"Make Music by Imagination" Samsung Invests 33Bil Won for Future Tech

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Samsung Electronics will invest 33billion won for 'Samsung Future Technology Promotion Project' through second half of this year. Samsung selected 26 research projects, including 7 projects in basic science, 10 projects in material technology and 9 in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) creative tasks.

Samsung launched ‘Samsung Future Technology Promotion Project’ as a social contribution project in 2013. Samsung aimed to nurture future scientific and technological field with an investment of 1.5 trillion won in total for 10 years. For the project, Samsung also established Samsung Future Technology Development Foundation and Samsung Electronics' Future Technology Development Center (Material Technology, ICT Creative Tasks).


The global giant firm has spent 718.2 billion won to finance 560 research projects, including 187 in basic science, 182 in material technology and 191 in ICT creative tasks.

Professors who will participate in Samsung Future Technology Promotion Project 2019. (Lee Heung kyu of KAIST, Gong Soo hyeon of Korea Univ., Jung Kyeong woon of KIMS, Lee Joon hee of UNIST, KIm Dong hoon of KIST , Jeong Eun ju of Hanyang Univ., Jeong Kyo min of Seoul National Univ. /Samsung Electronics

"The medical and environmental research tasks which selected this time will contribute to improving the lives of our people and solving social problems," said Kim Seong keun, chairman of the Samsung Future Technology Development Foundation. "We expect tasks in semiconductor and AI fields to play a significant role in strengthening the competitiveness of our technology," Kim added.

"Half of the tasks announced today will be carried out by young researchers between the ages of 30~40s, and they will build strong foundation for South Korea's future growth and science&technology," said Eum Doo chan, head of Samsung Electronics' Future Technology Development Center.


In the ICT creative task field, 9 proejcts were selected, including brain signal interpretation and deep learning. Professor Jeong Eun ju of Hanyang University studies how to sense and analyze signals from the brain when people imagine musical sounds, then reconstruct them with music. The study is expected to be useful for emotional stability and social rehabilitation of people whose experience in artistic activities was limited due to physical disabilities.

Professor Jeong Kyo-min of Seoul National University will study the development of artificial intelligence technology that allows deductive reasoning. He will also start developing AI technologies that can respond like humans in situations where it has not learned such as self-driving and natural language processing.

In the field of basic science, 7 tasks in life sciences, physics and mathematics were chosen. Lee Heung kyu, professor of KAIST, studies new immune cells that are expected to recognize brain tumor cells and control immune responses. The project will ultimately seek out new brain tumor treatments.

Professor Kong Soo hyeon of Korea University plans to conduct a research to establish the world's first theory of a new physical phenomenon, which emerges when light is trapped in a nanometer(thickness of one hundred millionth of a meter) two-dimensional semiconductor.

In the fields of material technology, 10 projects will be supported which inclueds semiconductor materials, material analysis, and cancer diagnosis. Dr. Jeong Kyeong woon of KIMS conducts research on organic materials that change color according to the metastatic characteristics of cancer cells. It is expected that the time and accuracy required for predicting and diagnosing the potential transfer of cancer cells can be dramatically improved.

UNIST professor Lee Joon hee studies next-generation technologies that can be applied to neural network computers. Dr. Kim Dong hoon of KIST will study methodologies that predict when metal or composite materials used in machinery and equipment will be destroyed and how long they will remain. It is expected that the time of destruction of large structures such as high-rise buildings, aircrafts, ships and railroads will be predicted in advance, minimizing material and human damage.

Samsung Electronics encourages new applicants to submit research task proposals for the first half of 2020 project till Dec. 13. Basic science fields can be sumitted through Samsung Future Technology Development Foundation(www.samsungstf.or.kr), Material Technology and ICT Creative Tasks(www.samsungftf.com) website.

*The original version of this article has been published on Oct. 7, 2019.
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