, Guatemala - Chagas disease has been addressed through improvements to house construction, Amazon - Mercury poisoning was halted, by finding alternatives to the slash and burn agriculture, Malawi - Children’s health has been improved by growing legumes instead of corn.
12 Jul 2010
Partners in Health (PIH), Canada’s IDRC and the I-TECH program (University of Washington), is working with the Haitian Ministry of Health to support the strengthening of Electronic Medical Records interoperability in Haiti.
12 Jul 2010
OPINION: In a May 30 interview on a weekly public affairs show hosted by journalist and author Fareed Zakaria on CNN, Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates mentioned the need "to reorder the priorities of the innovation system" in making changes in the healthcare sector.
30 Jun 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has made a head start in Medical Biometrics researches, with the development of several state-of-the-art authentication and medical diagnosis tools based on the concept of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
28 Jun 2010
Indigenous people in western Kenya have relied on the mystical abilities of the Nganyi rainmakers to predict the weather for generations.
28 Jun 2010
“Prince of Songkla University” was granted a petty patent for a biodiesel test process using only a microwave oven as the main equipment, making it economical in terms of money and time (only 15 minutes for the result to come out).
26 Jun 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) showcased an array of innovations which range from stem cell research to energy-saving device and RFID technology. These breakthroughs have impressed overseas audience at the 38th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in Switzerland.
26 Jun 2010
Rome, Italy, 24 June. The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome) announces today that TWAS has received the prestigious international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for helping to build scientific capacity in the developing world.
26 Jun 2010
OPINION - It was last autumn that I got interested in that vehicle. One day, I suddenly developed a symptom that was beyond my receptive threshold, just like hay fever.
15 Jun 2010
A senior delegation led by Professor Timothy W. Tong, President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), has recently visited Beijing to explore collaborations with the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
08 Jun 2010
Tokyo, 8 June - The world’s most powerful beam of heavy ions has enabled Japanese scientists and their international collaborators to uncover 45 new neutron-rich radioisotopes in a region of the nuclear chart never before explored.
27 May 2010
Tokyo, 27 May - A research team at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research organization, has uncovered the first ever evidence of nuclear gene transfer from host to parasite plant species. The discovery, reported in Science this week, hints at a greater role for horizontal gene transfer in plant evolution.
27 May 2010
More than 300 leading experts in geospatial information science (GIS) from over 20 countries and regions are gathering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from 26 to 28 May to participate in the Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science.
24 May 2010
A team of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) researchers have produced a device based on the concept of Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) which can accelerate the process of marine data collection and minimize manpower.
24 May 2010
TOKYO, 24 May - The Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering (BASE), a division of RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institute, is holding its first ever International Rational Genome Design Contest (GenoCon) on the semantic web between May 25 and September 30.
21 May 2010
On March 18–19, RIKEN held its second symposium on biosupercomputing in downtown Tokyo, focusing on new directions in life science research made possible by high-performance supercomputing
20 May 2010
PolyU computing experts have successfully developed a Digital Video Signals Optimization System which can be applied for digital camera, HDTV and other consumer electronics, enabling consumers to enjoy higher-quality digital images and videos...
20 May 2010
PolyU and its business partner EuAuto Technology Ltd are proud for sealing a landmark deal today (17 May) with US auto maker GreenTech Automotive (GTA). This collaboration will take the city's first home-grown electric vehicle, which is jointly developed by EuAuto and PolyU, to the US market.
20 May 2010
Noor Aznimah Abdul Aziz, Siti Salwa Salleh, Daud Mohammad and Megawati Omar of UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia, studied the conventional Jaccard Distance performance to recognize shapes with and without pre processing tasks.
17 May 2010
The National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has received global recognition as a centre of excellence that provides an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) curriculum that is not only holistic but systematic as well.
14 May 2010
Nanotechnology is technology for the complete control of materials in the extremely microscopic field of nanometers (1 nanometer = 10-9 meters). Many unknown areas still exist in this field of manipulating materials on a scale that is close to an atomic level.
14 May 2010
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Private University Academic Research Development Promotion Project is a project to ensure private universities become a foundation for research and development and a pillar for promoting development.
14 May 2010
The essence of the hardware design for TWENDY-ONE is “the softness of machines.” By adding softness to the skin and joints of the arms and trunk, it is possible to protect people from the shock of the unexpected conflict with the robot.
14 May 2010
I am specialized in ergonomics and am focusing my research on the next generation media, which is currently not yet prevalent but have a potential in the near future. When I was an undergraduate student, I undertook a research evaluating 3D images from the human perspective for the first time.
14 May 2010
Just over 25 years ago, computer development was centered around hardware with little importance placed on software. The dominant way of thinking in Japan was that if hardware was produced, software would naturally follow. But I thought this was the wrong line of thinking.
14 May 2010
In my early student days at School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, I put hard work into my theoretical economics and international finance studies in order to become an elite businessman (laughing). But at the time of graduating, new jobs were scarce and I couldn’t find employment.
05 May 2010
This application is for the “surgical visual field enhancer apparatus”
04 May 2010
Mongolia — an isolated country sandwiched between Siberia and China — has become a pioneer in using the Internet as a tool for development, through a lasting partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that continues today.
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Giants in history
Sir Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry Vishveshwarayya (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962) is widely regarded as India’s most outstanding engineer. In a career that spanned almost his entire life, Vishveshwarayya played a pivotal role in several engineering projects, including designing the Krishnarajasagara dam that is still the source of irrigation and drinking water for parts of Karnataka today.
Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) pioneered the use of optical fibres to transmit images, and founded several optical technology companies. Born in Punjab, India, he worked at a local optical instruments factory before moving to London for PhD studies at Imperial College. There, he devised a flexible fibrescope to convey images along bundles of glass fibres.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer who was President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999.
A Japanese surgeon, Tetsuzo Akutsu (20 August 1922 – 9 August 2007) built the first artificial heart capable of keeping an animal alive.
Fazlur Rahman Khan (3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who invented the tube principle, which formed the basis for modern skyscraper design.
Lin Lanying (7 February 1918 – 4 March 2003) was a Chinese material engineer remembered for her contributions to the field of semiconductor and aerospace materials. Lanying was born into a family who did not believe in educating girls and she was not allowed to go to school.
Gregorio Y. Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) was a Filipino engineer and physicist best remembered for inventing the first two-way video telephone. Zara’s video telephone invention enabled the caller and recipient to see each other while conversing, laying the foundation for video-conferencing