by Derrick Ho

A TOP US university which counts YouTube's co-founders and Microsoft's chief software architect among its alumni has set up a digital sciences research centre at Singapore's Fusionopolis.

Called the Advanced Digital Sciences Centre, the campus is the University of Illinois's first research facility outside the United States. The university is ranked top five in many engineering disciplines and 15th among all public US universities in federal money spent on research.

Its first project is a programme that will enable computers to operate with a 'sixth sense' so that users are given information that is relevant, the university and A*STAR announced in a statement on Thursday.

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