Shawn Tan

Skymind appoints Yasmin Mahmood as chairperson to open new growth chapter
Extensive experience will guide Skymind with its growth and scale plans Malaysia serves as group’s regional AI hub, aims to catalyse innovation ecosystem  
Skymind Global brings its AI-powered Innovation City game plan to Malaysia
Skymind Innovation City in Iskandar Puteri will accelerate digitalisation efforts Aims to replicate its succesful deployment in China with Digital Fujian in 2018
Skymind joins forces with USM in fresh initiative to boost industry-ready AI talent
Skymind bullish on abundance of raw talent in Malaysia to be tapped Collaboration furthers commitment to build holistic AI ecosystem
Why half-hearted broadband upgrades do more harm
By arbitrarily limiting upload speeds, TM is inadvertently hurting our national aspiration of becoming active content creators and turning us into a nation of passive consumers instead, writes Dr Shawn Tan.
How to prevent Volkswagen-like scandals in the future
The automotive industry has always played a leading role in setting standards for software reliability and safety, now it has the chance to lead the way in ethical software standards too – by adopting an open-source philosophy, writes Dr Shawn Tan.
DNA on BFM: What’s Next dominates the conversation
Not surprisingly, the What’s Next conference was still foremost on Karamjit Singh’s mind for this week’s show, though he also spoke about affordable broadband and Malaysia’s upcoming national budget announcement.
Malaysians prefer slow broadband? There’s no choice!
No Malaysian would prefer to have a slower broadband package, if they had a choice – the problem with the situation in Malaysia is that most people lack that choice, writes Dr Shawn Tan.  
Two from APAC make it into MIT Tech Review’s global Under 35 list
Singaporean Benjamin Tee and American Rikky Muller, the chief executive officer and cofounder of medical device company Cortera Neurotechnologies, have been named to MIT Technology Review magazine’s global 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2015 list.
Addressing the data scientist glut
On Malaysia's National Big Data Framework, amongst Dr Shawn Tan's concerns is that when all those government scholars return to serve, and the local graduates from shiny new programmes hit the market, there may not actually be any available big data to crunch.
On blended learning and Malaysian MOOCs
It's a great idea to use MOOCs in our public universities, however, as with all early efforts, there is plenty of room for improvement, writes Dr Shawn Tan.
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