While all eyes are on the IMF and World Bank event in September, we at I²R are also having a series of exciting activities catering to our ICM community.

On 1st September, the 13th Infocomm Horizons seminar will be held at the Orchard Hotel. Next, on 8th September, the annual show-&-tell event, TechFest 2006, will showcase at our institute’s premises in Kent Ridge. We hope to see you at these events!

A piece of good news to share - our MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless (SLS) technology has just been published as a standard by ISO. Catch more of the above in HotNews@work.

In Technology@work in this issue, you can read about I²R’s SINSHIELD in action against cyber world viral attacks. We also take the opportunity to share with you how we can take care of bed sore patients through the use of fibre optic sensors. Finally, see how application functionalities can be enhanced when the Human Visual System is integrated in terminals in Perceptual Visual Matrix ... more