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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab recently came out with a mobile app that uses the smartphone camera to detect crucial signs of heart arrhythmia by capturing certain facial signs of the person that the application is being used on. The application uses Cardiio, a program from a previous app developed by the group. Cardiio, which shares its name with the Media Lab spinout t
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Hyunwoo Shin Junior Staff
2017.05.03 22:27
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Recently, spinach has shown the potential to be used differently to potentially save countless lives of people with critical health conditions. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been carrying out extensive research in the field of regenerative science, aiming to devise a method to create organs and tissues that can substitute human organs. Recently, a biomedical team at the WPI success
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Hyunwoo Shin Junior Staff
2017.05.03 22:26
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On March 16, the Times Higher Education’s (THE) 2017 Asia University rankings were released. KAIST has achieved eighth out of other prestigious universities in Asia, which is the highest position for universities in Korea for this year.After separating out from the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings in 2010, the THE rankings have been publishing annual ranking reports of research-intensive u
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Kun-Woo Song Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:22
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On March 26, during the undergraduate student representative meeting, KAIST’s Undergraduate Student Council Auditing Committee submitted a job inspection report on the Undergraduate Student Dormitory Council (USDC). The report revealed a series of actions by the USDC that shocked the KAIST community.Through the report, the auditing committee drew five main malfeasances by the USDC: misuse of
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Kun-Woo Song Staff Reporter
2017.05.03 22:14
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A collaboration effort between Professor Hee-Sung Park from the Department of Chemistry and Professor Chan Bae Park from Ajou University produced a new technology that allows for the expansion of the genetic code of house mice (Mus musculus) through the integration of unnatural amino acids at a target protein using the regulation of acetylation. The technique will contribute to the recognition and elimination of aberrant cellular proteins that lead to severe diseases such as diabetes, dementia, and cancer.
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Juhoon Lee Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 22:33
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Thomas Jefferson once famously — and bitterly — declared, “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Though stated when the then President of the United States (POTUS) had grown fatigued by the incessant news of his personal pursuits and rumors during his candidacy, the quote had been resurrected with vigor in response to “The Great Flood” of fake news and distrust in the media. Remarkably, the wariness towards media has been skewed disproportionately towards the traditional media forms, while the social media networks have surged in both popularity from its users.
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Juhoon Lee Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 22:29
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A collaborative effort between Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) has led to the discovery of how the human antibody C10 prevents Zika virus infection, further pushing the quest for a cure of the virus that has plagued the world in recent years.The Zika virus first “docks” on the cell; the virus then initiates its “fusion” process
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Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 20:05
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Professor Kwangjo Kim of the School of Computing has been selected recently as a 2017 Fellow for the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). A non-profit organization that is dedicated to cryptology and its applications, the IACR has annually selected up to six fellows from its members who either made great contributions to cryptologic research or contributed and promoted academ
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2017.03.30 13:21
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On December 1, the KAIST Times hosted a conference with Yeong Deuk Cho and Sungjin Han, the candidates for the next Undergraduate Student Council (USC) president and vice president positions respectively, to hold a platform for discussion on their policies. All students were invited to participate in this conference, whether to ask questions or to simply listen to the candidates’ stances and
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2017.03.30 13:17
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At the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) World Congress, which took place in the Netherlands from October 10 to 14 and was attended by more than 2,000 participants, KAIST researchers Seungsoo Lee, Changhoon Yoon, Jaehyun Nam, and Professor Seungwon Shin of the School of Electrical Engineering were awarded the Best SDN Solution Showcase Award for their work on leading the SDN security project DELTA
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:36
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On October 25, KAIST President Sung-Mo Kang and Technical University Denmark (DTU) Senior Vice President Martin P. Bendsoe signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Embassy of Denmark in Seoul. The MOU highlights exchanging students and researchers through startup programs, in addition to strengthening the intervarsity collaboration in education and research. The signing took place during
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:32
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On October 31, Nature Communications published a paper titled “ Exploiting the speckle correlation scattering matrix for a compact reference-free holographic image sensor”, written by Professor YongKeun Park and graduate student KyeoReh Lee, both from the Biomedical Optics Laboratory at KAIST.In the paper, the authors describe a novel method to build holographic image sensors with the
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:26
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The Korean people had witnessed how Prosecutor Young-ryeol Lee appeared on television to pinpoint the nation’s incumbent president as an accomplice in an unprecedentedly controversial corruption scandal involving Soon-sil Choi. President Park’s status since then is “criminal suspect”.Around the corner lie pending investigation results, but President Park’s political s
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:21
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Campus France is organizing the 2016 Etudier en France Fair as a rendezvous occasion for students looking to study in France and coordinators of French higher education institutions. Translated as “Study in France”, the name of the fair says it all; organizers hope that participants “gain valuable information about what it is like to study in France.”Scheduled from 1 p.m. t
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:13
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We are at the peak of inflated expectations about drones. So many people are hyped up, in one way or another, about what drones are capable of delivering to us: pizzas and burritos, missiles and railguns, fun and thrill, political debates and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) meetings, etc to the point that how drones themselves have been brought to us is mostly overlooked. Now, having explore
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:05
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On September 22, Professor Hasok Chang was invited to give a seminar at the School of Humanities and Social Science Building (N4) at 5:30 p.m. As the first in a series of Science and Technology Policy (STP) Colloquium seminars scheduled this semester, the seminar by Professor Chang was titled “Voltaic batteries and technoscience in the 19th century” and was attended by about 40 profess
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.30 00:02
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On September 28, the School of Electrical Engineering (EE) has officially announced its initiative, ambitiously titled “EE Co-op” program at the school building (E3-2) at 7 p.m. EE Co-op is the school’s revamped, skill-set- oriented internship program. Professor Yong Hoon Lee outlined the specifics of the implementation at the EE Co- op Information Session attended by fifty under
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:53
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The 2017 KAIST Grand Challenge 30 Project is open to submissions until October 31. KAIST has organized this initiative to encourage researchers to tackle globally problematic issues and study fundamental and basic sciences for an extended period of time up to 30 years, without any mid-project evaluation of the “fruits” of the research being pursued. Full-time employees of KAIST with mo
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:52
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Given the variety of policies adopted by different countries, one may be inclined to think that Korea is in dire need of relaxing the progressive rate it imposes on electricity consumption, especially for households. However, to students at KAIST, where electricity consumption at dormitories comes at no additional cost apart from the fxed monthly dormitory fees, it is apparent that an impetuous re
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Wan Ju Kang Senior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:47
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The rooster has awoken a new epoch; while Korea awaits the eventual election of a different leader, KAIST has led the march towards a neoteric age with the election of the 16th President of KAIST Sung-Chul Shin.
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Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 23:43