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¡¤[News] Mandatory AI Classes Cause Commotion |
KAIST President Sung-Chul Shin has revealed a plan for mandatory artificial intelligence (AI) classes starting for freshmen entering in 2018. |
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¡¤[News] Spreading the Kindness |
On September 27, the KAIST Global Leadership Center held the founding ceremony for the KAIST Global Leadership Corps at the Creative Learning Building (E11). |
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¡¤[News] Wearable Solar Electricity Generators |
Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) School of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a new wearable solar thermoelectric generator (W-STEG) in their recent study. |
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¡¤[News] A New Way to Make ¡°Soft Robots¡± |
A team of biochemical researchers at Johns Hopkins University has sparked the possibility of creating ¡°soft¡± robots by using DNA sequences to cause shape-changing in hydrogels. |
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¡¤[News] Seeing Double: New Nanoprinting Technique |
University of Glasgow plasmonics researchers have developed a technique that could prove a secure, stable alternative to dye-based printing for specialised purposes. |
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¡¤[News] Flexible Origami-Inspired Robots |
At Case Western Reserve University, Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Kiju Lee has created a soft robot that may one day be used in surgery, assembly lines, or even space. |
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¡¤[News] USC-KISA Merger Fails |
Word spread around campus about a merger between the Undergraduate Student Council (USC) and the KAIST International Students Association (KISA) being worked on behind the scenes. Such a merger could have closed the gap and broken the status quo. Unfortunately, the merger, alongside the possibility of a united student community, has fallen through. |
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¡¤[News] Antidotes May Be Too Late |
Koreans have returned to buying sterilizers, menstrual pads, and eggs since all three crises have reached the headlines. Unbeknownst to most, however, the arduous investigations on and legal battles against the companies that propagated the misuse of harmful chemicals in their products continue. |
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¡¤[News] Running On Egg Shells |
The sanitary pad crisis had yet to even staunch the outpour of its problems before another scandal whisked Korea and the world into chaos. On July 19, the Belgian government reported the first instances of insecticide-contaminated eggs. |
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¡¤[News] Sanitary Pads: When Necessities Become Threats |
Last March, the Women¡¯s Environmental Alliance announced the troubling results of a toxicity analysis on commercial sanitary pads. They had conducted a fund to finance this investigation in response to the growing suspicions of users of a specific brand of sanitary pads who had problems with their menstruation. |
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¡¤[News] Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire |
In 2011, hospital records showed some of the first deaths due to the chemicals in humidifier sterilizers. Oxy Reckitt Benckiser (Oxy RB), the Korean division of the British-based company Reckitt Benckiser, has been the main target of the scandal as the market leader of humidifier sterilizers sold in Korea since 1994. |
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¡¤[News] KAIST Wins RASC-AL Best In Theme Award |
A student team from the KAIST Department of Aerospace Engineering won Best in Theme in the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition hosted by NASA. |
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¡¤[News] Neuroscience-Inspired AI Mimics Human Brain |
On September 13, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Christopher Summerfield from the University of Oxford gave a seminar on his research regarding neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence (AI). |
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¡¤[News] KAIST Meditation Research Center in Plans |
In accordance with the industrial trend known as the ¡°Fourth Industrial Revolution¡±, KAIST has declared its plans to establish the Meditation Research Center by June 2018. |
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¡¤[News] An Advance Towards All-Liquid Repellent Surfaces |
Fabrication technology that may enable a more economical production of liquid-repellent surfaces was recently developed by a research team led by Professor Shin-Hyun Kim and Professor Hee Tak Kim from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. |
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¡¤[News] Using Turtles for Robot Locomotive Tasks |
An animal-robot hybrid system applies animal locomotive abilities to robotic tasks, which ¡°could provide an alternative solution to some of the limitations of conventional mobile robot systems in various fields, and could also act as a useful interaction system for the behavioral sciences.¡± |
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¡¤[News] Combining Drugs to Treat Liver Cancer |
Liver cancer ranks as one of the most common cancers in the world. A closer inspection on this type of cancer in South Korea reveals a significant overrepresentation of the disease. |
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¡¤[News] Ultra-flexible Wearable Displays |
Professor Kyung Cheol Choi¡¯s research team has successfully integrated fabrics into organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to create ultra-flexible wearable displays. |
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