Talk on "From NGN towards NGMN -Understanding the Relationship between 3GPP IMS and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC)" by Professor Dr. Thomas Magedanz

Date: 11 March 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 8.30 am - 1.00 pm
Venue: Auditorium, MIMOS Berhad
Title: From NGN towards NGMN -Understanding the Relationship between 3GPP IMS and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC)

Speaker: Professor Dr. Thomas Magedanz

Kindly refer to the e-invitation as attached here and please send your RSVP to Ayu Hazlin at ayuhazlin@mdec.com.my or lina@mimos.my latest by 5 March 2010.

MIMOS Public Lecture: End of Communication as a Service

TITLE

END OF COMMUNCATION AS A SERVICE

SPEAKER

Charles Backoff, 

MIMOS INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

ABSTRACT
Modern communications and computing technologies developed independently in the last century.  Recent advances brought these technologies into alignment, and have blurred their differences.  For example, powerful computer algorithms are at the heart of WiMax, LTE, and other wireless protocols, while Skype enables the Internet to function as a telephone system.  Hand held devices like Smartphones and Netbooks evolve toward the common space of portable communications and computing.  Blurring will continue until communications disappears as a stand alone service, and becomes an internal element of computing.  This trend will drive system selection, applications development and performance parameters for future devices and systems.  This presentation covers some of the indicators of progress in the trend, and suggests areas for research and investment.

BIOGRAPHY
Charles Backof is an executive consultant in wireless communications systems and products and has held a number of senior positions in a 32 year career with Motorola. He has extensive experience in research, development, manufacturing and patenting of electronic products.  He is a Senior Member of IEEE and the president of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Board of Governors. He holds eight U.S. patents, and is a licensed Professional Engineer.

WHEN : 1000 HRS - 1200 HRS, Monday 22 February 2010
Registration will commence at 0930 hrs.

WHERE : MIMOS  Berhad, Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur

For RSVP please contact :-

Miss Nuha Nadiah Afandi
Technology Strategy & Planning
D/L : 03 - 8995 5175
Email : nadiah.afandi@mimos.my

SPICT-10 Website is Up

Symposium on Progress in Information and Communication Technology 2010 (SPICT-10) will be held in Kuala Lumpur on 1-2 November 2010. The website is up and accessible here: http://spict.utar.edu.my/SPICT-10/index.html

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regards,
Yong Haur

Talk by Prof Paul Roe on "Towards an Acoustic Environmental Observatory"

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the following talk:

Date: 2 February 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 am
Venue: PD206, FICT, UTAR Petaling Jaya Campus
Title: Towards an Acoustic Environmental Observatory
Speaker: Prof Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Profile:
Professor Paul Roe received his MEng from the University of York in 1987 and his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1991. He is currently a full professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology at QUT, in Brisbane Australia. At QUT he leads the Microsoft-QUT eResearch Centre, a collaboration between the Queensland State Government, Microsoft Research and QUT which is investigating smart tools for eResearch. Paul also chairs the QUT eResearch working party. He has published over 70 papers and received over $4M in competitive research funding. His research is focussed on smart tools which enable new forms and scales of research, particularly in the areas of distributed computing e.g. wireless sensors networks and end user programming languages.

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Work Completion Seminar for Wong Chuan Ern (Master of Computer Science - A)

Dear all, 

You are invited for the Work Completion Seminar for Ms Wong Chuan Ern on next Monday. The details as as follow:

Date: 1 February 2010 (Monday)
Time: 3pm - 4pm
Venue: PD208A, FICT, UTAR Petaling Jaya campus.
Candidate: Ms Wong Chuan Ern
Thesis Title: Intruder Recognition Security System

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regards,
Yong Haur

CVT Seminar: Vehicle Guidance Technology by Dr Andrew Shacklock

Date: 28th Jan 2010 (Thursday)

Time: 4pm - 5pm

Venue: DK5A, UTAR FES, KL.

Speaker: Dr Andrew Shacklock, Projective Space Ltd 

Abstract:

Projective Space are a collaboration between practioners and researchers from the fields of robotics, computer vision and assistive technology. We are positioned to provide key navigation and interaction technology for the "Service Robotics" industry. To conduct research in autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic systems and implement the results in demonstrations and products for the defence, manufacturing and assistive technology industry sectors. 

The current development of Projective Space are the latest innovation of using sensor fusion including mm wave radar in the vehicle following system. The image processing capability are essential for the success. We will share with you some of our experiences in color based texture in visual guidance applications.

regards,

Tan Ching Seong, Dr.

Chair

Centre for Vehicular Technology 

email: tancs@utar.edu.my

CFP - 2nd MALAYSIAN JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MJCAI2010)

Call for Papers

2^nd MALAYSIAN JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (MJCAI2010)

26^th – 30^th July 2010,

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Paper Submissions now open: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mjcai2010
Deadline: 30^th April 2010

The MJCAI 2010 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the 2^nd Malaysian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MJCAI). The purpose of the conference is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and scientific interchange among AI researchers and practitioners. The conference is hosted by Center of Excellence in Semantic Technology and Augmented Reality (CoE-ST) at University Malaysia Sarawak and MIMOS BERHAD and will be co-located with the 2^nd Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE2010) and the 18^th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS2010) at the Damai Beach Resort, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline: 30^th April 2010

Notification of Acceptance: 30^th May 2010

Deadline for camera ready

copies & Author Registration: 15^th June 2010

MJCAI 2010 Conference: 28^th July 2010 to 30^th July 2010

Original and previously unpublished submissions are invited on all aspects of AI, both theoretical and applied, including, but not limited to:

Abduction	Decision theory	Natural language systems
Adaptive systems	Description logics	Neural networks
Agents	Discourse modeling	Ontologies
AI architectures	Distributed AI	Perception
AI and creativity	Evolutionary computing	Philosophical foundations
Artificial life	Expert systems	Planning
Automated reasoning	Game playing	Probabilistic reasoning
Bayesian networks	Geometric/spatial reasoning	Reasoning about action/change
Belief revision	Human computer interaction	Reinforcement learning
Case-based reasoning	Industrial applications of AI	Robotics
Cognitive modeling	Intelligent databases	Satisfiability
Cognitive robotics	Knowledge discovery	Scheduling
Common-sense reasoning	Knowledge engineering	Search
Computational complexity	Knowledge representation	Semantic web
Computer-aided learning	Logic programming	Simulation
Conceptual graphs	Logics for AI	Social intelligence
Constraint programming	Machine learning	Temporal reasoning
Constraint satisfaction	Machine translation	Verification and validation
Data mining	Multi-agent systems	Vision

Conference Chairs

Conference General Chair:

· Dickson Lukose (MIMOS)

Program Committee Chair:

• Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer (UNIMAS)
• Shahren Ahmad Zaidi Adruce (UNIMAS)

Submission Guidelines

Papers are to be submitted electronically online in PDF format via http://www.easychair.org/mjcai2010/ and are limited to 10 pages in length including all figures, references, etc. Papers must be formatted following Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) style Springer. Overlong or incorrectly formatted papers are subject to rejection without review.

Review Process

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the MJCAI 2010 program committee and will be evaluated in two rounds. In the first round a single referee will assess whether a paper is publishable on the basis relevance and standard of readability. Papers accepted in the first round will then be reviewed in more detail by two additional referees. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be via email and will occur no later than 30^th April 2010. Papers will be accepted as either full written papers with an oral presentation or as short papers with a poster presentation. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their work at the conference (note that failure to present a full-written paper may result in disqualification from submission to future MJCAI conferences).

Multiple Submission Policy

Papers submitted to this conference must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another conference (with the exception of specialized workshops). Papers found not to meet these requirements are subject to rejection without review.

Publication

Full and short papers accepted for presentation at MJCAI 2010 will be published as conference proceedings. To cover publication costs at least one author per paper must register for the conference. Additional publication fees will be incurred for authors registering to present more than one paper.

For further details please contact:

MJCAI-2010

c/o Dr. Dickson Lukose

Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC) Tel: +60 3 8995 5054
MIMOS BERHAD Fax: +60 3 8657 9422

Technology Park Malaysia Email: mjcai2010(at)mimos.my

Kuala Lumpur, 57000, Malaysia Website: www.mimos.my/mjcai2010