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Elice, a digital education practice platform, donated 300 million KRW of development funds to the School of Computing. The signing ceremony for the agreement was held at Dogok Campus in Seoul on the anniversary of the founding of Elice. Three executives, Jae Won Kim, Soo In Kim, and Jung Guk Park —
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Jeonghun Lee Staff Reporter
2021.12.18 20:03
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On November 25, KAIST announced that a new department for semiconductor engineering would be established in cooperation with Samsung Electronics, along with the construction of a new campus in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do. Both advancements followed from the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between KAIS
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Hae-Rim Kim Assistant Editor
2021.12.18 20:03
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A research team led by Professor Young Yim Doh from the Graduate School of Culture Technology investigated how the relationship between a player and a game character influences the overall satisfaction of the player with the game. The research was conducted in the context of The Last of Us Part II,
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Assem Dikhayeva Head of News Division
2021.12.18 20:03
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On December 3, KAIST announced the establishment of the Center for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences, with Professor Seonghyeon Maeng from the School of Computing appointed as its director. The opening ceremony took place on December 6 at the Humanities and Social Sciences Buildin
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Assem Dikhayeva Head of News Division
2021.12.18 20:03
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On November 27, KAIST International Student Association (KISA) held their semesterly scavenger hunt, “Amazing Race”, offline. This was one of the first in-person events that celebrated the official announcement of an offline winter semester and the heightened possibility of continuing so in Spring 2
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Andrei Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2021.12.18 20:03
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After four semesters of online classes, KAIST has finally formally released plans to resume offline classes. On November 22, KAIST announced via Portal that all of 2022 Winter semester courses will be held in-person unless absolutely unavoidable. There were only a few exceptions that would make a co
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Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2021.12.18 20:03
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Trying to extend the human lifespan is a struggle as old as civilization. Modern studies in the aging of the human body differentiate between life span, which is the time from birth until death, from health span — the period of time for which one is in good health. Extending age while minimizing ris
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Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2021.12.18 20:03
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From November, KAIST launched the Backward Administration Committee and Backward Mentoring based on the management philosophy of President Kwang Hyung Lee that values servant leadership that embodies a decentralized organizational structure. The new administrative culture emphasizes mutual understan
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Jeonghun Lee Staff Reporter
2021.11.23 16:16
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In order to make immigration processes more convenient for KAIST students, the International Scholar and Student Services (ISSS) collaborated with the Korean Immigration Office and the Ministry of Justice to provide those respective departments’ services to international students at KAIST. On Octobe
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Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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On October 28, The KAIST Global Strategy Institute hosted its 5th International Forum (GSI-IF). The forum, titled “Grand Strategic Shift under Global Techno-Geopolitical Paradigm”, revolved around strategies for rebuilding the global economy in the post-pandemic era through innovations in science an
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Assem Dikhayeva Head of News Division
2021.11.21 21:18
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On October 28, molecular diagnostic testing company Seegene started the operation of a mobile testing station on the main campus. In addition, the company donated testing reagents enough to conduct 40,000 COVID-19 tests to be used for diagnosis at the station.The unit is an extension of a research c
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Assem Dikhayeva Head of News Division
2021.11.21 21:18
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A research team led by Professor Jae-Gil Lee from the School of Computing proposed a new method for training deep neural networks (DNNs) that improves accuracy, termed Task-Agnostic Undesirable Feature dEactivation (TAUFE). TAUFE was shown to invariably outperform existing systems, specifically outp
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Hyun A Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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From November 9 to November 11, KAIST event preparation committee Imagination Effect held the 2021 Student Cultural Festival. Until last semester, regulations due to the spike in COVID-19 cases both nationwide and on campus restricted the scope of activities that could be organized for the annual fe
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Hae-Rim Kim Assistant Editor
2021.11.21 21:18
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On October 14, Korean soprano Sumi Jo was appointed as a visiting distinguished professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT). Professor Jo, known for winning the 1992 Grammy Awards for the best opera recording along with other prestigious international competitions, will join the KA
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Hae-Rim Kim Assistant Editor
2021.11.21 21:18
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As of October 23, the Korean government announced that the vaccination completion rate in the country surpassed 70%, reaching the proposed standard for a phased transition back to regular life. In alignment with the launch of the “Living with COVID-19” policy by the government, KAIST established Pha
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Jeonghun Lee Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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Emeritus Professor Jun-ho Oh made headlines in 2015 by developing the humanoid robot ‘DRC-Hubo’, which won the 2015 DARPA Challenge. In 2011, he created his startup called “Rainbow Robotics”, of which he is now the CTO. During a ceremony at KAIST on October 25, he donated 20% of the shares of Rainbo
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Justin Jae Young Kim Staff Reporter
2021.11.21 21:18
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A research team led by Professor Junyong Noh from the Graduate School of Culture Technology developed a deep learning-based unsupervised approach for facial retargeting in animation. The paper was accepted to the 28th and 29th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications that will take p
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Assem Dikhayeva Head of News Division
2021.10.26 18:26
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On September 29, the Academic Registrar’s Team announced major changes in regulations regarding the academic leave of absence. Starting from the current semester, there will no longer be a limit on the number of leaves that a student can take. This decision was made to provide students with more opp
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Assem Dikhayeva Head of News Division
2021.10.26 18:26
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A research team mainly led by Professor Jae Myoung Suh from the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering has developed a spatiotemporal method of identifying tissue-specific secretory proteins. The researchers have detected liver secretory proteins in the blood plasma of insulin-resistant
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ChaeYeon Ryu Junior Staff Reporter
2021.10.26 18:26
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On September 14, the KAIST Student & Minority Human Rights Committee (HRC) was met with controversy after the first lecture of the annual KAIST Human Rights Week was held. The controversy spread mainly through the online student community on Everytime after it was revealed that the invited lecturer
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Hae-Rim Kim Assistant Editor
2021.10.26 18:26