Talk by Professor Binshan Lin on "The Publication Strategy in ISI-Ranked Journals For 2010"

We are pleased to inform your that FBF's External Examiner for
Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons), Professor Binshan Lin will
be giving a talk at our UTAR (Perak Campus). The brief details of the
talk is as follows :-

Date: 31/03/2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm
Venue: Room IDK5, UTAR Perak Campus, Kampar.

Title: The Publication Strategy in ISI-Ranked Journals For 2010
Speaker: Professor Binshan Lin
Biography: Dr. Binshan Lin is the BellSouth Corporation Professor at College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He received his Ph.D. from the Louisiana State University in 1988. He is a nine-time recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award at LSUS. Dr. Lin receives the Computer Educator of the Year by the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS) in 2005, Ben Bauman Award for Excellence in IACIS 2003, Distinguished Service Award at the Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (SWDSI) in 2007, SWDSI Outstanding Educator Award in 2004, and Emerald Literati Club Awards for Excellence in 2003. He has published over 210 articles in refereed journals since 1988.
Professor Lin currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Industrial Management & Data Systems, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer Information Systems.
Dr. Lin serves as President of Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (2004-2005), President of Association for Chinese Management Educators (2003-2004), President of International Chinese Information Systems Association (2000), Program Chair of IACIS Pacific 2005 Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Program Chair of Management International Conference (MIC) 2006 in Slovenia, General Chair of MIC 2007 in Slovenia and MIC 2008 in Spain. Professor Lin also serves as the Program Chair of Technology Innovation & Industrial Management (TIIM) 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand, and Conference Director of TIIM 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand and TIIM 2011 in Oulu, Finland. In addition, he serves as a Vice President (2007-2009; 2010-2012) of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).

Talk by Prof. Ivan Andonovic on "Evolution and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks"

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the following talks:

Session 1:
Date: 24/3/10
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Venue: UTAR PJ Campus PD206

Session 2:
Date: 25/3/10
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue: UTAR Perak Campus A009

Title: Evolution and Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract: Advances in low cost wireless and processing hardware have stimulated a range of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) research and their subsequent deployment in a number of applications. Since cost is an essential factor in any development, their designs are driven according to issues such as restricted memory size, limited computation power and low power consumption. However advanced applications such as those demanded by the medical/health care, military and surveillance sectors require higher levels of network performance supporting time sensitive, guaranteed and secure high quality data delivery. These demanding applications drive the need to enhance first generation WSN concepts.

Speaker: Ivan Andonovic, University of Strathclyde, UK
Biography: Ivan Andonovic, Professor of Broadband Networks, graduated with a BSc (Hons.) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1978 from the University of Strathclyde. He received a PhD in ‘Lithium Niobate Waveguide Devices’ in conjunction with neighbouring Glasgow University in 1982. He is presently the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Dynamic Communications Systems (CIDCOM) at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Strathclyde University.
He joined Strathclyde in 1985 following several years at Barr and Stroud where he was responsible for the design, manufacture and test of optical guided wave devices. He has held a two year Royal Society Industrial Fellowship, in collaboration with British Telecommunications (BT) Labs during which he investigated novel approaches to broadband networking. Professor Andonovic’s research interests centre on the development of broadband networks, access and home networking and wireless sensor systems. He has edited two books and authored/co-authored six chapters in books and over 230 journal and conference papers. He has been chairman on the IET Professional Group E13, held a BT Short Term Fellowship, Visiting Scientist status at the Communications Research Laboratories of Japan, Visiting Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and Princeton University, USA. He is Topical Editor for the ‘IEEE Transactions on Communications’ and was Technical Programme Co-Chair for the recent ‘IEEE International Conference in Communications (ICC07)’. Prof. Andonovic is a Fellow of the IET, holds Senior Member status within the IEEE and is member of the Optical Society of America.
He was co-founder, Director and Chief Technology Officer of Kamelian Ltd., a high growth technology start-up focussing on the design and manufacture of advanced semi-conductor devices. He was also a member of flagship Scottish Enterprise (government agency for economic growth) establishment team of the Intermediary Technology Institutes (ITIs), aimed at bridging the gap between basic research and company growth. Presently he holds the ITI Techmedia Sponsored Chair in Broadband Networks facilitating the interaction between fundamental research in communications technologies and digital media and pre-competitive development of technologies that will form the input to commercialisation activities in Scotland.

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TEDx Kuala Lumpur

Event: What Malaysia Needs

Date: 27th March 2010 (Saturday)

Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Venue: Microsoft Auditorium, Level 29, Tower 2, Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur

Cost: RM50 early bird registration at http://www.tedxkl.com/register/

Skinput

Skinput. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research developed a prototype for user interface, called Skinput. The prototype allows users to use their own hands and arms as touch-screens by detecting the various ultralow-frequency sounds produced when tapping different parts of the skin.

Read here for more details.

Talk on "Gaps between Observations – What Can One Learn from Them?"

Title: Gaps between Observations – What Can One Learn from Them?
Speaker: Professor Dr. S. Rao Jammalamadaka, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Date: 5 March 2010, Friday
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: MM3, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Abstract
This talk will provide an overview of some of the main ideas in the theory of spacings, i.e. the gaps between successive observations. After reviewing some basic properties of spacings, their use in testing statistical hypotheses and in estimating parameters, will be discussed. Two-sample tests based on “spacings-frequencies” and their relationship to locally most powerful rank tests will be explored, as are some possible extensions to observations in higher dimensions.