The State Key Laboratory of the Internet of Things for Smart City (University of Macau) (SKL-IOTSC) held an inauguration ceremony for its first Academic Committee, which was followed by the committee’s first meeting in 2019. The first Academic Committee is comprised of 13 academicians, experts and scholars in different fields.

The University of Macau (UM) today (17 June) held a lecture on smart cities, as part of the University Lecture Series. Six prominent experts in the field discussed the different aspects of smart city development, including big data, urban security, the Internet of Things, future transport, smart structure, and cloud computing.

In 1978, the world’s first GPS artificial satellite was launched, opening up endless new possibilities for network development. In the same year, the teenage Weijia Jia put down his hoe and left his home in rural Guizhou for a university in Hunan province, where he embarked on a new chapter of his life that would eventually launch him on a career studying big data and the Internet of Things (IoT).

The University of Macau (UM) today (27 May) held an inauguration ceremony for the Joint Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics between UM and the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which was followed by a joint forum. The lab aims to provide a platform for collaborative research in artificial intelligence and robotics and is expected to enhance the research capacity of both sides.

The University of Macau (UM) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Imperial College London (Imperial) to forge linkage and collaboration between the two universities.

The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology, the UM State Key Lab of Internet of Things for Smart City, and the Macao Convention and Exhibition Association, have successfully assisted Macao in obtaining the right to host the three most influential international conferences in the areas of big data and artificial intelligence, namely the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Data Engineering 2019 (ICDE 2019), the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2019 (PAKDD 2019), and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2019 (IJCAI 2019).

A delegation led by Wang Zhigang, minister of science and technology of China, today (28 March) visited the University of Macau (UM) and was warmly received by UM University Council Chair Lam Kam Seng, Rector Yonghua Song, and Vice Rectors Lionel Ni and Ge Wei. Lam thanked the ministry for its continuous support to UM.

The University of Macau (UM) today (15 March) signed an agreement with the Hengqin New Area Management Committee. According to the agreement

A delegation from Zhuhai and the Hengqin New Area, led by Yan Wu, the vice mayor of Zhuhai city, recently visited the University of Macau (UM) and was warmly received by Yonghua Song, rector of UM and director of the State Key Laboratory of the Internet of Things for Smart City, as well as vice rectors Ge Wei and Rui Martins.

A delegation from Zhejiang University’s College of Electrical Engineering, led by its dean Sheng Kuang, recently visited the University of Macau (UM) and participated in a seminar on new demand-side technologies for building smart cities, which was co-organised by UM’s State Key Laboratory of the Internet of Things for Smart City and Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM).