I²R - January 2005 Q1 Issue

January 2005 Q1 Issue

New Year greetings to all! We are pleased to announce that @work turns 1 this January!

We take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous support in making @work a success. We will continue to work with your feedback in bringing more new information on work in I²R in the up-coming issues.

In HotNews@work, we have a special highlight on EuroSingapore2005 which will be held on 27-28 January. Organised with the European Commission (EC), this event aims to enhance scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and Singapore in the ICT field (Information and Communication Technologies). It is open to all European and Singapore organizations keen on exploring research collaboration. Do check out the event’s website at http://www.eurosingapore-it.org/. We look forward to your participation.

In Technology@work, we are pleased to share with you:
Brainy Communicator, see how brain machine interface technology can help to enhance communication for physically disabled. Read also how EVITA-RAP, an intuitive, robust and extensible web-based voice application development tool suite can be customized for all kind of applications. Finally, see how Radio-over-Fibre (ROF) technology helps transfer high data rate.

In our Industry Development column, we would like to share with you a success story on T-Up program through a face-to-face interview with our secondee.

We welcome your feedback and look forward to including news of collaborations with your organization in future e-newsletters. If you are interested in any of our forthcoming events, do sign-up for them early.

Our website, http://www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg, is a rich repository of information and we invite you to visit it often.

Please feel free to forward this e-newsletter to your friends
and colleagues.

Thank you

Yours faithfully

Lawrence Wong, Professor
Executive Director

To boost stronger ties with European-based research organizations, a total of €1.8 billion worth of research grants is available under European Commission’s Framework Program to foster joint collaborations with Asian partners.

Helping the disabled move forward with
Brainy Communicator

It’s not just ordinary folks but the disabled, too, who are reaping the benefits of modern technology. Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) is actively pursuing new research initiatives through its arm - New Initiatives Department.

Over the past 30 years, speech technologies, which include the likes of speech recognition, text-to-speech, and natural language understanding, have improved by leaps and bounds.

The future of radio signals is set to unfold more exciting discoveries with the introduction of Radio-over-Fibre (ROF). With the aid of ROF, radio signals can now be directly transmitted over optical fibre links to transparently distribute radio signals over many areas, and at a lower cost than deploying many base stations.

	Spin-off Companies
	Emarson Victoria - Pioneer of the T-Up Scheme

	List of publications
	List of patents granted to I²R during the period 1 Oct - 31 Dec 2004.

	EuroSingapore2005 – His Excellency Mr Vassilis Bontosoglou (third from left), European Union Ambassador & Head of Delegation of the European Commission in Singapore, welcomes attendees for the Information breakfast on 8 Dec 2004.
	Delegates exchanging views and experience in infocomm industry development at the annual Infocomm Horizons’04.
	Student representatives from polytechnics, junior colleges and secondary schools attending Infocomm Horizons’04 pre-seminar briefing.
	Distinguished Lecture delivered by Prof Randy H. Katz from University of California, Berkeley.
	Show & Tell time – For the 1st time, all researchers in the different labs come together to put up demos and posters to show and tell fellow colleagues what their labs are doing during TechFest 2004.

	Delegates of foreign governments from Singapore Polytechnic's "IT Skills" program visiting I²R.
	Mr Jean-Yves Roger (far right), Principal Administrator of International Cooperation for the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission, together with representatives from Sigma Consultants: Mr Roger Torrenti (centre) and Ms Karine Valin at a visit to to I²R.
	Professor Geoffrey Owen visit to I²R.

	The Third Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (17 – 21 January 2005)
	EuroSingapore 2005 ICT Co-operation Event (27 – 28 January 2005)
	International Workshop on Antenna Technology: Small Antennas and Novel Metamaterials (07- 09 March 2005)
	The First Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2005) (11- 14 April 2005)
	The 12th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering (07 – 10 December 2005)

	Appointments (announced during 1 Oct – 31 Dec 2004)
		Mr Jaya Shankar s/o Pathmasuntharam Acting Head, Ad Hoc Networks Lab

External Appointments
(announced during 1 Oct – 31 Dec 04)

Cheng Zhi Ning	Adjunct Professor	Zhejiang University, China
Leong Mun Kew	Adjunct Associate Professor	National Institute of Education
Gong Yandong	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Nanyang Technological University


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