In recent years, blockchain technology has been hailed as a breakthrough disruptor, poised to drive innovation in virtually every industry ranging from legacy organisations to game-changing start-ups in the new digital economy. This revolutionary technology stems from the ability of blockchain to act as a decentralised distributed ledger. It promises more secure real-time transactions and record-keeping, making it harder for important data to be manipulated or falsified.
Employers have strong grounds to do so but should avoid differentiating for wrong reasons like presenteeism, Singapore Management University’s Jared Nai says.
When the Government again relaxes rules and allow more to return to the office in Singapore, we probably will not see huge swings in work arrangements.
At least not immediately, when many big business names around the world are allowing employees to continue working from home (WFH) on some days, likely prompting others to follow suit.
Universities play a key role in building resilience, said SMU President, Prof Lily Kong. Research done by universities can make a difference in strengthening societies and communities. The academic sector contributes through the graduates whom universities nurture, who go on to add value by creating solutions and ideas that address adversities faced by societies.
There is a reason why engineers and designers provide machines with the semblance of friendliness, but it takes more than that to establish trust between AI and humans.
I was at Promenade MRT Station waiting to travel to work, when my attention was drawn to a little boy pointing at a cleaning robot moving in my direction. It was making comforting gurgling noises, its eyes were blinking gently and soft music accompanied its movements.
"Look at its smiley face!" said the boy and we all boarded the driverless train without a worry.
SMU alumnus, Jaden Teo, arrived in Vietnam just as Covid-19 started grounding travellers the world over. Instead of returning home, he pushed ahead with the launch of his edtech start-up amidst global lockdowns to amazing results.
Ranked the world’s best in human capital development, named the smartest city internationally for three consecutive years, and boasting a GDP that has grown at the fastest rate in a decade, Singapore is well-regarded as a
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is simultaneously an older, established technology and a newer, rapidly developing and emerging technology. How can it be both old and new? The ability to write software programmes that could do more than “compute” numbers — that could use AI methods for logical inference to prove logic theorems and solve algebra problems with symbols instead of numbers, goes back to the 1950s. The first chatbot was created in the mid-1960s using the AI methods available at that time.
The term “digital transformation” is not new, but a buzzword adopted by businesses, organisations and even educational institutions currently embracing digital tech transformation in the bid to improve their operating processes and systems. In most public and private sector operational policy, digital transformation is considered essential to an organisation’s success today, as it is intended to revolutionise how work gets done and data is applied.
The new economic climate requires businesses to be a part of a dynamic ecosystem where partners with different skills, capacities, networks and innovations create a powerful multiplier effect.
Leaders of today are looking to nurture a generation of problem-solvers who are as dynamic and resilient as the problems they seek to solve. Enter, Integrative intelligence. Or as some may call it, Interdisciplinarity 2.0. Individuals with this skill set are able to recognise the insights of one field as they relate to another and identify patterns that emerge across multiple domains; allowing them to better predict and respond to the future.
