Team NUS-SoC Wins US$100,000 at International Search Engine Competition
A team that includes two recent multimedia graduates from NUS School of Computing has trumped their rivals from China, Japan, France and the United States to win the Grand Finals of The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis.
For their effort, Victor Goh Hai Kiat and Neo Shi Yong, along with their team-mate Li Haojie, walked away with the prize money of US$100,000. Shiyong and Victor pursued their graduate studies in Computer Science with SoC, with Shiyong obtaining his PhD in 2008, and Victor his MSc in 2007.
SoC Graduate Establishes Virtual Campus
Winne Soh, Computing graduate in Information Systems and co-founder of Dream Axis, has created an interactive 3D virtual world platform for NUS students to learn and network with one another.
Thanks to her, NUS students can now chill out on a beach on campus and even teleport themselves to class in a virtual setting!
For her entrepreneurship and creativity, Winne has also clinched the national IT Youth Award for 2009.
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