When Dr Jasy Liew Suet Yan was a teenager she became fascinated with the idea of working with computers. “My older sister was studying Computer Science when I was in secondary school and during her breaks she would come home and show me the programmes that she had worked on. I thought it was so cool that you could create a system that would allow computers to do the things you want it to do,” said Liew, 32, in an interview recently. Today, Liew is a senior lecturer at the School Of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She is also one of the three recipients of the 2017 L’Oreal-Unesco Awards: National Fellowship. The others are Dr Teh Su Yean and Dr Ho Weng Kee. “I was shocked that I...
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