The third Univer+city forum was conducted on Nov. 24. Universities, local governments, and industries from Pohang, Ulsan, and Gyeongju participated in a conference about the innovation for local progress. It was first held last May in Gyeongju, the second conference was in Pohang and the third was held in Ulsan. Participants included POSTECH President Doh-Yeon Kim, Lee Dae-won, the President of Dongguk University Gyeongju campus, Kim Gi-Hyeon Ulsan mayor, and Choi Gil-sun, the President of Hyundai Heavy Industries. A total of 12 institutes participated and graced the forum. During this event,
News | Reporter Lee Il-bong | 2018-01-01 15:34
▲ Prof. Hong Won-ki and his fellow graduate students are proudly holding the awardA team consisting of DPNM (Distributed Processing & Network Management) laboratory graduate students under the guidance of Professor Hong Won-ki (CSE), Jeong Se-yeon (CSE, MS Candidate), Lee Do-yeong (CSE, Ph.D. Integrated), Choi June-muk (CSE, Ph.D. Integrated), and Tu Van Nguyen (CSE, MS Candidate) achieved victory in the ONOS Build 2017’s Hackathon, held last Sep. 20 to 22, at the Samsung Electronics R&D Center in Seoul.ONOS Build 2017 is a festival held by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), with the sponso
News | Reporter Lee Il-bong | 2017-11-01 14:31
From Sep. 22 to 23, the 16th POSTECH-KAIST Science War (PKSW)was held at the KAIST campus. Over 600 POSTECH supporters visited KAIST to join in and celebrate POSTECH’s victory.On the first day, Hacking, Football, A.I., and E-Sports took place. The first match, Hacking was carried out on the first day, from 9 A.M. Hacking games used to be started the day before PKSW and were conducted throughout the late evening, but due to player exhaustion, the game time was moved. By an overwhelming score of 1,321 to 717, POSTECH achieved victory. The next match was football. In the first half, POSTECH playe
News | Reporter Lee Il-bong | 2017-10-11 01:11
A total of 15 corporations, Dongkuk Industries, Dongkuk S&C, Dongyang E&C, Dongil Industry, Samwon Steel, Simpacmetalloy, Aerix, Unicoh Specialty Chemicals, Jeil Technos, Cheil Grinding, Chosun Refractories, Chosun Welding, TCC Steel, Hyundai Sungwoo Casting, Hyundai Welding were selected as ‘Exemplary mid-sized business in Pohang’. ‘Honorary mid-sized business in Pohang’ were selected as part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of POSTECH, and announced on Nov. 29. Among the 730 company members of Pohang Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Pohang CCI), 15 companies were nominated as exempl
News | Reporter Lee Il-bong | 2017-01-01 17:03
On Jan. 12, 2016, the Bank of Korea (BOK) announced that it will focus on the research of coinless society this year. It revealed its plan to make a coinless society by 2020. Due to the high cost of coin casting, coinless societies are rising as the alternative of coin economies. There is a well-known incident of people who melted bunch of 10 KRW coins and made it into copper and zinc. 54 billion KRW was spent in 2015, making coins. According to the data of Korea Minting, Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp in 2007; 40, 91, 139, 192 KRW was spent for making 10, 50, 100, 500 KRW coins re
Feature | Lee Il-bong | 2017-01-01 16:49