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Advanced Digital Science Center - Places Around Me


About Us

The Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) is a center for research led by faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ADSC's vision is to transform the way people and organizations use and interact with information technologies and contribute to the advance of the knowledge-based economy in Singapore and beyond. Places Around Me

We are pleased to invite you to join our project Places Around Me (PAM). PAM is an iPad/iPhone application that provides integrated information about restaurants, places of attraction, places of entertainment and shopping centers in Singapore. The application aims to be a compact and reliable guide for tourists as well as general mobile users who want to search for places of the above categories. Use Cases

PAM can help you find nearest Korean restaurants and corresponding price ranges with keyword "Korean" under restaurant category. It can also recommend to you places of entertainment such as karaoke places with high ratings and good reviews. PAM can bring the tourists to many attractive places around Singapore and if they need shopping, ask PAM as well! And we need your talents to make it happen! System Overview

PAM is made of two main components: the back-end information search engine and the front-end iPad/iPhone application. For the front-end component, no worries if you have no experience in iOS development. It is a learning opportunity and you are welcome to pick up new skills. If you have difficulties, we are definitely there to help. For the back-end component, we will provide you with the data for restaurants, places of attraction, places of entertainment and shopping centers. Not sure how to build a search engine? No problem. Again, you can learn it. We already have experience in building search engine for restaurants, hence you will definitely receive in-need support. Contact

If the project is good, it stands a chance of being published to Apple Store for commercialization. Sounds interesting? Please contact Prof. Hady Wirawan LAUW at hadylauw@smu.edu.sg! We are looking forward to talking to you!