Byung-Ki Lee invented a process for the conversion and compression of analog signals into digital signals, and developed a technique for framing information for optical communication.
Sung-Roh Yoon the director of the 4th industrial revolution committee, emphasized that “It is time to become the ‘pink penguin’ of the global market by making bolder revolutions to alter the paradigm of the digital industry”.
On the 10th, during the ‘Korea Investment Festival (KIF) 2021’, SNU ECE Professor Byonghyo Shim said that it is premature to conclude that the 5G mobile communication business has failed. However, he emphasized the need for a ‘killer application’ to attract consumers.
On the 16th, former Minister of Science and ICT Kiyoung Choi(photo) said thus during the 11th Woodang Lecture held at SNU, emphasizing the research attitude of talented people in science and technology in preparation for the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
A worldwide war of semiconductors is in full swing. Korea, which has the world’s second and third best companies in the semiconductor industry will find it difficult to avoid this war. Korea’s major competitor in this war is Taiwan’s TSMC.
The new minister of science and ICT Hyesook Lim and former minister Ki-young Choi attended the inauguration ceremony held in the afternoon of the 14th at the Sejong Government Complex.
Former Prosecutor General Seok-yeol Yoon visited the SNU Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center on the 17th and posed for a photo in front of the bust of the late Dr. Dawon Kahng, a semiconductor physicist.
GIST Institute for Artificial Intelligence and SNU Institute of New Media and Communications announced on the 7th (Fri) that they had signed a mutual business agreement (MoU) for research cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence.