VOL.43 · August 31 · 2018
ETRI will contribute to the economic growth of Korea with research accomplishments in ICT and come closer to the nation’s citizens to ignite their interest in science. ETRI is with the citizens through advanced ICT to realize what is imagined, change the world with ICT, and open a bright future with ICT.
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ETRI researchers succeeded in developing fundamental software technology capable of speeding up the compiling of programs. Notably, this technology can be applied to quantum computing, which has recently been drawing significant attention. Such applications will give further momentum to the development of relevant future technologies.
The developed technology is fundamental technology for quantum compiling, which is more efficient than existing technologies in converting quantum algorithms into machine language form for quantum computing.
So far, there have been complaints from quantum computing researchers across the globe that the compiling process, in which quantum algorithms are converted into machine language, consumes excessive resources. ETRI researchers have successfully revealed the secret of this quantum compiling process, thereby contributing to enhancing the operation speed and performance of quantum computers. ETRI has applied for patents on the core parts of the technology in the hope that the technology can be applied to all quantum computers going forward.
As part of a project of the Knowledge-converged Super Brain Convergence Research Department (KSBCRD), a convergence research project driven by the National Research Council of Science and Technology, ETRI has developed and released the KSB AI Framework, which is used to develop IoT-based AI services. The release of the AI framework will help businesses and universities develop AI services in various fields by learning and analyzing data provided in real-time via the framework. The KSB AI Framework, made available to the general public, is composed of eight types of software package.
If you want to gain access to the framework, please register at the ETRI website at https://csleoss.etri.re.kr/kor.do for downloading.
Korean researchers succeeded for the first time in developing autonomous-driving technology embedded in an electric car developed by a domestic SME. This technology allows a user with a smartphone to call an electric car without a driver and travel using that car. ETRI announced that, following the 2013 development of automated valet parking technology, and in cooperation with IT Engineering, a Korean electric car manufacturer, its researchers had successfully developed and demonstrated levels 3 and 4 autonomous driving core technology, allowing a user to use a smartphone to call a driverless vehicle. This technological achievement and successful demonstration have more profound implications in that the developed AI software has been embedded in an electric vehicle produced by a small domestic electric car manufacturer while using low-cost imaging sensors and LiDAR sensors, thereby making an impressive entry as a leading player in the autonomous vehicle market.
