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162013. 07
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252013. 06
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192013. 04
Dr.Ahn Sul-ah was awarded Prime Minister's Commendation
Dr.Ahn Sul-ah, a senior researcher of Global Data Hub Center at KISTI, received Prime Minister's Commendation at 46th Science and 58th ICT Day on May 19th . Dr.Ahn was awarded this honor for her outstanding contribution in high-performance computational physics, reseach and development of bioinformatics and her mentoring activities for university students studying in science and engineering. President Park Geun-hye, Dr.Choi Mun-kee, Minister of Science, ICT & Future Planning and about 800 employees of science and ICT industries attended the ceremony which was held to support the harmony of science and ICT. -
162013. 04
English Journal JSTaP is published by KISTI
JISTaP(Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice), the first English journal on informatics in Korea, is published by KISTI on April 18th. KISTI has organized its publishing seminar at Daejeon Head Office and presented its preparation process and future plan. JISTaP, a quarterly journal, will publish the outcome of various research theories and applications of information dissemination and technology in informatics. JISTaP will be made in open access journal and anybody can access it free of charge and especially easy on mobile environment. More interestingly, QR code will be attached to every journals to be pubished for the first time in the world. Dr.Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina and Dr.Oh Dong-geun, Keimyung University were appointed joint chief-editors and about 30 prominent scientists and specialists in 8 countries will participate as editors of JISTaP. Dr.Choi, director of KISTI infomation service center was appointed a deputy-editor and said "JISTaP will be a world renowned academic journal in future because it will go by the international level peer-reivew process?and can also be searched at global sites such?as Google Scholar and?WorldWideScience". KISTI is expecting?to share the experience accumulated from publishing JISTaP with?local journal?publishing associations to contribute to the globalization of domestic S&T journals. -
032013. 04
Dr.Lee Ji-soo's interview with Korea IT News
"I thought that the same people should not use the supercomputer for the same purpose?15 years ago and 5 years ago" said Dr.Lee Ji-soo who is a director general of national supercomputing center?at the interview with Korea IT news on the occasion of the foundation of National Supercomputer Center. Application of supercomputer is quite active in every industries in U.S. but remins stationary in Korea. As the Big data is emerging as a new issue, capability of supercomputing application will be a key factor deciding the competitiveness of national science and technology.? ?Dr.Lee said KISTI has a plan to develop its own supercomputer in near future. "Planning will be done by this year and technology development will be conducted from next year"he said. He also added that the basic framework for national supercomputing application is set now by the legislation of the laws for application and promotion of national high-performance computer last year and establishment of supercomputing eco-system remains to be done. -
132012. 11
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162012. 09
Knowledge donation for primary students
KISTI did its knowledge donation for primary students and social welfare facility. Dr.Jang, a branch manager of KISTI visited Young-chun primary school, located in the southern part of Kyung-gi province and made a lecture on "Invention and its application". Dr.Jang showed many interesting cases of design products and emphasized the importance of innovative thinking in our daily life. In the afternoon of that day, Dr.Kim Han-gi and a few staff of KISTI have visited Jaewon, which is social welfare facility accomodating about 500 disabled and homeless women and hold class for basic cause for powerpoint and other application. Dr.Park Young-seo, President of KISTI also joined there and emphasized the role of public organizations for socially unprivileged people and promised that KISTI will not save any efforts for those people. -
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