Smartphone-based interaction sensing to innovate our face-to-face social lives   Advancing our smartphones as conversational interaction sensing platforms to promote social health in everyday life   Article  |  Spring 2014     A team of researchers in the Dept. of Computer Science at KAIST are leading new mobile initiatives to build social context platforms and create life-...

How to share network resources mathematically   A new approach for the network resource allocation problem by constructing randomized scheduling algorithms   Article  |  Spring 2014     The problem of dynamically allocating shared resources is fundamental to modern high-speed communication networks. The pioneering ALOHA algorithm was developed in the 1970s by Norman Abramso...

A novel therapeutic strategy for cancer that combines IT and BT   Prof. Kwang-Hyun Cho’s Laboratory for Systems Biology and Bio-Inspired Engineering (http://sbie.kaist.ac.kr) in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering has developed a novel systems biological approach to find an optimal combinatorial treatment by combining mathematical modeling, large-scale computer simulation, and biological experim...

Researchers find that human walks resemble levy walk patterns     An empirical study revealed that human walks resemble statistical movement patterns known as Levy walk, yielding atypical supper-diffusive mobility.   Article  |  Spring 2014     Researchers in KAIST and North Carolina State University have reported that human walk patterns contain statistically similar f...

Water strider inspires new testing method of ultra-thin films on water surfaces   Drawing inspiration from the water strider, researchers developed a new method of measuring the mechanical properties of ultra-thin films on water surfaces.   Article  |  Spring 2014     A joint research team of Professor Taek-Soo Kim from KAIST’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and ...

Novel method developed to produce gasoline by metabolically-engineered Escherichia coli   Based on the systems metabolic engineering approach, Escherichia coli was engineered to provide fatty acid derivatives that are shorter than normal intracellular fatty acid metabolites, and a novel synthetic pathway was introduced for the biosynthesis of short-chain alkanes (gasoline).   Article &nbs...