Prestigious recognition awaits best doctoral research

• Main Author: Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bahagian Komunikasi Korporat
• Format: UPM News
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31629/1/Prestigious%20recognition%20awaits%20best%20doctoral%20research.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31629/; http://www.upm.edu.my/berita/details/recognitionawaitsbm

Innovation is a key driver of any economy in the world today, and universities play a fundamental role in strengthening the country’s innovation capability by promoting greater research. Looking at the history of innovation, the first programmable computer was invented by a British mathematics professor in the mid-19th century, while the biggest innovation in modern times, the Internet, was said to have been born in an American university in the early 1960s. Back home, a pre-JARING communication network linked four Malaysian universities as early as 1987.