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CSIE Doctor Helps Google Beat Go Champ

Google defeat Go Champion with the help of a Taiwanese programmer. AlphaGO, a computer program developed by Google DeepMind in London, beat South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol on the 9th of March. The result was shocking to the world. And there was a Taiwanese born and educated doctor behind the super program AlphaGO.

World Champion Ma Trains Professional Trainers

A local Taiwanese kid got double champions in World Skills Competition, what can he do next? Traditionally, people think that he may start up a business and a factory, but Ma Xian Yuan, 35, is different. Graduated from Industrial Education of NTNU, he went to China to find his stage. After working in international automobile companies like Audi, Porsche, recently he started his own business of training professional trainers that go to vocational schools and businesses in China.

Kuo from NTNU Joins the World Class Orchestra

One of the three major orchestra and the top 1 in northern America, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra came to Taiwan to give two concerts in Taipei. Violist Kuo Wei Ting is was graduated from NTNU, the department of music. The courses he took during the school not only built a solid foundation of his music skills, the required vocal training also benefited him a lot. There are other 3 Taiwanese musicians in the orchestra, who studied abroad since little or for college.

Alumnus Jing Yu Elected as TWAS Fellow

Recently, The World Academy of Sciences announced their Fellows in 2015 and one of them is Yu Jing, an alumnus of the Department of mathematics graduated in 1972. TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences is a merit-based science academy established in 1983, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. The 26th General Meeting was held in Vienna, Austria, from 18 to 21 November 2015.

President Wang Gin-Pyng Talked About Congressional Diplomacy

On April 16th, Wang Gin-Pyng, President of Legislative Yuan as well as a NTNU alumni of the Department of Mathematics, returned to his alma mater and shared with current students stories of the less known congressional diplomacy.