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NUS Computing Year 4 undergraduate Lin Tingji Jovian has walked
away with a cash prize of S$2,000 for the work that he has done in
his Final Year Project (FYP).
He is the very first winner of NUS School of Computing’s FYP-Innovation
Award, and his top-spot project FYP is entitled “Human Computation
through Game Playing”.
Jovian’s FYP works on the recognition that through online games,
people can collectively solve large-scale computational problems. He
created Typography, a Facebook application, to help digitize
newspaper articles that fail to meet the Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) requirements set by National Library Board (NLB).
The new Facebook app will bring people together for leisure
proposes, while at the same time, treat human players as intelligent
and dynamic processors in a distributed system where each player
performs a small part of a massive computation.
FYP-Innovation Award has been set up to encourage students to turn
their innovative, practical and commercialisable ideas into real
world applications with substantial impact.
The second call for FYP-Innovation Award closed on 31 December 2009.
Eight projects were submitted for consideration.
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