The university opened the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in 2009 in Singapore's Fusionopolis, a complex developed by the government's Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Years before, the government had approached the university about creating something like the UI's Coordinated Science Laboratory in its country. The CSL is a multidisciplinary information technology lab focused on computing, control and communications.
The initial "anchor" grant from Singapore — $50 million — funds the Human Sixth Sense Project which looks at how people and organizations use and interact with technology, Sanders said. That includes looking at ways to make the cyber or digital world "as familiar and easy to use and as trustworthy" as a human friend, he said.
The main grant from Singapore will be extended over about a six-year period. Looking ahead, Iyer said, administrators in Singapore are actively investigating additional grants that the center could obtain. Full story
