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  Kookmin students take top prize at HUSS hackathon SEOUL, July 25 (AJP) - Kookmin University students helped win the top prize and two other awards at a national hackathon that asked humanities and social science students to solve social problems with artificial intelligence. The 2026 HUSS Convergence Camp Insight hackathon ran from July 1 to 3 at the Sono Calm resort in Gyeongju, backed by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea and organized by the council of the Humanities Utmost Sharing System July 25, 2026
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  Kookmin University students win AI self-driving hackathon SEOUL, July 24 (AJP) - Undergraduates programmed scale-model cars to judge forks in the road and dodge moving obstacles by describing what they wanted in plain language and letting generative AI write the code, at a three-day autonomous driving hackathon that ended with Kookmin University teams sweeping the top three prizes. The 2026 SEA:ME Hackathon drew 117 undergraduates in 27 teams from seven universities nationwide to Park Habio in Seoul's Songpa district from July 14 to July 24, 2026
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  KAIST, NVIDIA open joint lab to build AI for Korean industry SEOUL, July 24 (AJP) - NVIDIA will pour $300 million into a joint research laboratory with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology to develop artificial intelligence built specifically for the Korean language and South Korea's industries, in one of the largest corporate commitments to AI research at a Korean university. The NVIDIA-KAIST Joint AI Research Lab will be housed at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI on the Seoul campus of the Korea Advanced Institu July 24, 2026
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  Kookmin University joins World Design Capital exhibition in Frankfurt SEOUL, July 23 (AJP) - A South Korean university design team was invited to Germany this month to show its work on public transportation for people who struggle to get around, one of a set of campus research projects gathered for an exhibition tied to the world's biennial design capital program. Kookmin University's Department of Automotive and Transportation Design took part in the World Design Capital Campus Exhibition 2026 Frankfurt on July 3 at the Museum Angewandte Ku July 23, 2026
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  KAIST germanium system switches oxygen reaction pathways SEOUL, July 22 (AJP) - A new molecular system developed in South Korea can be instructed how many electrons to hand over to oxygen, a switch that decides whether a reaction ends in water or hydrogen peroxide and that sits at the center of fuel cell performance, battery chemistry and cleaner industrial manufacturing. Until now, that kind of control has belonged almost entirely to transition metals such as iron, cobalt and nickel. Fuel cells depend on the four-electron route, which July 22, 2026
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  KAI pitches TF-50 for British trainer contract SEOUL, July 21 (AJP) - South Korea's aerospace contractor Korea Aerospace Industries is pitching its TF-50 trainer jet for a Royal Air Force competition that has not yet formally launched, using this week's Farnborough International Airshow in Britain to make its case against rivals with a significant head start. Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) said Tuesday it is showcasing next-generation air combat systems and aerospace solutions at the airshow, running July 20 to 24, a July 21, 2026
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  KMU hosts global ICT security symposium, signs 10 partnerships SEOUL, July 21 (AJP) - Kookmin University wrapped up a three-day international symposium on information security and e-business in Seoul earlier this month, walking away with 10 cooperation agreements signed with universities and a company abroad, the university said in a statement on Tuesday. The event, called EBISION 2026, was the second symposium held under Working Group 8.4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), a nonprofit that coordinates ICT re July 21, 2026
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  KAIST embryo scan technique wins global fertility science award SEOUL, July 21 (AJP) - A South Korean research team has developed a way to look inside living eggs and embryos in three dimensions without damaging them, a technique fertility specialists say could sharpen how doctors choose which embryos to implant during in vitro fertilization. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Tuesday that the work won the Basic Science Award for Poster Presentation at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology July 21, 2026
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  KAIST clears power-wasting bottleneck in chips SEOUL, July 13 (AJP) - South Korean researchers have found a way to remove one of the biggest hidden bottlenecks inside computer chips, a discovery that could make future artificial intelligence processors faster and far less power-hungry. Every chip loses energy at the point where metal wiring meets the semiconductor material that does the actual computing. This so-called contact resistance works like a tollgate on a highway: electricity slows down, heat builds up, and power is w July 13, 2026