KAIST develops AI chip with tunable response speed SEOUL, August 07 (AJP) - KAIST researchers have built a semiconductor that can be set to react quickly or slowly, matching the pace of whatever information reaches it, and that keeps the setting after the power goes off. Arranged in a grid of 256, the devices predicted the course of a mathematical pattern used in the field as a difficulty test about four times more accurately than an identical grid with every device fixed at a single speed. Nature Communications published the w August 7, 2026

Kookmin University opens AI alliance with 10 companies SEOUL, August 07 (AJP) - SEOUL, August 07 (AJP) - A proposal to form a corporate consortium that would fund dedicated admission seats in artificial intelligence and software was raised at Kookmin University on July 24, at the launch of an industry alliance the Seoul school is building with 10 technology companies. Contract-based quotas let companies pay for places at a university under an agreement that links admission to employment with the sponsoring firms. The university's August 7, 2026

KAIST develops technique to recognize objects hidden behind fog SEOUL, August 06 (AJP) - A KAIST research team has developed an imaging method that finds a transparent object buried inside fog and works out its shape, thickness and position from a single camera exposure, the university said Thursday. Glass, clear plastic film and living cells are almost invisible to an ordinary camera because they barely change the brightness of the light passing through them. They do change something else. Light slows very slightly as it crosses them, and tha August 6, 2026

Kookmin students win prize for vehicle solar standard SEOUL, August 06 (AJP) - Five undergraduates from Kookmin University's School of Materials Science and Engineering won the grand prize at a national standardization competition on July 24, taking the award given in the name of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources for a proposed durability test covering solar panels built into vehicle bodies. No existing test protocol subjects such panels to light, heat and vibration at the same time, the combination a panel mounted August 6, 2026

Kookmin University wins 9-year Seoul AI mobility grant SEOUL, August 05 (AJP) - Seoul will bankroll a Kookmin University plan to knit self-driving cars, delivery robots and air taxis into a single artificial intelligence system for the capital, committing up to 8 billion won, about $5.6 million at current exchange rates, over as long as nine years. Kookmin University said Tuesday that its Automotive Convergence College had been selected for the Seoul Anchor 10 Challenge, one of the funding tracks in the city's 2026 regional talent August 5, 2026

Kookmin University, KOICA train 30 Palestinian AI researchers SEOUL, August 04 (AJP) - A new fellowship program will bring 30 Palestinian researchers to Seoul for doctoral study in artificial intelligence, with the entire course built around what they do after they go home. Kookmin University's Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and its Global Development Cooperation Institute said Monday that they would run the AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program together with the Korea International Cooperation Agency. Fellows will enroll in doctoral cou August 4, 2026

KAIST's AI builds workable schedules without optimization software SEOUL, August 03 (AJP) - Researchers in South Korea have taught an artificial intelligence system to draw up delivery routes, factory schedules and hospital rosters that a company can actually run, without handing the job to the specialist commercial software the industry now relies on to make the numbers work. In testing, the system produced a legal plan in 100 percent of the problems it was handed, across five benchmark sets used throughout the field. No comparable method that l August 3, 2026

 KAIST develops technologies to cut AI sensory hallucinations SEOUL, July 31 (AJP) - South Korean researchers have developed two technologies that stop artificial intelligence from claiming to hear sounds that were never recorded or see objects that do not exist, a step toward AI systems reliable enough for self-driving cars, rescue robots, and hospitals. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Friday that a team led by Professor Ro Yong-man from the institute's School of Electrical Engineering developed techn July 31, 2026

Algal blooms speed plastic breakdown into microplastics SEOUL, July 29 (AJP) - The algal blooms that turn rivers and lakes green every summer do more than cloud the water. They also make discarded plastic crumble faster, accelerating the point at which a plastic bag or wrapper starts shedding microplastics, according to research from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. The finding matters because the two problems have been managed as separate ones. Water authorities treat blooms as a nutrient pollution issue and plastic July 29, 2026

Kookmin University leads 22.2 billion won bio materials project SEOUL, July 29 (AJP) - A Seoul university better known for design and management has landed one of the year's larger national biotechnology awards, taking the lead role in a government project to mass-produce high-value biological materials that currently exist only in trace amounts in nature. Kookmin University said Tuesday that a research team headed by Park Yong-cheol, a professor in its Department of Convergence Bioengineering, was selected as a new recipient under the adv July 29, 2026