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132013. 08
No. 96 View. 17599
Vice Minister of Science, ICT & Future Planning visited KISTI
Vice Minister of MSIP(Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning) has visited KISTI on Aug.9 to host a meeting with SMEs.?Under the MSIP's vision of?creative economy, SMEs are regarded as a key player for achieving the creative economy. In line with this regard,?Vice Minister of MSIP?invited?some of?ASTI(Association of Science and Technology Information)?member companies to listen their needs and difficulties to?seek the way that government and KISTI?can?do?together. Participantes?were briefed on KISTI's supporting program for SMEs such as field support, 1-1 mentoring service and?supercomputing simulation?program. Lee Sang-mok,?Vice Minister of MSIP has emphasized the?role of SMEs in the Creative Economy which is the core policy objective of new government and promised that MSIP and public institutes will do their utmost to support and help SMEs to be highly competitive and to be reborn as a growth engine of Korean Economy. Dr.Park Young-seon, President of KISTI also?mentioned that KISTI will not save any efforts in supporting SMEs and will?also expand its SME supporting?program. -
182013. 07
No. 95 View. 17303
Global partership for Big Date Research
KISTI has concluded MoU with Universtiry of Hildesheim, University of Paderborn and GESIS in Germany to expand its research on science and technology big data. Based on thsi MoU, KISTI will strengthen its joint research on S&T?big data analysis and application technology and also exchanges of research specialists. Softwear?Research Center of KISTI?and these 3 organizations will cooperate on global research on mutual interesting areas?such as ?text mining of big data analysis and application, semantic web and information analysis ?exchange of researchers and academic journals and other information. KISTI will also ask the University of Hildesheim to join the field training program of UST(University?of Science and Technology) -
162013. 07
No. 94 View. 15942 A group of Kongyang University students visited KISTI on July 22nd to experience the research field. This visit was made in line with KISTI's donation program which aims to provide university students with field experience in R&D institutes. The students had a chance to visit KISTI NISN(National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking) and were briefed on supercomputing performance, utilization and research results. After that, KISTI's supercomputing training program was introduced for their application. At the end of the visit, students had a meeting with KISTI researchers working in the supercomputing center for their caree path in future. KISTI has a plan to visit or invite about 10 university students of engineering department to provide them with R&D field experience and with a chance to meet researchers to hear career path for them.
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152013. 07
No. 93 View. 16073 2013?Knowledge donation fair was held in Kintex from July 12th to 14th.About 190 institutes, companies and universites particpated with there research results and products from which students?could experience and learn the theory and process. KISTI?opened the booth displaying?its main research activities including?information?service, analysis and supercomputing infrastructre.?Especially,?3D printing lessen was opened this year to provide the basic?understanding of?3D design and printing process.?Students?participating the lessen could learn and print out his or her design model. KISTI has been activitly?participating in?knowledge?donatoin activities for its social responsibilities as a pubic research institute. Last year, KISTI researchers visited 50 local schools in remote areas from city and gave lectures on science and technology to?encourage students and reduce science knowledge gap between local and city schools.?????
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252013. 06
No. 92 View. 16229 The 1st Uzbek-Korea forum for science and technology was held in Tashkent on July 26th. 3 research staffs particiated in the forum and presented KISTI's overview and its integrated information service porter with document delivery service. Before the forum, KISTI has concluded MoU with CCSTD(Committee for Coordination of Science and Technology Development),which is under the?Cabinet Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. This forum and MoU between KISTI and CCSTID resulted from the visit of CCSTD to KISTI last Feb.?When visiting KISTI, the delegation?were briefed on KISTI's information infrastructure and?its information service for industry,academia and reserch institutes and they showed strong intention to?learn the developemtn process of information infrastructure. In line with this regard, KISTI has dispatched 3?staff to participate in the forum?and presented its major research service and concluded MoU to lay the foundation for mutual cooperation in inforamtion collection and its related services.?During the?meeting with CCSTD,?Dr.Choi Ho-nam, a?director of information servcie center agreed to seek the way?of?promoting mutual cooperation. Especially,?KISTI and CCSTI agreed to put priority on?training program for CCSTD staff in KISTI and organization of annual workshop between KSITI and?CCSTD.?
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192013. 04
No. 91 View. 16620
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
No. 90 View. 15930
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
No. 89 View. 16348
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
No. 88 View. 14945 KISTI has concluded MoU with CUK(Catholic University of Korea) on Nov.16. CUK has 155 years of history and has strength in medicine and engineering areas. By concluding MoU, KISTI and CUK have agreed to support and enhance the competitiveness of science and technology in DaeGu Provincial area where CUK has its campus.l During the ceremony, Dr.Park Young-seo,President of KISTI has emphasized the importance of mutual collaboration between research institute and university to find out growth engine for local economy.
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162012. 09
No. 87 View. 16839
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.