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01:25 My pleasure.
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01:29 Let me give a little background.
01:46 So cows was found--
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05:59 We've got to try it.
06:23 OK?
06:24 Our board is very supportive of this.
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06:29 $200 million.
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06:46 OK.
06:51 So as the name suggests, we want to invest in deep tech.
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08:44 They are trying to come into the kingdom
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09:03 and hire people in the local.
09:04 So you can see the distribution there.
09:06 This is only in the first few months.
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10:23 So we're in the middle of doing this.
10:36 But I can give you an idea of what we're doing.
10:38 So we have this year's transition.
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11:41 We wanted the funding for it to be competitive.
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16:07 We also have a staff, not only at the university,
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17:04 I see that totally.
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17:32 That's an excellent question.
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18:09 The fact that it's not about the cost,
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18:22 it's important to have devices like a computer,
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18:31 we need to be able to do all of this.
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20:46 Yeah, let me talk about faculty.
20:54 That's what you mean by academic staff.
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21:49 Well, there are two aspects.
22:13 I want to mention two aspects in one case.
22:15 The first is cyber security.
22:17 We have a research center for cyber security and resilience.
22:21 So when someone is attacked, we can do resilience.
22:26 That's one of the main things.
22:28 We have a number of faculty members in the organization
22:31 that are working on that.
22:32 Then the other aspect is that we are an organization
22:35 that is able to prepare for cyber attacks.
22:38 We have a software that we have developed as a sign-in
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22:43 And that's the head of the information security department.
22:46 Head of the information security department.
22:48 But we now have the head of the information security department.
22:51 So we have policies now, like the continuous change
22:54 of passwords, and all the things that are related to outside attacks.
22:58 And we have a good record.
23:00 We are not completely sure about the hack.
23:04 But our record is pretty good so far.
23:06 Our record so far is pretty good.
23:08 So how much is the investment in cyber security today, Mr. Tony?
23:13 Oh, that's difficult to say.
23:16 For example, the center itself.
23:18 It's difficult to say.
23:19 The center itself is a number that is difficult for me to say.
23:22 But it's more than a million dollars a year,
23:25 or a million and a half dollars.
23:27 On the other hand, the faculty members have what is known
23:30 as the research fund.
23:32 So there's another 500,000 or 700,000 dollars
23:37 that we have every year.
23:39 So it's a research fund for each faculty member.
23:42 And also for the infrastructure and the organization,
23:45 we have a fixed budget.
23:47 And the information security department budget is quite large.
23:50 It's more than $100 million a year.
23:53 And so is the development of the programs.
23:55 And so is the information security.
23:57 So I don't know the exact number.
24:00 We take this seriously in the field of research
24:03 and the protection of the infrastructure.
24:06 Finally, I would like to ask how many years
24:11 of research are available for application
24:15 or for turning it into annual projects, Mr. Tony?
24:20 Oh, there are different kinds of what they call
24:23 technology readiness level.
24:26 And there are different levels of what they call technology readiness.
24:29 And there are a lot of them that are available for application.
24:32 I guess over a thousand papers a year,
24:34 you know, come up to us.
24:37 Some of the first-time research,
24:40 all that potential,
24:43 some of them are more for rare,
24:45 and some of them are more for regular application.
24:49 But we like to keep the numbers changing every year.
24:52 But we're looking for a good distribution between these researches.
24:56 So that our plan for the re-construction
24:59 is to shift more of the direction of this project to the right.
25:02 Which is the direction of the projects that are easier to implement directly.
25:06 But that's not possible without the main researches.
25:12 We thank you, Professor Tony Chan,
25:15 President of the King Abdullah Society of Science and Technology, KAUST.
25:18 You were with us tonight.
25:21 Thank you for all of these details.
25:24 Thank you.
25:26 This was our tour.
25:27 You've been watching the latest developments
25:30 that KAUST Saudi University is witnessing.
25:32 We'll see you again next week
25:35 with a new issue from the Kingdom.
25:37 Thank you very much.
25:38 Goodbye.
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