Varun Sivamani, a FYP graduate of WING, launched Semantics3 with three friends, to crawl and organize data on the web.  Since then the company has gone to attract paying customers and has recently become the first Singaporean startup to be selected for incubation with YCombinator.  Congratulations, Semantics3!

Dr Ziheng Lin passed his oral Ph.D. thesis defense this afternoon, marking the end of his long career affiliated with WING.  He did an UROP with Min in 2005, a FYP with Min and A/P Lee Wee Sun and a Ph.D. with Min and A/P Ng Hwee Tou.  Congratulations, Ziheng!

Jesse has been hard at work in his last few months to create Chaptrs, the crowning Mac App that will help you organize your photo collection by events and within events too.  With 100s of photographs taken everyday, Chaptrs is a solution to the problem of finding photos, and for Jesse, getting data about photos from actual users (no private data taken, just simple photo metadata).

Jun Ping, Ziheng and Praveen have published two papers at the upcoming COLING on temporal relation classification and the state-of-the-art in generic extractive automatic summarization.  Hope to see you at COLING 2012 in Mumbai!