| Dec 28, 2007 |
When Innovation Is King
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) won the recent Innovate IT Challenge, organized by the students of the School of Information Systems , Singapore Management University , on 08 December 2007 as part of the National Infocomm Competition.
Published in Omy.sg |
| Dec 28, 2007 |
Malay opera taught me that I'm no failure
SMU students Nadiah Mis'ari [ School of Social Sciences ] and Ahmad Firdaus Daud [ School of Information Systems ] are part of a 25-student theatre group working with 35 students from Jamiyah Business School under the Mendaki Max programme. They will perform the traditional Malay opera, Sultan Temasek Sultan Melayu, at the Lee Foundation Theatre, NAFA, on Saturday and Sunday.
Published in The New Paper |
| Nov 2007 |
SMU SIS Partners IBM to Launch Service Science Initiative in Singapore
Published in Trading Markets.com (Nov 28)
Published in Lianhe Zaobao - in Mandarin with English translation (Nov 29)
Published in The Business Times (Nov 29)
More info on SSME Programme in SMU SIS
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| Nov 16, 2007 |
Grooming IT talent for financial services
SMU's successful Business-IT approach has been expanded to include a master's programme for financial services and two through-train programmes.
Published in SDA Asia (Volume 20, 2007) |
| Nov 2007 |
SMU graduates make IT work at work
SMU School of Information Systems (SIS) advertorial on how the school produces graduates who are in hot demand by employers from all industries.
Published in TODAY (Nov 14)
Published in MyPaper (in Mandarin) (Nov 20)
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| Oct 2007 |
Tomorrow's Business Leaders Get IT
SMU School of Information Systems (SIS) advertorial on how the School produces future leaders who know how to leverage IT for business advantage.
Published in TODAY (Oct 25)
Published in MyPaper (in Mandarin) (Oct 30)
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| Oct 12, 2007 |
Tertiary institutions 24 March, 2008 institutions have joined forces to groom future digital media entrepreneurs. SMU, NYP and Nafa will do this under their Joint Incubation Programme. SIS Practice Prof Desai NARASIMHALU stressed the importance of such collaboration.
Published in The Straits Times
Press Release |
| Sep 29, 2007 |
Team 0x539 (SIS undergrad students Mohammad bin Mohsin, Jonathan Zhan & entrepreneur Jacqueline Choo) wins code::XtremeApps:: Competition.
More info here |
| Sep 17, 2007 |
A master first for SMU
SMU is the first local university to roll out a new master's degree programme to groom talent for the growing financial services industry. The pioneer batch of 22 postgraduate students embarked on the inaugural Master of IT in Business (Financial Services) course. SIS dean Professor Steven Miller said: "A unique aspect of this programme is that it is co-designed and co-delivered with financial services organisations and the supporting vendor community. These deep connections with the industry mean that the curriculum will always be relevant and responsive to emerging trends."
Published in TODAY
Published in Channel News Asia
Published in Lianhe Zaobao |
| Sep 7, 2007 |
SMU turns heads in India
Through the international student ambassador programme, SMU was able to reach out to 20 schools and 2,000 students from top high schools in India... SIS undergrad student Projjal Ghatak adds that
the safety of the country and drug-free
environment make Singapore and SMU
a preferred education destination.
Published in
India Se, pp 38-39 |
| Sep 7, 2007 |
The paper "Globally Distributed Software Development Project Performance: An Empirical Analysis" by SIS Assistant Professors Narayan RAMASUBBU and Rajesh BALAN was awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
The award was presented at
6th joint meeting of
the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2007) (Dubrovnik, Croatia), in September 2007. See photo here.
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| Sep 4, 2007 |
Singapore logistics industry players need to tailor services: analysts Practice Professor Steven Miller, Dean of the School of Information Systems at SMU, says Singapore 's logistics companies can gain a competitive advantage by cross-training employees in IT, business analytics, and supply chain applications and operations.
Channel NewsAsia 
Published in Channel NewsAsia  |
| Aug 2, 2007 |
SMU Success Story
By investing in Novell Certified Linux Professional certification, the School of Information Systems at SMU gained the internal know-how to run its own Linux courses for students.
Novell.com
Novell.com (website) |
| Jul 2007 |
Separate but equal?
SIS Masters Programme Adjunct Faculty Michael FUNG, also Associate Director of Strategic Planning at SMU, says: “My take is IT has become far more strategic to the business, whereas in the earlier years it was all about automation."
Published in CIO |
| Jul 29, 2007 |
Blood buddies
Blood donation drive organizer Aaron Tan, President of SMU's chapter of the Red Cross Humanitarian Network & SIS Student Batch 2006, highlighted how new fun elements such as having a ‘live' band and mini-bazaars at blood donation drive will help make the activity a more enjoyable event for donors and their friends.
Published in The Straits Times |
| Jul 24, 2007 |
CIOs must consider social computing
Two SMU SIS undergraduates TAY Kang Xun and MA Weiyi told a group of chief information officers that youth watch TV, chat over the Internet and talk on their cellphones while doing their homework.
Published in The Straits Times, Digital Life |
| Jul 16, 2007 |
Tough to get good grades, but the happiest undergrads are from...
(Features SMU SIS students, Rafiqah Abdul Rahman, Tanushree Chakrabarti, Kelvin Choy Wei Feng, and Aditya Lesmana in the picture.) In a Straits Times' poll of 300 undergraduates, SMU students emerged as the most overwhelmingly positive about their campus life, particularly praising the social scene, environment and professors.
Published in The Straits Times |
Jul 13, 2007 |
SMU SIS and the Indian School of Business sign collaborative research agreement in IS Management area.
SMU SIS and The Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad, have signed an agreement to conduct joint research in information systems, along with annual workshops and research seminars. The universities will collaborate to generate leading-edge research in areas such as business intelligence and analytics, e-market design for emerging economies, IT issues in the banking and trading sectors and IT governance.
Press release
Published in FT.com |
| Jul 11, 2007 |
The Business School at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) signs agreement with SMU for an accelerated SMU Bachelors + KAIST Business School Masters fast-track programme. The participating schools at SMU are the Lee Kong Chian School of Business and the School of Information Systems.
Published in the Korea Economic Daily |
| Jul 11, 2007 |
Oracle partners with SMU to drive Business and IT skills development
Press release |
| May 22, 2007 |
Know-IT-alls have winning edge
Undergraduate and graduate courses at the SMU School of Information Systems combine classes in both IT and business.
Published in The Straits Times, Digital Life |
| May 22, 2007 |
Crunch on IT in banking and finance sector
At SMU, the Master of IT in Business (Financial Services) trains students in business operations, technology solutions and strategies of the financial services industry.
Published in The Straits Times, Digital Life |
| May 22, 2007 |
SiTF challenges students to “Speak Out” to chart future of Singapore Information and Communications industry
Media Release |
| Apr 24, 2007 |
I'm glad I stayed ‘home'
SMU student Shashank NIGAM enrolled in the School of Information Systems four years ago and benefited from a very valuable education.
Published in The New Paper |
| Apr 17, 2007 |
SMU information management students Olivia CHIU and TAY Kang Xun fell in love during the infocomm reality TV game show iWhiz.
Published in The New Paper |
| Apr 16, 2007 |
SMU Undergrad Wins Infocomm Reality Game Show
Olivia CHIU, SIS undergrad student, beat 11 other contestants and overcame 10 challenges in the country's first infocomm reality game show.
Also see Olivia's meeting with Mr Bill Gates at Microsoft HQ
Channel NewsAsia
Channel 5
Published in Channel NewsAsia
Published in The Straits Times, Digital Life
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| Apr 13, 2007 |
Clean Sweep by Singapore Teams in Asian Business Plan Competition
SIS students
Aditya Singh HARNEJA (BSc ISM) and Richa MAHESHWARI (BBM/BSc ISM double degree) are part of the winning teams.
Published in AsiaOne |
| Mar 29, 2007 |
Citibank Case Challenge
SIS undergraduate Priyam SARAF shares about organising and taking part in the inaugural Citibank Case Challenge.
938LIVE |
| Mar 27, 2007 |
The next big thing: Global degrees
Global degrees such as SMU's fast-track programme with Carnegie Mellon University are catching on with local students who see the world as their oyster.
Published in The Straits Times |
| Mar 27, 2007 |
Big Bucks? Not interested
SIS Practice Associate Professor Arcot Desai
NARASIMHALU, would rather his students make the big bucks when their start-ups make it.
Published in The Straits Times, Digital Life |
| Mar 20, 2007 |
Listen to Practice Professor Steven MILLER, Dean of the School of Information Systems, SMU Information Systems Management undergraduate Phelicia Glenda GOH Liangfeng talk about studying information systems management at SMU.
987FM |
| Mar 19, 2007 |
iWhiz: Episode 6
This segment of the competition, Business IT, is held at SMU and features SIS dean Steven MILLER, SIS professor Benjamin GAN and competing SIS students Olivia CHIU and TAY Kang Xun.
Channel 5 |
| Mar 19, 2007 |
Big challenge for undergrads
SMU SIS students – Ravi BHUSHAN, Piyush CHAUDHRY, Shuvam DUTTA and Priyam SARAF – emerged winners at Citibank's inaugural business case competition. More info on Citibank Case Challenge.
Published in The Buiness Times |
| Mar 19, 2007 |
SMU SIS has launched a new master's programme to prepare technology professionals for leadership positions in the finance industry.
Published in The Business Times |
| Mar 13, 2007 |
SMU SIS Practice Prof Desai NARASIMHALU and SMU SIFE students share what it means to be entrepreneurial and the SMU environment that encourages the incubation of ideas as well as entrepreneurship. Arts Central |
| Mar 13, 2007 |
First group of SIS graduates perform well in the job market.
Published in The Straits Times
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| Mar 2007 |
SIS announces the winners of the Standard Chartered Bank iLab Awards 2006-07. |
| Feb 16, 2007 |
Standard Chartered Bank's iLab@SMU announces the student award recipients. |
| Feb 10, 2007 |
NIS scholar and SIS undergraduate Aaron TAN is on the way to making his infocomm dreams a reality through the SMU-Carnegie Mellon Fast Track Programme.
Published in The Straits Times, Scholar's Choice II |
| Feb 5, 2007 |
Youth go pro to find villain
Picture four investigators racing to look for clues to find an elusive cyber criminal: That is the premise of a new reality show iWhiz that premieres tonight on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 at 8pm. [Among the contestants are School of Information Systems undergraduates TAY Kang Xun and Olivia CHIU. See more media coverage & press release
Published in TODAY, p 29
Channel 5
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| Jan, 2007 |
Information Systems students from the Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, USA) IS programme and from SIS form a virtual team to experience global collaboration.
Published on Carnegie Mellon University |
| Jan 30, 2007 |
SIS undergrads who are vying to become Singapore's No. 1 IT geek in infocomm reality game show iWhiz.
Published in The Straits Times, Digital Life
More information on iWhiz |
| Jan 29, 2007 |
SMU's Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) encourages our faculty to bring new technology and media to enrich their teaching. Responding to this, SIS Practice Associate Professsor LEONG Thin Yin became the first in SMU to use Podcasting for his courses, while Practice Associate Professsor WONG Yue Kee also scored a first in Online Journaling. Published in Lianhe Zaobao |
| Jan 10, 2007 |
SMU SIS announces the establishment of a new Centre for Interactive Media. |
