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AIMST Produces Quality ICT Graduates
THREE to four decades ago, nobody could have imagined that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) would bring tremendous changes to our lives.
ICT is vital in many sectors such as banking and commerce, marketing, health care services, communications, entertainment, transportation, natural resources management, waste management, robotics and manufacturing and space exploration.
AIMST's degree programmes in Computer Science and Information Technology are designed to meet the challenges in the current ICT trend.
A three-year degree programme in Computer Science, with a specialisation either in software engineering, networking or multimedia is blended with other engineering flavour to produce graduates who can meet the current industrial requirements.
Apart from this degree programme, AIMST also offers three degree programmes in Information Technology: Bachelor of Information Technology (Information Systems), Bachelor of Information Technology (Management) and Bachelor of Information Technology (Multimedia Systems).
The Bachelor of Information Technology (Information Systems) programme
is aimed at producing graduates who are capable of managing complex information systems.
The Bachelor of Information Technology (Management) programme is aimed at producing graduates who are capable of using, designing, developing and managing complex information systems in a business organisation.
The Bachelor of Information Technology (Multimedia Systems) programme will enable students to gain insight into more aesthetic aspects of modern multimedia system implementations.
Besides these degree programmes, AIMST also offers a two-and-a- half year diploma programme in computer networking.
For more information, visit www.aimst.edu.my
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AUCMS Planning Large Satellite Campus in Kulim Hi-Tech Park
News Straits Times
By Looi Soo Chern
24 April 2011
THE Allianze University College of Medical Science (AUCMS) in Kepala Batas, Penang, has its own way of doing things. Adopting the best practices of other medical schools worldwide, AUCMS' medical programmes are unique.
The programmes are carefully planned and structured to ensure students are taught and trained in everything they need to know to excel in their selected disciplines, may it be medicine or allied health science fields such as nursing, pharmacy and physiotherapy.
At AUCMS, the study of medicine is both local and international, in the sense that students undergo their pre-clinical and clinical years here while having the option of going abroad for short clinical training stints.
The arrangement is to ensure that students receive a quality assured medical education, which is under the close watch of the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC).
AUCMS president Datuk Dr Zainuddin Wazir said it was necessary for aspiring medical students to understand that there were many issues with studying medicine abroad such as the foreign learning and training environment, and language and cultural barriers, apart from economic factors.
He said it was not true that medical students must pursue their first degrees overseas, and that graduates from abroad were always better than those who pursued their medical education and training locally.
'The medical programmes in some countries are not up to the standards set by MMC, which explains why some housemen can't perform basic procedures like injecting patients in hospitals.
'Students who choose to study locally can be assured of the standards observed here. Overseas exposure can always be pursued when they decide to further their studies to the postgraduate level,' said Dr Zainuddin.
He said he himself along with AUCMS vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Mohamad Abd Razak and medical faculty Dean Dr Badrul Akmal Hisham Md Yusoff obtained their first degrees locally.
With the objective of giving students the best of both worlds, AUCMS offers twinning medical degree programmes with Indonesia's Universitas Sumatera Utara (MD-USU), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (MD-UKM), University College Cork, Ireland (MD-UCC), and National University of Ireland, Galway (MD-NUIG), as well as its very own MD- AUCMS.
AUCMS is planning to offer the MD-USU degree 100 per cent locally at its new RM15 million campus in Kangar, Perlis.
Students taking the five-year programme will be able to undergo their pre-clinical studies in Malaysia instead of spending three- and-a-half years at USU in Medan, Indonesia.
Dr Zainuddin said the USU senate had evaluated AUCMS' teaching standards and facilities and hopefully in two years, the degree could be done here completely.
'Next year will be the 10th year we are offering the MD-USU. It is time to move things here. We are now pending approval from the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) and if all goes well, we may be able to start in September this year in our existing campus in Kepala Batas first,' he said, adding that even though it was an Indonesian medical degree, the standard was high and the marketability of MD-USU holders have never been an issue.
He said AUCMS would soon be unveiling the Kangar campus, which would house laboratories, medical clinics, teaching facilities and accommodations for over 150 students and lecturers.
On the MD-UKM degree, which AUCMS was offering for the second year, Dr Zainuddin said AUCMS students had been showing very encouraging results, performing as well as their UKM peers.
Its first batch of 33 students were now in their clinical year, training in the Kulim Hospital, Kepala Batas Hospital and Alor Star Hospital.
AUCMS also has big plans for its MD-UKM programme, with a large satellite campus in the Kulim Hi-Tech Park in Kedah in the pipeline.
The site for the campus has been identified and the premises will host the university-college's laboratory research activities.
'We are also planning to relocate some of our faculties to the new campus, which we hope can start running in September,' he said.
On the new MD-AUCMS degree, Dr Zainuddin said it was a unique programme, which offered students here international exposure through clinical attachments, elective postings and transfer programmes at medical institutions in Russia, India, the Middle East, Australia and the United Kingdom.
'We allow our students to select which countries they want to go for their clinical training for a period as short as one month or as long as three to six months to learn all they can about the medical scenario overseas for the advancement of their studies and careers,' he said.
A flexible programme, the MD-AUCMS is also open to mature students, who already hold degrees in other fields like engineering but are interested to pursue medicine.
Credit transfers are also accepted at AUCMS for those who wish to move to the university-college from other schools including those from overseas to pursue medicine.
'For those who decide to stop half-way in our MD-AUCMS programme, they will not leave empty-handed. They will be awarded a diploma but if they undergo six months of industrial training, they will obtain a degree,' he said.
UMP Jalin Kerjasama dengan TM
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DR. Daing Mohd. Nasir Daing Ibrahim (kiri) bertukar dokumen dengan Kairul Annuar Mohamed Zamzam pada Majlis Menandatangani Perjanjian Perkhidmatan Metro.E dan TM Wifi di Gambang, Kuantan, baru-baru ini. |
KUANTAN 15 Feb. - Seramai 8,000 pelajar termasuk kakitangan Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) di sini menikmati kemudahan teknologi komunikasi maklumat (ICT) yang lebih efektif ekoran pelaksanaan projek menaik taraf rangkaian kampus berkenaan dengan penyambungan Metro-Ethernet (Metro.E) dan teknologi Internet tanpa wayar (Wifi).
Ia dilakukan dengan kerjasama Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) sekali gus menjadikan UMP sebagai universiti pertama dengan jumlah pengguna terbesar yang memegang status 'kampus digital' di pantai timur.
Naib Canselornya, Profesor Datuk Dr. Daing Mohd. Nasir Daing Ibrahim berkata, kemudahan tersebut dapat menghubungkan dua kampus UMP di Pekan dan Gambang di sini selain pelajar berpeluang mengakses Internet dengan lebih pantas di kampus.
"Dengan perkhidmatan itu, dua kampus UMP dapat beroperasi seperti satu kampus walaupun jarak kampus Induk dengan tempat ini kira-kira 60 kilometer, malah pelajar, pensyarah dan penyelidik dapat mengakses aplikasi atas talian, sumber penyelidikan serta berhubung antara rakan kakitangan dengan hanya satu talian.
"Selain itu, sistem Wifi pula menjadi satu alternatif terbaik kepada pelajar mengakses Internet selain kemudahan rangkaian berwayar yang disediakan di bilik asrama mereka," katanya kepada pemberita selepas Menandatangani Perjanjian Perkhidmatan Metro.E dan TM Wifi antara UMP dan TM di Gambang, di sini baru-baru ini.
Perjanjian tersebut ditandatangani Naib Canselor UMP dan Naib Presiden Eksekutif TM Kerajaan, Datuk Kairul Annuar Mohamed Zamzam.
Daing berkata, perkhidmatan Wifi buat masa ini hanya disediakan di kampus Gambang di sini, namun kerjasama antara UMP dan TM akan dikembangkan bagi menambah nilai perkhidmatan ICT.
Sementara itu, Kairul Anuar berkata, penggunaan Metro.E yang menghubungkan dua kampus UMP telah diuji sejak 2009 dan ia mula dilaksanakan sepenuhnya pada tahun lalu serentak dengan perkhidmatan Wifi.
"Metro.E adalah sebuah rangkaian perhubungan gentian yang berkelajuan tinggi dengan kapasiti 40 megabait persaat (Mbps) serta menawarkan jaminan teknologi termaju tanpa sempadan manakala perkhidmatan Wifi pula adalah untuk tempoh lima tahun," katanya.
Dalam majlis berkenaan, Kairul Anuar turut menyampaikan sumbangan RM10,000 untuk tabung kebajikan 1Malaysia UMP bertujuan membantu pelajar yang kurang berkemampuan dari segi kewangan.
UMS-UTeM Tingkat Kerjasama ICT
KOTA KINABALU 1 Feb. - Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) dan Universiti Teknikal Malaysia
Melaka (UTeM) akan meningkatkan kerjasama pembangunan teknologi, komunikasi dan maklumat
OCT) berkaitan sistem maklumat pelajar. Naib Canselor UMS, Prof Datuk Dr. Kamaruzaman
Ampon berkata, kerjasama kedua-dua universiti tersebut dalam pengurusan data pelajar
akan bermula daripada peringkat pengambilan sehingga pelajar terscbut menamatkan pengajian.
"Kerryasama ini penting NO mewujudkan sistern penyampaian yang ekktif clan efisien. Dengan
peningkatan jumlah pelajar setiap tahun, i.a menuntut sistem yang Icbih canggih seiring abaran
semasa" katanya. Beliau berkata demikian selepas mewakili UMS menandatangani memorandum persefahaman (MoU) bersama UTeM yang diwakili oleh Naib Canselomya, Prof. Datuk Dr. Ahmad Yusoff Hassan di sini hari ini. Kamaruzaman berkata, pihaknya yakin, kerjasama itu dapat membantu UMS menempatkan diri sebagai salah sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi awam terkemuka di negara ini. Dalam pada itu, Ahmad berkata, kerjasama itu memberi peluang kedua-dua pihak meningkatkan kualitt ststem maklumat sedia ada bagi memastikan ia mampu beroperasi dengan sempuma walaupun dalam keadaan yang lebih kompleks. Katanya, input yang diberikan sepanjang pengoperasian ststem terdahulu amat penting dalam merencanakan tindakan susulan untuk menambah balk sistem pengurusan maklumat pelajar
berkenaan. "Alhamdulillah, segala perancangan, usaha dan strategi yang diatur dalam pelaksanaan sistcm maklumat pclajar ini telah membuahkan hasil di mana sistem ini telah bcrjaya dilaksanakan peringkat demi peringkat; katanya. Beliau berharap hubungan erat antara kedua- dua universiti itu tidak akan terhenti, sebaliknya diperluaskan ke bidang lain.
Melaka (UTeM) akan meningkatkan kerjasama pembangunan teknologi, komunikasi dan maklumat
OCT) berkaitan sistem maklumat pelajar. Naib Canselor UMS, Prof Datuk Dr. Kamaruzaman
Ampon berkata, kerjasama kedua-dua universiti tersebut dalam pengurusan data pelajar
akan bermula daripada peringkat pengambilan sehingga pelajar terscbut menamatkan pengajian.
"Kerryasama ini penting NO mewujudkan sistern penyampaian yang ekktif clan efisien. Dengan
peningkatan jumlah pelajar setiap tahun, i.a menuntut sistem yang Icbih canggih seiring abaran
semasa" katanya. Beliau berkata demikian selepas mewakili UMS menandatangani memorandum persefahaman (MoU) bersama UTeM yang diwakili oleh Naib Canselomya, Prof. Datuk Dr. Ahmad Yusoff Hassan di sini hari ini. Kamaruzaman berkata, pihaknya yakin, kerjasama itu dapat membantu UMS menempatkan diri sebagai salah sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi awam terkemuka di negara ini. Dalam pada itu, Ahmad berkata, kerjasama itu memberi peluang kedua-dua pihak meningkatkan kualitt ststem maklumat sedia ada bagi memastikan ia mampu beroperasi dengan sempuma walaupun dalam keadaan yang lebih kompleks. Katanya, input yang diberikan sepanjang pengoperasian ststem terdahulu amat penting dalam merencanakan tindakan susulan untuk menambah balk sistem pengurusan maklumat pelajar
berkenaan. "Alhamdulillah, segala perancangan, usaha dan strategi yang diatur dalam pelaksanaan sistcm maklumat pclajar ini telah membuahkan hasil di mana sistem ini telah bcrjaya dilaksanakan peringkat demi peringkat; katanya. Beliau berharap hubungan erat antara kedua- dua universiti itu tidak akan terhenti, sebaliknya diperluaskan ke bidang lain.
Introduction of FSKM ICT Week 2010
Come join over 1000 participants from future knowledge workers in Malaysia and users in the IT carnival which concentrate on green technology which will be held on 24th March 2010 to 27th March 2010 at Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematical, University Technology MARA, Shah Alam Selangor.
IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL is heralded as the platform for “gathering of tribes” of IT communities, as well as businesses, academicians and its’ communities to share and show off their thoughts, experiences, ideas and projects. By end of the event, it will create awareness to the meaning and importance of “IS and IT Going Green” and also cultivating individuals and organization towards the same direction. As the meat of the event is its presentations and discussions, we have allocated 6 speaking slots opportunities. Drawing on a huge community we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.
IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL is organized by an Executive Committee comprised of volunteers from FSKM student UiTM. As such, it requires support through strategic partnerships that will assist it in fulfilling its role.
IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL offers a dynamic opportunity to strengthen your organization’s exposure to your key target markets.
IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL is heralded as the platform for “gathering of tribes” of IT communities, as well as businesses, academicians and its’ communities to share and show off their thoughts, experiences, ideas and projects. By end of the event, it will create awareness to the meaning and importance of “IS and IT Going Green” and also cultivating individuals and organization towards the same direction. As the meat of the event is its presentations and discussions, we have allocated 6 speaking slots opportunities. Drawing on a huge community we will discuss some of the most current and poignant topics in the industry today.
IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL is organized by an Executive Committee comprised of volunteers from FSKM student UiTM. As such, it requires support through strategic partnerships that will assist it in fulfilling its role.
IS AND IT GOING GREEN CARNIVAL offers a dynamic opportunity to strengthen your organization’s exposure to your key target markets.
Problematic Software Courts Disaster, Says ICT Expert
BANGI, 21 Feb. 2011 – Software with problems can cause disaster if they are not detected, tested and rectified in a framework of quality certification, says an ICT expert here today.
Prof Dr Aziz Deraman, who is the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), said softwares, like humans, are always exposed to diseases like heart attack which can be prevented if it is detected early.
He cited the case of the “SCUD vs Patriot” missiles during the Gulf War where 20 American soldiers were killed and 100 others injured when their Patriot guided missile missed hitting the Iraqi’s SCUD missile as an example where software with problems had brought about disasters.
An arithmetic rectification found that the time calculated for the Patriot to hit the SCUD was 0.34 seconds late and that even though corrections had been made earlier, it was not done to all its programming codes, said Prof Dr Aziz when delivering his inaugural professorial lecture titled “In Search for Quality Software”.
In the case of the rocket launcher Ariane 5 disaster in June 1996, the rocket exploded 40 seconds after take-off because the software specifications for Ariane 4 were used for Ariane 5 when the specifications of the two rockets were different.
"Pre-launch tests on the software were not conducted until the actual launch,” said Prof Dr Aziz who had served in UKM in various capacities for 28 years, including as Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Technology before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of UMT last year.
He said with the ever-growing dependence on software, the challenges for research in search of quality software were to safeguard the harmony between the software and users; to detect software “illnesses” before disasters strike and to face the situation of attempting to measure the unmeasurable.
But the biggest challenge in the search for quality software was to try to measure the software because “we cannot control what we cannot measure”.For this reason, several approaches had been developed to try to measure the quality of software such as quantitative values to explain a certain phenomenon; matrix size of the software which is getting less and less relevant and user evaluation that is directed at only external factors and matrix as a measurement of “quality software”. Prof Aziz, who had held the post of Deputy Director of the UKM Computer Centre, said the approach they had used to evaluate the software quality of the university’s Centre for Information Technology was based on “Goal/Question/Matrix” or GQM which is a technique to identify the important matrix in the lifespan of the software. .
This approach could lead to the certification of the software by a third party similar to ISO certification, said Prof Dr Aziz who was born at di Kampong Tok ku, Cabang Tiga Kuala Terengganu in 1959.
He had his primary education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Pusat Cabang Tiga Kuala Terengganu and secondary education at Sekolah Menengah Sains Pahang before doing his matriculation at Sekolah Alam Shah.
He was offered a place to do medicine at UKM but he switched to Computer Science where he graduated with his first degree in 1982. He obtained his Masters from Glasgow University in 1984 and his PhD from UMIST Manchester in 1992.
Apart from his lectures and research works and publications, Prof Aziz is also active with organisations outside the campus where he had served as advisor, panel member and consultant in ICT. He has to date supervised 37 Master students and 20 PhD candidates.
Universiti Malaysia Perlis Secures and Optimizes Web Experience for 8,500 Users with Blue Coat ProxySG Appliances
SUNNYVALE, Calif., November 16, 2010 – Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCSI), the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), one of Malaysia’s top engineering universities, has deployed Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances with Blue Coat WebFilter to secure and optimize the Web experience for 8,500 users. With the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances, UniMAP can define flexible Web access policies while mitigating the impact of bandwidth-intensive, rich-media applications such as video, resulting in lower management costs, improved application performance and greater Web security.
“We need to protect our users from Web threats and other malicious content while providing optimal application performance and readily available Internet access across our distributed campus,” said Hj Nasrudin Abd Shukor, director of the Information Communication and Technology Center at UniMAP. “The Blue Coat products meet the high expectations of our community of academics, students and administrators and allow me to utilize my staff more efficiently, giving me peace of mind.”
UniMAP deployed the solution across its campuses in three days and can now easily define and alter policies based on users, content, groups and times of day with the ProxySG appliances. With the ability to categorize every URL into up to four categories, WebFilter gives UniMAP the granular visibility into Web content that allows it to create flexible access policies without overblocking content.
Additionally, WebFilter is supported by the cloud-based Blue Coat WebPulse™ service, which rates new content in real-time and immediately applies definedpolicies, freeing IT security officers to focus on more strategic objectives. The WebPulse service provides on-demand security intelligence based on real-time URL requests from 70 million users worldwide to quickly identify new Web content, including malware and other malicious content. The discovery of malware by one user immediately protects all users, providing UniMAP with greater security than it would have on its own.
In addition to providing flexible control of Web content and a first line of defense against malware, the ProxySG appliances are uniquely adept at managing video traffic. Advanced functionality, including stream splitting and video caching, minimize the impact of video on the network by reducing the number of video streams that need to be downloaded. By optimizing video traffic, Blue Coat appliances free up bandwidth for other applications and improve the Web experience for all UniMAP users.
“The deployment of the ProxySG appliances has enabled Universiti Malaysia Perlis to get more value out of its network for the benefit of the entire organization,” said Nick Nindra, managing director for ASEAN, Blue Coat Systems. “In keeping malware at bay and recreational applications under control, the University has improved Web performance and security, so university staff and students can take advantage of the latest applications and technologies, including video.”
UTP and MIMOS to Collaborate on Grid Computering, MEMS and Software Testing
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MIMOS Berhad to collaborate on three research areas - Grid Computing, Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Software Testing.
The collaboration involves two programmes in UTP – Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EE) and Computer Information Sciences (CIS) – and MIMOS Test Centre of Excellence (MIMOS TestCOE), MIMOS Grid Computing Cluster and MIMOS Micro Systems and MEMS Cluster.
Under the memorandum, UTP and MIMOS will be working towards:
1. Software Testing via MIMOS TestCOE
3. MEMS via MIMOS Micro Systems and MEMS Centre
Datuk Dr Zainal Abidin Haji Kasim said, “For the past two years, UTP has been actively pursuing various collaborations with a number of universities and research institutions, local and abroad, in line with our effort to ascertain global recognition. Collaborations with carefully selected partners would provide an opportunity for both parties to work together on common grounds to achieve our common goals.”
It is expected that through this agreement, it will pave the way towards an enhanced relationship between the industry and the academia in creating a pool of educated and trained human capital. It will also strengthen the existing collaborative works and spur many more new collaborative works between the two organisations.
“As the premier applied research centre in frontier technologies, MIMOS has consistently collaborated and will continue to do so with various local universities in efforts to not only power these institutes as our virtual researchers but also to mold our local graduates into domain experts via graduate placement programmes to better prepare them for a career in the research and development industry,” said Dato’ Abdul Wahab Abdullah, President & CEO, MIMOS Berhad.
“Our host of long-standing collaborations with UTP further strengthens MIMOS' network of dedicated partners and underscores MIMOS as the preferred partner of choice for developing frontier technology platforms as we work towards growing globally competitive indigenous industries,” he said.
Some of the existing on-going collaborations between UTP and MIMOS include student internships in MIMOS TestCOE since 2007 on Usability and Performance Testing; External Examiners Programme since 2008 where MIMOS TestCOE researchers evaluates students’ final year projects while providing feedback as per industry benchmarks; Adjunct Lecturers Programme since 2008 where UTP and MIMOS share knowledge on the latest happenings in the software testing and development industry.
At the MoU signing ceremony, UTP was represented by its Rector, Datuk Dr Zainal Abidin Hj Kasim while MIMOS was represented by its Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy, Realisation and Operations, En Abdul Aziz Abdul Kadir.
The signing ceremony was further witnessed by Associate Professor Dr Abdul Rashid Abdul Aziz, Director, Research Enterprise Office, UTP and Professor Dr Masuri Othman, Head of Micro Systems and MEMS, MIMOS.
UTM spent RM500,000 to fight virus attacks
JOHOR BARU: The war against computer viruses does not come cheap. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has spent close to RM500,000 on cyber security protection.
The university also conducted a month long campaign on anti-virus awareness among its administration staff in April.
UTM Centre for ICT director Prof Zamri Mohamad said the campaign included the installation of hardware and software protection as well as updating the operating systems (OS).
“We also arranged for talks on healthy ICT lifestyle for our staff so that they realise it may not be safe to visit sites that are not secure,” he said, adding that the university currently had 10 servers alone for anti-virus protection which were updated daily.
The Star had reported on Thursday that the university had been facing a spate of virus attacks that targeted around 6,000 computers belonging to both the university and students.
Prof Zamri said the university also conducted demonstrations on how computers should be maintained and created a website, www.antivirus.utm.my, through the intranet system.
Students with their own personal computers have also been encouraged to obtain the anti-virus protection from the university free of charge.
UTM was also looking towards moving its entire software system from Windows to Open Source as there were fewer viruses created for it.
Prof Zamri said that with viruses and hackers getting increasingly sophisticated, the idea of owning a computer was not the same as owning a radio.
“It is more like owning a car as you need to learn how to operate it. You also need to constantly service and upgrade it,” he said.
According to him, UTM was considering the possibility of making its students and staff obtain a “licence” before they are allowed to use the computers on campus.
The university also conducted a month long campaign on anti-virus awareness among its administration staff in April.
UTM Centre for ICT director Prof Zamri Mohamad said the campaign included the installation of hardware and software protection as well as updating the operating systems (OS).
“We also arranged for talks on healthy ICT lifestyle for our staff so that they realise it may not be safe to visit sites that are not secure,” he said, adding that the university currently had 10 servers alone for anti-virus protection which were updated daily.
The Star had reported on Thursday that the university had been facing a spate of virus attacks that targeted around 6,000 computers belonging to both the university and students.
Prof Zamri said the university also conducted demonstrations on how computers should be maintained and created a website, www.antivirus.utm.my, through the intranet system.
Students with their own personal computers have also been encouraged to obtain the anti-virus protection from the university free of charge.
UTM was also looking towards moving its entire software system from Windows to Open Source as there were fewer viruses created for it.
Prof Zamri said that with viruses and hackers getting increasingly sophisticated, the idea of owning a computer was not the same as owning a radio.
“It is more like owning a car as you need to learn how to operate it. You also need to constantly service and upgrade it,” he said.
According to him, UTM was considering the possibility of making its students and staff obtain a “licence” before they are allowed to use the computers on campus.
Bengkel Microsoft Word 2007
KUALA TERENGGANU – Bahagian Pembangunan Sumber, Seksyen Latihan Jangka Pendek & Induksi, Jabatan Pendaftar, Universiti Darul Iman Malaysia (UDM) telah menganjurkan Bengkel Microsoft Office (Word 2007) pada 24- 25 Februari 2009.
Bengkel yang diadakan di Makmal Komputer UDM, Kampus Kota telah dikendalikan oleh Ketua Unit Produksi Multimedia, Puan Norkhairani Binti Abdul Rawi.
Seramai 24 peserta terdiri dari kakitangan berjawatan Pembantu Tadbir (P/O) telah mengikuti bengkel tersebut.
Antara pengisian bengkel tersebut, para peserta telah didedahkan dengan langkah-langkah penggunaan Microsoft Word 2007 seperti menghasilkan dokumen termasuk surat, laporan, kertas cadangan, memo dan buku panduan.
Menurut Puan Norkhairani, Word 2007 dapat membantu peserta dalam menghasilkan dokumen yang lebih kemas, teratur, menarik dan juga mampu melicinkan lagi kerja-kerja pejabat.
UMT Signs Aggreements with Telekom Malaysia for Broadband Capacity Upgrade
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) hari ini telah memeterai perjanjian dengan Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) bagi menaiktaraf kapasiti perkhidmatan jalur lebar TM Direct dari 16Mbps ke 45Mbps.
Dengan peningkatan kapasiti capaian Internet ke 45Mbps ini, UMT akan berupaya meningkatkan keberkesanan sistem operasinya di seluruh kampus termasuk semua jabatan dan dewan kuliah.
Di majlis ini, TM telah diwakili oleh Y.Bhg Dato’ Adnan Rofiee, Ketua Pegawai Operasi, TM Retail, Malaysia Business, TM manakala UMT diwakili oleh Y.Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sulaiman Bin Md Yassin, Naib Canselor, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu .
Perkhidmatan jalur lebar TM Direct yang disediakan oleh TM ini akan memberikan UMT capaian Internet berkelajuan tinggi yang dapat memenuhi segala keperluannya sebagai sebuah organisasi pendidikan yang mementingkan kualiti dan sentiasa mengorak langkah untuk maju kehadapan. Sehubungan dengan itu, teknologi telekomunikasi yang baik dan keselesaan dalam mengakses maklumat dari Internet bukan sahaja akan menambah pengetahuan pihak pengurusan, tenaga pengajar dan pelajarnya, tetapi ia juga dapat meningkatkan prestasi dan daya saing UMT dalam sektor pendidikan global yang semakin kompetetif.
Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sulaiman Md Yassin dalam ucapannya berkata, ” Kami berharap dengan penaiktarafan infrastruktur ini, pelajar UMT akan dapat menerapkan gaya hidup digital masa kini, sekaligus memperolehi pencapaian yang cemerlang dalam pengkhususan pengajian masing-masing”.
Berucap di majlis tersebut, Dato’ Adnan Rofiee berkata, “Penyediaan perkhidmatan litar suwa jalur lebar TM Direct daripada TM ini adalah bertepatan pada masanya kerana ia dapat menyokong pembangunan UMT, disamping meningkatkan keberkesanan pengurusan dan sistem pentadbiran jabatan-jabatan di seluruh kampus”.
”Selain capaian Internet yang laju, TM juga turut menyediakan perkhidmatan-perkhidmatan tambah nilai seperti “web hosting” dan “storage access network” kepada UMT. Dengan ini, UMT akan dapat menyediakan kemudahan ICT yang menyeluruh kepada pelajar-pelajarnya. Selain dari itu, pihak UMT juga akan dapat menikmati penjimatan kos mengurus dan menyelenggara rangkaian datanya kerana ianya akan dipantau dan diselenggarakan sepenuhnya oleh TM melalui Pusat Operasi Rangkaiannya yang berpusat di Kuala Lumpur”, tambah Dato’ Adnan.
Majlis yang diadakan pada hari ini juga merupakan salah satu usaha TM dalam menyokong usaha Kerajaan merealisasikan matlamat penubuhan Wilayah Pembangunan Ekonomi Koridor Pantai Timur (ECER). ECER yang dilancarkan secara rasmi oleh YAB. Dato’ Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Perdana Menteri Malaysia pada 29 Oktober 2007 di Kuala Terengganu menumpukan kepada tiga sektor utama iaitu Pertanian, Pelancongan dan Pendidikan.
Dengan peningkatan kapasiti capaian Internet ke 45Mbps ini, UMT akan berupaya meningkatkan keberkesanan sistem operasinya di seluruh kampus termasuk semua jabatan dan dewan kuliah.
Di majlis ini, TM telah diwakili oleh Y.Bhg Dato’ Adnan Rofiee, Ketua Pegawai Operasi, TM Retail, Malaysia Business, TM manakala UMT diwakili oleh Y.Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sulaiman Bin Md Yassin, Naib Canselor, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu .
Perkhidmatan jalur lebar TM Direct yang disediakan oleh TM ini akan memberikan UMT capaian Internet berkelajuan tinggi yang dapat memenuhi segala keperluannya sebagai sebuah organisasi pendidikan yang mementingkan kualiti dan sentiasa mengorak langkah untuk maju kehadapan. Sehubungan dengan itu, teknologi telekomunikasi yang baik dan keselesaan dalam mengakses maklumat dari Internet bukan sahaja akan menambah pengetahuan pihak pengurusan, tenaga pengajar dan pelajarnya, tetapi ia juga dapat meningkatkan prestasi dan daya saing UMT dalam sektor pendidikan global yang semakin kompetetif.
Prof. Dato’ Dr. Sulaiman Md Yassin dalam ucapannya berkata, ” Kami berharap dengan penaiktarafan infrastruktur ini, pelajar UMT akan dapat menerapkan gaya hidup digital masa kini, sekaligus memperolehi pencapaian yang cemerlang dalam pengkhususan pengajian masing-masing”.
Berucap di majlis tersebut, Dato’ Adnan Rofiee berkata, “Penyediaan perkhidmatan litar suwa jalur lebar TM Direct daripada TM ini adalah bertepatan pada masanya kerana ia dapat menyokong pembangunan UMT, disamping meningkatkan keberkesanan pengurusan dan sistem pentadbiran jabatan-jabatan di seluruh kampus”.
”Selain capaian Internet yang laju, TM juga turut menyediakan perkhidmatan-perkhidmatan tambah nilai seperti “web hosting” dan “storage access network” kepada UMT. Dengan ini, UMT akan dapat menyediakan kemudahan ICT yang menyeluruh kepada pelajar-pelajarnya. Selain dari itu, pihak UMT juga akan dapat menikmati penjimatan kos mengurus dan menyelenggara rangkaian datanya kerana ianya akan dipantau dan diselenggarakan sepenuhnya oleh TM melalui Pusat Operasi Rangkaiannya yang berpusat di Kuala Lumpur”, tambah Dato’ Adnan.
Majlis yang diadakan pada hari ini juga merupakan salah satu usaha TM dalam menyokong usaha Kerajaan merealisasikan matlamat penubuhan Wilayah Pembangunan Ekonomi Koridor Pantai Timur (ECER). ECER yang dilancarkan secara rasmi oleh YAB. Dato’ Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Perdana Menteri Malaysia pada 29 Oktober 2007 di Kuala Terengganu menumpukan kepada tiga sektor utama iaitu Pertanian, Pelancongan dan Pendidikan.
FSKTM Students Represented UPM in Imagine Cup
Three students from the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FSKTM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), were selected to represent UPM at the 2011 Malaysia Imagine Cup competition recently.
Namely the Green P, they created the 'Botanic Sustainability Smart System', a web based software to identify the type of soil and suitable plants that can be planted with it. A second year student in Bachelor of Computer Science (Computer Networks), Mohamad Najib said the idea to develop the software was drawn from the famine situation in Africa. Thus we are inspired to help them in identifying suitable crops for their land. "It took us almost two months to develop this system as well as data collected from the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry (MOA), Institute for Research and Development Institute (MARDI) and assisted by Prof. Dr. Kamaruzaman Joseph from the Faculty of Forestry, "he said at the Malaysia 2011 Imagine Cup competition at the Pullman Hotel, Kuching. In addition, the system is able to analyze the crop price index, which enables those involved in the agricultural industry to determine their budget in order to initiate agricultural projects. Meanwhile, WASPending developed software that combines the teaching of general knowledge, science and math, and also a hero character as well as focused history for students aged 10 to 12 years old. WASPending team leader, Wong Ching Yee said the system called 'Challenge the Difference "was developed in the form of games and educational software. "I hope that this software will draw attention from the children’s education related industry," he said. His friend, Tan Wee Chong, a final year student of Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Engineering) from The Frontiers said his group developed 'The 1 Cent Project' a micro donation system that integrates with telecommunication companies to further promote the culture of giving among students. "Students can donate as low as one cent, and the use of the software can be promoted by the telecommunications company as a community service program (CSR). "By using this system, users can select their donation to be distributed for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the amount to be donated and the identification number and the data will be verified by the telecommunication companies after obtaining confirmation," he said. The 2011 Imagine Cup is a technology competition between the students of the Institution of Higher Education in promoting solutions to global problems. The competition aims to produce talented students in the world of software designers, programmers, game developers and digital media enthusiasts and simultaneously addressing issues related to humanitarian assistance, poverty, education, disease control, health, environment and global issues. | ||||||||
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UM and UPM Enhance Learning Facilities and Empower Student Lives with 4G Mobile Internet
Kuala Lumpur, 13 September 2010 – Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Universiti Malaya (UM) today joined the Education Partner Program (EPP) spearheaded by YTL Communications Sdn Bhd (YTL Comms). Under the program, both universities will apply the power of 4G Mobile Internet campus-wide to give their students cutting-edge learning facilities and further enhance the quality of life on campus for both students and academic staff.
UM plans to utilise YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network to boost research activities and be among the top 100 universities in the world
UPM and UM are the third and fourth local university respectively to join the EPP program in the last two months after UTM and UTAR. All twenty of Malaysia’s public universities and selected private universities are expected to join the program by the end of the year.
“We want the students to access our enterprise, learning and research services from anywhere and at anytime and therefore we are pleased to partner with YTL Comms to give our students the freedom and the convenience of 4G Mobile Internet,” said Professor Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Nik Mustapha R. Abdullah, Vice Chancellor of UPM.
“We champion the model of Ubiquitous Learning at UPM. This means learning whatever, whenever, wherever. We call it www-learning, which is, incidentally, the way the real Internet should be, too”, said Associate Professor Dr. Suhaimi Napis, CTO and Director, InfoComm Development Centre (iDEC), UPM.
The Ubiquitous Learning Environment (ULE) at UPM, the brainchild of Dr. Suhaimi, relies on the Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN), a high-capacity broadband network that connects universities, colleges, research organisations and scientific laboratories. UPM was one of the founding proposers of this dedicated network that provides a platform for creating research communities and encourages them to exchange ideas and collaborate with international partners.
YTL's 4G Campus-wide Network is set to take UPM's model of Ubiquitous Learning Environment (ULE) even further
While UPM’s ubiquitous learning model relies on MYREN as the foundation, the university also has a number of cloud services that can support blended learning – a mixture of remote and on-premise education. For example, the video collaboration services, 1VideoBridge, make live virtual classes possible, with up to 160 laptops, desktops and other compatible devices connected at one time, where students can interact with the lecturer and each other. We also have uCast, modelled after a popular video-sharing portal to facilitate video-on-demand.
“All this innovation that supports the ubiquitous learning model can’t be fully harnessed by the students without high speed Internet access that is available everywhere and from any device,” said Dr. Suhaimi. “The power of 4G Mobile Internet will create new ways for education to be delivered and we are already working with YTL Comms to enable interoperability between our learning and research cloud services and all platforms, including new Android-based devices, which we are eager to explore.” He added.
Under the EPP partnership, each student will receive FREE converged data and voice services of 300 megabytes per user, on a monthly basis over a period of 3 years at anytime and from anywhere throughout the campus grounds. On top of that, the students will be able to top up their accounts at special student rates.
“UM is currently rated the top ranking university in Malaysia, but it is our mission to see UM among the top 100 universities in the world in the next five years. Our partnership with YTL Comms and participation in the EPP program is a major milestone towards realising this vision,” said Datuk Dr. Ghauth Jasmon, Vice Chancellor of UM.
UM sees 4G Mobile Internet as a perfect tool to enhance students’ lives on campus, too. “The combination of 4G Broadband & Voice service under one account is a great value proposition to our students. When every ringgit needs to be stretched, it helps that our students can use their 300 megabytes of free broadband to make free phone calls, too. Considering that the majority of their calls are made to friends and colleagues on campus, the savings they will be able to realize are substantial,” elaborated Dr. David Asirvatham, Director, Center for Information Technology, UM.
UM is Malaysia’s first public university and a Research University, as designated by the Government. As such, UM actively spearheads a number of research-intensive projects in ICT and Computational Sciences, Biotechnology and Bioproducts, and Health and Translational Medicine in which it applies the power of Grid Computing. However, due to the current bandwidth limitations, the Grid Computing can only extend to the servers at the time being.
“With the superior performance of 4G, that delivers connectivity in megabits instead of the kilobits we currently get with 3G, the power of grid computing can easily extend all the way to desktops and devices, too, significantly improving our research process,” added Dr. David.
“We are very impressed with UPM’s and UM’s vision to create superior academic environments and we are extremely pleased to be their partner in realising this vision,” said Yasmin Mahmood, Executive Director, YTL Communications. “We are building a better Internet for everyone, a 4G Mobile Internet network that truly empowers all people, and we want our students, the leaders of a better tomorrow, to be the first to experience this most advanced Internet technology available today.
ict research platform
ICT Research Platform is embracing on the idea of integrating science & arts with computing. ICT in the past have driven the changes in sciences, it enables and facilitate scientific discovery that can only be effectively done with the help of computers. In the next twenty to fifty years however, it is anticipated that science will drive changes in computing. Hence, it is apparent that interdisciplinary research in ICT is embarked to create innovative and creativity solutions of computational resources to address forefront scientific problems. The ICT research platforms are focusing on developing capabilities that are applicable to multiple disciplines, by undertaking specific, well defined projects, thereby developing tools and approaches that can be generalised and shared. The projects (or clusters) aim to bridge the gap (and thus making contributions in this unaddressed area) that left open by each discipline in their ownright, and hence the focus of the projects undertaken will be on the interdisciplinary applicability of innovative computing across the scientific frontier.
One of such projects is the Grid Services and Application Research Cluster (GSARC), combining expertise from diverse scientific and engineering disciplines the main aims of the project are to grid-enable six seed applications and to train human capital in grid computing. The integration of enhanced grid technology to solve computationally challenging problems (e.g. modeling and predicting the vector borne diseases) on reasonable time scales, and to solve combinatorial explosion of test cases for software testing requires close collaboration between the world of computer science and scientific disciplines. However, the bigger impact of this project is on the fundamental sharing of the experiences gain during the course of integrating grid technologies and applications. GeoHazard Research Mitigation Project (GHRMP) is another example of interdisciplinary research mooted under the ICT Platform. This problem oriented project is focusing on landslide hazard mitigation, it forges deep interdisciplinary collaboration between expertise in School of Physic, Math, Civil Engineering, Distance Education, Education Studies, Mass Communication and Computer Science. What special about this project is the inclusion of social sciences experts in a technical-based research; their role is to study the impacts of landslide events to the community in affected area, while another group look at the mechanism to effectively disseminate vital information to the community in the landslide prone area before, during and after the landslide disaster. Another cross disciplined research project is the Delineation & VRTS project which involves medical experts, pharmacists and computer scientists. The goal is to develop an extensible software platform that could be used by the radiologists to examine medical images and annotate these images, thereby transferring their expertise into a machine-readable format or by computer scientists to develop new image analysis and 3D visualization algorithms that could be helpful in tumor delineation and quantification for clinical research and drug testing.
For Details contact :
Assoc. Prof. Bahari Belaton
Research Dean
Information & Communication Technology Platform
Office of Research Platform
Universiti Sains Malaysia
11800 USM, Penang Malaysia
Tel : 604-653 3083 (Office), 019-5521109 (HP)
Fax : 604-658 4149
Email : bahari-at-cs-usm-my
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