To be held in Tokyo, Japan on 8-9 Oct 2008, Dr Mark Auch will present "Breakthrough in flexible, transparent encapsulation" in the Material Advances track. A line-up of the speakers can be found here.

Delegates from the RFID World Asia 2008 visited the latest deployment of Smart Shelf by I2R at our new National Library building. The visit showcase the innovative use of RFID in the National Libraries for self-check out/in of books, and locating of (misplaced) books in real-time.

Mr Boon gave a keynote country update titled "The Singapore RFID strategy: Bridging R&D into developments and applications" at the RFID World Asia 2008 (9 ~ 11 April) conference. Dr Lee Eng Wah (Director of the National RFID Centre) and Mr Walter Lee (SVP, ETPL) also sat in the Pan-Asia panel discussion on "Can Asia innovate itself into global leadership". The National RFID Centre also exhibited a booth to showcase A*STAR's portfolio of technologies in RFID.

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Last week was certainly a busy week for us, here are some pictures of the successful deployment @ The Singapore Airshow. An efficient and non-intrusive collection of 40,000 delegates and exhibitors statistics. These important statistics were captured for business intelligence that the show organisers can use for their next event. If these photos do not excite you, adrenaline photos of the aerial display can be found here.

The UHF RFID reader modules that ware deployed were almost a namecard size, and having an IC chip solution has certainly saved the show organiser hundreds of thousands dollars for hardware costs!