WELCOME TO NUS

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School of Computing
http//www.comp.nus.edu.sg
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Singapore at a Glance

• Cosmopolitan City Island
• Population
• (residents 3.2M total 3.9M)
• Multi-racial multi-religious composition
• Christians (15), Buddhism (42), Islam (15)
• 5-10 GDP Growth for the last 20 years.
• Per Capital GDP 39,721

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NUS School of Computing

• Established July 1998
• Formerly Department of Computer Science, then
  changed to Department of Information Systems
  Computer Science

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Faculty Staff members
CS IS Total
Professor 7 4 17
Associate Professor 34 9 43
Assistant Professor 14 7 21
Fellow/Senior Fellow 10 2 12
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer 8 2 10
Instructor 4 1 5
Senior Tutor 6 3 9
Teaching Assistant 35 13 48
Total 118 41 159
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Our Campus
Students working in the canteen
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Our Campus
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Our Campus
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Structure within NUS
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Information Systems
Computer Science
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Major Facilities

• Super-Computer
• 200 workstations, 1,000 personal computers, and
  200 X-terminals
• Plug and play
• Wireless network

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Degree Programmes

• B.Comp. (Hons.) in Computer Science
• B.Comp. (Hons.) in Information Systems
• B.Comp. (Hons.) in Computer Engineering
• B.Comp. (Hons.) in Electronic Commerce
• B.Comp. (Hons.) in Communications and Media
• B.Comp. with Technology or Business Focus

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Students
Freshman intake CS/IS CE Total
1996 524 - 524
1997 457 66 523
1998 433 86 519
1999 621 129 750
2000 690 80 770
2001 774 80 854
2002 gt800 gt800 gt800
M.Comp - approx 200M.Sc - approx 200Ph.D. -
approx 100
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Computer Science

• Duration 4 year degree programme
• Focus Strong technical knowledge of computer
  science and technology
• Topics Programming languages, theory and
  algorithms, computer systems, and human-computer
  interaction
• Careers RD specialists, technical support
  specialists, and systems software specialists

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Information Systems

• Duration 4 year degree programme
• Focus Multi-disciplinary knowledge combining
  computing and management
• Topics IT trends and impact, IT strategy, IT
  security, and knowledge management
• Careers Technology analysts, management
  consultants, and systems integrators

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Computer Engineering

• Duration 4 year degree programme
• Focus Integrated view of software and hardware
  interface and design
• Topics Embedded systems, mobile devices,
  wearable computing, and communications appliances
• Careers RD engineers, computer engineers, and
  communications engineers

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Electronic Commerce

• Duration 4 year degree programme
• Focus Integrated view of business development
  and IT trends
• Topics IT trends, entrepreneurship, consumer
  behavior, and economic analysis of businesses
• Careers IT entrepreneurs, electronic business
  analysts, and electronic business consultants

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Communications and Media

• Duration 4 year degree programme
• Focus Technological underpinnings and social
  aspects of communications and media
• Topics Multimedia information processing,
  human-computer interaction, game development,
  entertainment with IT, and mass communication
  with IT
• Careers IT regulators, information services
  specialists, and advertising media specialists

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Technology or Business Focus

• Duration 3 year degree programme
• Focus Theoretical computing training and
  practical computing experience
• Topics Systems analysis and design, systems
  integration, end-user computing, and electronic
  commerce
• Careers Systems analysts, systems programmers,
  and end-user support analysts

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Special Programmes

• University scholars programme (for top students)
• Undergraduate research opportunity programme (for
  senior students)
• Students exchange programme (with overseas
  universities)

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SoC Affiliated Programmes

• Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Co-taught by MIT and NUS Professors
• SM(CS) and PhD (by research)
• MSc in Logistics
• Dual MSc from NUS and Georgia Tech
• Coursework programme with industrial project

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Industry Connection

• School advisory board (comprises senior IT
  practitioners)
• Corporate affiliates programme
• (involves leading IT organizations)
• School incubation centres
• (facilitates technopreneur activities)

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Financial Support

• NUS Scholarship
• Top-Ups
• Instructor Assistants

S1500 per mth plus tuition waiver Additional top
ups available
iDA/SoC Fellowships Research Grant
Top-Up Part-time Teaching
Full-time positions. Assist with Tutorials/Labs
Promotion for students who excel.
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Website for School Brochures

• http//www.comp.nus.edu.sg/aboutsoc/SchBrochures.h
  tml

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Directions in Research

• Strategic areas Embedded systems, Media,
  Electronic Commerce and Bioinformatics
• Pursue large grants
• Enhance external collaboration
• Emphasize Ph.D. research
• Emphasize impactful publications Enlightened
  review procedures

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CS Areas and Divisions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Databases
• Systems
• Programming and Theory
• Bioinformatics

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Major CS Research Activities

• Databases
• indexing, web apps, data-mining, P2P,
  Genomic, DB,
• Systems
• parallel/distributed computing (grid),
  embedded systems (architecture), embedded systems
  (design),
• Bioinformatics
• Artificial Intelligence
• vision, speech and NLP, data-mining, machine
  learning,
• Media
• information retrieval, security,
• Programming and Theory
• constraint, functional and logic programming,
  concurrency models,

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Research Funding
Unit thousand S
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Publications
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Research Organizational Structure

• Research laboratories
• 21 labs Algorithms, Centre for Internet
  Research, Centre for Systems Security,
  Computational Biology, Computer Systems,
  Electronic Commerce, Database,Multimedia etc
• Research centres
• Systems Security
• Internet Research
• Information Mining and Extraction
• Future centres
• Edutainment Technology
• Computational Logistics
• E-Commerce Technology

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Major Research Activities
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Life after Graduation
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Thank You
http//www.comp.nus.edu.sg