astronomy

Tan Tin Wee

Tan Tin Wee is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tan Tin Wee rather than just read about it. In short: Tan Tin Wee (born 1962) is a Singaporean bioinformatician and university lecturer. He is an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore and Chief Executive of the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) Singapore.

Key takeaways

Tan Tin Wee belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Tan Tin Wee to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Tan Tin Wee from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Tan Tin Wee (born 1962) is a Singaporean bioinformatician and university lecturer. He is an associate professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the National University of Singapore and Chief Executive of the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) Singapore. As the inventor and founder of multilingual internationalized domain names (IDN) and a pioneer of the Internet, he was inducted into the Internet Society of 2012 along with the founding fathers of the Internet in the first Internet Hall of Fame. He is well known in Singapore and the region for his work on propagating and developing the Internet.

Education Tan studied Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge from 1982 to 1985, after which he received the Master of Science in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at University College London. He followed it up with a PhD in molecular biology on vaccines at University of Edinburgh in 1990.

Biography Tan returned to Singapore in 1990 to develop TechNet, Singapore's first network for a nationwide research community. In 1994, he and his Chinese language team wrote a program that matches the code for each character and then merged the images into one larger image. This program was also extended to the Tamil language. Tan was responsible for several key internet milestones, including the first Gopher Server, the Singapore InfoWeb and the forerunner of the present National Web Homepage. Under his leadership, the Internet Research and Development Unit (IRDU), developed the first regional Java website and the first functional multilingual domain name system (iDNS). In addition to his NUS position, Tan is also chair of the agency for the Computational Resource Center for Science, Technology and Research, which is equipping Singapore with supercomputing capabilities for the twenty-first century. Tan also pioneered the use of new technologies for online computer communication. In November 2014, his team, along with Australian, Japanese and US universities, as well as industry partners Obsidian Strategics and Tata Communications, demonstrated the first high-speed InfiniBand connection between three continents on a platform called InfiniCortex. In 2015, the National Supercomputing Center was set up and Tan became the Chief Executive.

Personal life Dr.Tan was married to the lateKaren Seow. They have a daughter and a son.

Awards For his work, he received national and international recognition: the Singapore Youth Award for Excellence (1994), the Vaccine Research Trust Annual Award (1989), the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Education Award (1997 ), the ASEAN Achievement Award (1997) from the ASEAN Business Forum, the Life Insurance Association (LIA) Award for community work, the 7th Innovation Award of the Indian Cultural Festival (1998), the Achievement Award (1998), the gold medal of the World Congress for Medical Informatics MEDINFO'92 and he is a member of the International Who's Who of Professionals (1999) and a member of the exclusive World Technology Network (2001) as one of 450 leading scientists and entrepreneurs worldwide. He has been featured in books such as Singapore's Scientific Pioneers as one of 25 pioneers and the Singapore Tamils 200, a book which was released in honour of those who contributed to the Indian community development. He has served in the board of directors of Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation, and currently serves in the management board of Keppel Data Centre REIT listed in Singapore stock exchange. He is also a proponent of environmentally green data centers at TED talks.

References

External links NSCC MANAGEMENT – NSCC Singapore Campus Party Biography The Accidental Internet Pioneer Singapore's supercomputer ambitions get a timely, much-needed boost Tan Tin Wee publications indexed by Google Scholar

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tan Tin Wee

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tan Tin Wee claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tan Tin Wee before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tan Tin Wee ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tan Tin Wee

In research: Tan Tin Wee appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tan Tin Wee in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tan Tin Wee is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1962 births, 21st-century Singaporean biologists, Alumni of University College London, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tan Tin Wee outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Tan Tin Wee in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Tan Tin Wee means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Tan Tin Wee out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Tan Tin Wee in simple terms?

Why does Tan Tin Wee matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Tan Tin Wee?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Tan Tin Wee.