Ever googled “blockchain” to find pages full of technical jargon or conflicting stances? Dabbling in cryptocurrency or feel lost when your friends are talking about their investments? Perhaps just curious to learn about blockchain while bingeing on eclairs?

The Sessions will be holding a discussion on “Blockchain and Cryptocurrency” to increase awareness of the technology, its opportunities and inevitabilities. The conversation will be led by these USP alums and student:

• David Tan is a software developer who is guardedly excited about crypto and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is currently exploring the possible use of technology to improve our mental and physical health.

• Tomithy Too works with ST Telemedia as a seeker and investor in technology companies in AI, Cybersecurity and Cloud. He also dabbles in areas like crypto and angel investing.

• Zhai Yunjie is a Year 4, Psychology + USP student who was a blockchain analyst in Intrepid Ventures, which invests in and builds blockchain-based entities.

Ms Coleen Angove: “How is the #metoo movement changing the society?”
Dr Charles Burke: “Imagine a world where your basic needs are provided for and you only need to work for luxuries. Is Universal Basic Income just a Utopian thing?”

Organised by Cinnamon Conversation and initiated by students, this is a series of informal and relaxed conversations over dinner, between a prof and 4 to 6 students on a topic that the prof is interested in.

USPolymath is a ground-up platform for USP students to showcase their ideas in an intimate setting. Speakers wlll present in a ‘Pecha Kucha’ format (20 slides x 20 seconds) about any topic they are passionate about.

Join this session tonight at the USP Chatterbox as USP students present on a range of topics.

“Character Development IRL – Liminal Spaces!” – Jaymee Justiniano
“A Defense of Pessimism in the Face of Our Inevitable Deaths” – Zhang Yiyue
“How to Get Away with Murder” – Cheah Wenjie
“Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Society’s Reasonable Burden?” – Chester Su

Check out USPolymath archive for past sessions!

In this new USP Lecture Series, we have Computer Scientist A/P Terence Sim from NUS School of Computing to share with us on “Getting Computer to See”. Cameras are everywhere, recording images of everyday life. But computers still don’t understand very well what these images contain. Image understanding is the core problem in computer vision, and it is a much harder problem than meets the eye (pun intended). This session will give an overview of the different sub fields in computer vision, the progress so far, and why you should learn computer vision.

All USP students are encouraged to attend this session. Registration is open to all NUS community.

Read more about the talk and speaker HERE.