Siggraph 08 demo reported in Sing Tao Daily Los Angeles

A couple of weeks back, during the week of 10th August, I was in Los Angeles showing a demo of a programming interface and methodology for robots using touch. This is a project in collaboration with NEC in Japan and was developed on top of their robotic platform, PaPeRo.

News link here: http://www.singtao.com/oversea/0813ao42.html


Mr Peter Ye from Sing Tao daily was at Siggraph, and interviewed me on the project that i was showing. According to him, Sing Tao Daily is the largest Chinese newspaper in North America with 3 major offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. With its headquarters base in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Daily has an extensive global network. They have offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Europe and Australia.

Well, not bad, i think :) At least Chinese people living abroad get to know about this project, and hopefully be inspired to do research in similar field.
Anyway, thank you Peter!

Also, a picture he took of me with PaPeRo-san.

By the way, i will give a more detailed account of what happened in the Siggraph 08 conference, and more pictures!

Invited for Youth Cultural Technology Forum in KAIST, Korea

I am invited for the prestigious Young Investigators' Forum on Culture Technology (YCT) this year (http://ct.kaist.ac.kr/yct2008/). The Forum is going to be held in Daejoen, South Korea, from Aug 22th to 23th, 2008. YCT is a highly interactive and intensive workshop for discussing the future of Culture Technology, a term proposed by Professor Kwang-yun Wohn, the Dean of the Graduate School of Culture Technology(GSCT) at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST). 'Culture Technology' covers a wide range of research fields on digital media and related technologies, interaction, design and theory, which are gaining importance in every corner of our surroundings and culture. As a unique and one of a kind workshop that invites advanced graduate students around the world, the YCT aims to facilitate discussion on Culture Technology among young researchers. The program includes a keynote speech, a tour of the seven different labs at GSCT, presentations on Culture Technology by the participants, discussions, excursions, and opportunities to share ideas in an international atmosphere.

Only a dozen of graduate students from all around the world who have insightful and instigating topics to bring to serious discussion were selected. These participants came from different parts of the world, comprising of Australia, China, Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom and U.S.A. The forum fully sponsored the travel expenses and accommodations for all the participants.

The best thing is the flights are fully paid and they give you allowance too!

Appearance in My Paper (Chinese Singapore paper)

Today's My Paper has shown a report about the recent Keio - NUS initiative to set up a research center in Singapore. The research center will be called CUTE which stands for Connective Ubiquitous Technology for Embodiments, and is initiated by the PhD supervisor Prof Adrian Cheok.

Interestingly, a picture of me showing my previous research project, Poultry Internet was selected as one of the projects highlighted in the report! That was more than 2 years ago.

But still, what a moment that a student like me can be proud of :D