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May highlights
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D.W. Cha, H.S. Hwang, J.Y. Kim
2014.05.28 21:33
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On April 17, Professor Chun-Taek Rim and his research team from the Department of Nuclear & Quantum Engineering announced that they had successfully transferred 209 Watts (W) wirelessly over 5 meters (m) using dipole coil resonance system (DCRS). With this amount of power, 40 smartphones can be charged, four fans can be operated simultaneously, or even a large light emitting diode (LED) television (TV) can be turned on.
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2014.05.28 21:29
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The KAIST library invited the Embassy of the United States (U.S.) to introduce the American Center Korea (ACK), Window on America, and the EducationUSA service. The purpose of the program was to aid KAIST students in understanding the United States through different media.
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Hyunseung Hwang
2014.05.28 21:27
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Ligand-protein interaction plays a crucial role in regulating biological processes. The two basic steps of ligand-protein interactions are binding and dissociation, and these steps determine the binding affinity of a ligand to its receptor. Through the binding and dissociation of ligands to proteins such as enzymes, antibodies, and peptide hormones, essential biological functions are regulated through mechanisms that include enzyme catalysis, immunological responses, and signal transduction. Thus, understanding the molecular mechanisms helps gain insight into how protein-ligand interactions work to control biological processes.
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Jiwon Kim Staff Reporter
2014.05.28 21:26
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The Korea Office of Postal Service at KAIST, located between Cafeteria (N11) and the Undergraduate Library (N10), is set to close by July 1. This closing is a part of an overall trend of closing 114 post offices on college campuses across the nation, which includes Chungnam National University and many others in the Chungcheong province. The main reason for closing is the decreasing mailing volume at post offices as technology continues to make paper mails obsolete. This led to reduced profits for the post offices, so the Korea Office of Postal Service decided to close its branches on college campuses in order to reduce operational costs.
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Seungho Lee
2014.05.28 21:23
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After the partnership agreement last October between KAIST and Coursera, an educational technology company providing massive online open courses (MOOCs), KAIST has officially opened three courses on Coursera. The courses from KAIST professors are now accessible via the KAIST webpage within the Coursera website (http://coursera.org/KAIST).
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Seung Hyun Suh
2014.05.28 21:22
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The 2014 Spring Festival at KAIST has been delayed after a vote by the Central Executive Committee. The Central Executive Committee is composed of student heads from each department’s student councils. The festival, instead, will take place during the fall semester. The delay is a result of the nationwide trend of colleges and secondary schools cancelling festivals in mourning of the Sewol ferry disaster. This was followed by another recent tragic incident at KAIST involving a student’s suicide.
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Seungho Lee
2014.05.28 21:20
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On May 9, Startup KAIST invited former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Vice President Youngil Lee of Com2uS Corporation to give his lecture “Frustration and Retake” to explain what frustration and retake is, and provide tips on founding a business. This lecture is a part of the “Entrepreneurship Lunch Talk” series, which is a program organized by Startup KAIST inviting experienced lecturers to give talks on his or her experiences and guide students who are interested in starting their own business.
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2014.05.28 21:19
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On April 23, KAIST and Seoul National University (SNU) signed an academic collaboration agreement to cooperate in the sharing of education, research, and academic information. About 30 staff and faculty from both universities, including KAIST President Sung Mo Kang and SNU President Yeon Cheon Oh, attended the event. With the agreement, KAIST and SNU will strengthen cooperation in the exchange of faculty and students, joint academic credit recognition, joint research and academic symposiums, and sharing of academic information.
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DongJae Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2014.05.28 21:18
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Professor Kwangjo Kim, from the Department of Computer Science, was appointed to represent the Republic of Korea at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)-affiliated Technical Committee 11 (TC-11), for his contribution and research in the field of international information security and cryptography. The IFIP is a non-government, non-profit, multinational organization currently representing over 500,000 members in information technology societies from 56 countries and regions. It was established in 1960 with the support of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and is the world-leading organization in information and communications technologies and sciences.
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Dongwon Cha
2014.05.28 21:14
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Professor Ilkwon Oh and doctoral candidate Jae Hwan Kim from the Division of Ocean System Engineering under the School of Mechanical Aerospace and Systems Engineering, working in coordination with Doctor Hyuneui Lim, the head of the Nano-Biomimetic Research Lab at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, succeeded in developing an artificial muscle that is durable and floatable, and has an effective operating period ten times longer than current artificial muscles.
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Dongwon Cha
2014.05.28 21:12
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Telemedicine legislations in foreign countries vary by nations. In the United States (U.S.), doctors must obtain full licenses to practice telemedicine for patients in other states. This means that doctors who want to serve patients in multiple states must follow the legal procedures for licensure in all those states, which requires high fees and even interviews. Similar rules apply to Europe. The European Union (EU) does not have the power to enforce legislation to every state. So the individual states in the EU have different laws. For example, Croatia has notoriously insufficient legislation regarding telemedicine. This highlights the need for global standards regarding telemedicine. Laws are still being discussed and developed in Europe.
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Seungho Lee
2014.05.28 00:47
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The government’s plan to allow telemedicine has been met by vehement opposition, most notably from Korean doctors and the Korean Medical Association (KMA). KMA has claimed that there are three main problems with telemedicine, the first being whether or not proper medical care can be provided. When a doctor conducts a face-to-face medical examination, they use their sense of sight, sound, and touch to diagnose a patient. However, with telemedicine, doctors will have to rely on a computer monitor that may provide poor image resolution or sound quality. Additionally, telemedical devices may malfunction or patients may fail to use them properly, resulting in faulty data. If misdiagnosis results due to such factors, it becomes ambiguous whether the doctor should be held accountable. KMA also pointed out that an examination could become much more time-consuming. For example, if a patient were to suffer from a skin infection, he or she would have to setup a computer, make an appointment, connect to a doctor, and if there is an infection, take a picture of the infected area and send it over the Internet, which could take more than 20 minutes. A follow-up direct examination would cost the patient even more time and money.
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Jiwon Kim
2014.05.28 00:41
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While every April in KAIST is the month of cherry blossoms and strawberries, this time, it was more special: lights were shone upon cherry blossoms and unmanned vehicles delivered strawberries. The cherry blossom festival and strawberry parties were hosted by the College of Engineering and the Undergraduate Student Council as a part of Happy KAIST 2014. The KAIST Herald interviewed Professor Seung Bin Park, the director in charge of Happy KAIST 2014.
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Jisoo Kim
2014.04.20 00:40
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Some KAIST students may think that they are the only ones suffering from personal information breach from financial, telecommunication, and Internet companies. But while KAIST as a university has not suffered from a major breach, some foreign universities have. The breached information include social security numbers (SSN), academic grades, ID, passwords, email addresses, names, and phone numbers.
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DongJae Lee
2014.04.20 00:39
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Have you ever thought about the impact of both spoken and written words? Or why something you might have said was misconstrued and considered offensive, though totally unintended? Such experience is not uncommon, and it happens to us in our everyday lives, but most notoriously to politicians in a message directly and indirectly to the public. Their messages are torn apart in search of the underlying “true” meaning, headlining newspapers and other forms of media, all because their original message failed to deliver.
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Gyuri Bae
2014.04.20 00:36
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In light of the recent information leakage by three Korean banks, Kookmin, Nonghyup, and Lotte, the general public, including students, have become wary about the vulnerability of their personal information. Though many are not aware of it, KAIST students are relatively safe to such information leakages. Since KAIST is a government-funded institute, information is not usually disclosed to outsiders unless the school is legally obliged to do so or is formally requested by organizations, such as scholarship institutions, to reveal students’ profiles. Even at such requests, the school follows due process to assess any potential danger in providing the information, which is one of the reasons that there have not been any reported leakages in KAIST.
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Chonghyuk Song
2014.04.20 00:33
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On April 8, Doctor Philip Campbell gave a special lecture on “Challenges for High-Impact Journals and Those Who Publish in Them.” The lecture was held from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Fusion Hall of KAIST Institute (KI) Building (E4), and President Sung Mo Kang gave welcoming speech. Many KAIST students and faculty attended the lecture.
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Ah Hyun Kim
2014.04.20 00:30
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While the credit card data leakage crisis concerned mostly the average Korean taxpayer, college students, fledgling members of the domestic economy, are also at risk. College students are at risk of compromising their financial information, since many universities require student identification (ID) cards to be registered in conjunction with a bank account, increasing the risk of data leakage. Also, as the forerunners of adapting to the rapid changes in the information technology (IT) industry, college students have indulged themselves in a wide variety of social networking services (SNS), and in doing so, have irrecoverably exposed themselves to potential invasion of privacy. Furthermore, some colleges in the United States (US) are considering the possibility of utilizing data mining techniques to satisfy a variety of tasks, such as improving campus security and providing a comprehensive academic system, at the expense of compromising student privacy.
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Min Kyu Choi
2014.04.20 00:30
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The research team led by Professor Daejun Chang and Professor Paal Bergan from the Division of Ocean Systems Engineering in cooperation with POSCO developed a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank with a storage capacity 20 times bigger than those of existing tanks.
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Seung Hyun Suh
2014.04.20 00:29