Call for Paper - Symposium on Progress in Information and Communication Technologies (SPICT'09)

Dear Prof/Assoc Prof/Dr./Mr/Mrs/Ms,

The Symposium on Progress in Information and Communication
Technologies (SPICT'09) Call for Paper

We are pleased to inform you that the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
is organizing the Symposium on Progress in Information and
Communication Technologies (SPICT'09). SPICT'09 will be held in Kuala
Lumpur on 7th to 8th December 2009, in conjunction with the
post-ICONIP workshop, Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Computing
(WAIC 2009), on 7th December 2009.

SPICT'09 aims to bring together researchers, industry practitioners
and students to exchange the latest advances and trends, and to
identify and share emerging research topics in the field of
information and communication technology. SPICT encourages papers with
original ideas and research advances, covering all aspects of ICT. It
also encourages contributions that describe experiences drawn from
real-world applications, or large scale simulation experiments, taken
from a variety of fields, including environment, agriculture,
atmosphere, and ocean. Work-in-progress reports on current projects
are also welcome.

SPICT'09 solicits contributions from the following non-exclusive list
of topics in information and communication technology:
- Agent & Multi-agent Systems - Antennas & Propagation - Artificial
Intelligence - Bioinformatics & Scientific Computing - Business
Intelligence - Communication Systems and Networks - Complex Systems:
Modeling and Simulation - Computer Vision - Database and Application -
Geographical Information Systems - Grid and Utility Computing - Image
Processing - Information indexing & retrieval - Information Systems -
Intelligent Systems - Internet Technology - Knowledge Management -
Mobile Communication Services - Multimedia Technology and Systems -
Natural Language Processing - Network Management and services -
Ontology and Web Semantic - Parallel and Distributed Computing -
Pattern Recognition - Pervasive Computing - Real-Time and Embedded
Systems - Remote Sensing - Robotic Technologies - Security and
Cryptography - Sensor Networks - Service Computing - Signal Processing
- Software Engineering - Strategic Information System - Optical
Communications and Networks

Important dates are as follows:
Full Paper Submission deadline :   1st July 2009
Notification of acceptance :   1st September 2009
Camera-ready manuscript and author's registration :   1st October 2009
Early Bird Registration :   1st October 2009
Conference date :   7th -8th December 2009

It is our great pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to
participate in this conference. For more information, please visit our
website at http://spict.utar.edu.my/. Your assistance in disseminating
this information is very much appreciated.

Thank you and we look forward to receiving a positive response from you soon.

Yours truly,
Hong Tat Ewe, Prof. Dr.
General Chair
Symposium on Progress in Information and Communication Technologies (SPICT'09)
Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT)
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
9, Jalan Bersatu 13/4,
46200 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor,
Malaysia.
Tel: 03-79551511
Fax: 03-79551611
Email: spict@utar.edu.my

CMS Seminar: Talk on Scientific Python by Dr Liew How Hui

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Centre of Mathematical Sciences Seminar Series

Date: 30 April 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 2 - 3 pm
Venue: Meeting Room, FICT, UTAR.
Speaker: Dr. Liew How Hui, UTAR
Title: Scientific Python

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Dear all,

This week's CMS talk will be on this Thursday, 2-3pm. The speaker is
our Dr. Liew
How Hui. His talk will be on Scientific Python.

More and more research in many areas of mathematics are involving
certain degrees
of computer calculations. Matlab is one of the most widely used software for the
mathematicians, due to friendliness and many excellent toolboxes available. The
down sides of Matlab is it is not quite a general purpose programming
language. It
is not straight forward is one would like to use Matlab to search the internet,
parsing xml, working with regular expressions, handling gzipped files and so on.
Python is an alternative general purpose scripting language which is easy to use
and learn. Combining with Scientific Python library, it can be a powerful tools
that match the functionality of Matlab, at the same time provide flexibility and
many modern computing data structures.

Please note that the change of the venue, it will be in FICT Meeting
Room, due to
room renovation.

Thank you very much.

regards,
Kheng

CCIS Seminar: Windows Academic Initiative with Shared Source and Windows Kernel

The seminar for April:

Title:   Windows Academic Initiative with Shared Source and Windows Kernel
Speaker: Mr Tan Teik Boon, FICT
Date:    Tuesday 21 April 2009
Time:    12-1pm
Venue:   FSET video conferencing room / FICT meeting room

Regards,
Mariam Nainan

Research Workshop 2: Research Initiation and Literature Review

Dear all,

We are glad to inform you that the 2nd research workshop will be held on
20th April 2009 (Monday), from 10am to 12pm, at PD206.

For the first session of this research workshop, Prof. Ewe will share with
you his experience in initiating a research work/project.

For the second session, I will share with you some of the tips on literature
review writing, such as: what is the purpose of writing literature review in
a paper/proposal; what your readers expect to see from the literature
review; how to write a structural literature review, etc.

Your postgraduate students, if any, are also encouraged to attend the
workshop. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please reply
my email (syliew@utar.edu.my) so that I can do necessary arrangement.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Regards,
Soung

Seminar: Ten Generations of CMOS Process Technology in 20 Years by Mr. CM Tan

Dear All,

The Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus will be hosting a seminar by Mr. CM Tan.

The particulars are as below:

Title:   Ten Generations of CMOS Process Technology in 20 Years - A Designer's Odyssey
Date:   15th April 2009 (Wednesday)
Time:   2.00 - 3.00 pm
Place:  DK1, UTAR KL Campus

ALL ARE WELCOME

BIODATA
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Mr. Tang has a vast experience of over 23 years in pioneering Communication and Multimedia ASIC Design and R&D Centers in the Asia Pacific Region. In 1984 he joined Honeywell-Synertek as CAD Manager to pioneer the VLSI design industry in the Asia Pacific Region. He was responsible for the setting up of the ASIC Design Center in Singapore. From 1985 to 2001, he has been the Regional Director of design centers of Bell Laboratories in Singapore, Tokyo, Taipei, and Seoul. From 2001 to 2006, he was made the Director of APAC R&D Centers of Agere Systems Singapore, Seoul and Shanghai. In 2006, he became the Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media Business Unit of Huahong Semiconductor International.

Best regards,

Dr.Tan Yong Chai