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Son Hoon of KAIST wins June Korea Science and Technology Award for infrastructure sensor
Son Hoon (손훈), a professor at KAIST, has been selected as the June winner of South Korea\'s Science and Technology Award for developing sensor technology that detects small movements in medium and small social infrastructure facilities in real time. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation said the technology supports disaster warnings and improves infrastructure safety by combining millimeter-wave radar and MEMS accelerometers to measure acceleration, tilt and displacement with high precision at low cost.
AI & Enterprise
MSIT announces winners of second special achievement bonus awards
South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT selected 4 winners for the second Special Achievement Bonus Awards and held a ceremony the previous day, it said on May 19. The winners were chosen in two areas: restoring the basic research ecosystem and building a system to spread outcomes, and creating an AI-friendly Korean-style regulatory environment for data use. The ministry also expanded eligibility to include staff seconded to other agencies.
Industry
World-first switchable metalens developed to toggle between 2D and 3D
A South Korean research team has developed what it called the world’s first display technology that can switch freely between 2D and 3D without glasses by attaching a metalens to a smartphone screen. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the technology uses a 1.2 mm-thin metalens that changes light refraction with applied voltage, showing 2D without distortion and 3D with a 100-degree viewing angle. The work was published in Nature on April 23.
