CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

Sixth National Conference on Information Technology Education

NCITE 2008, UP Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
October 23-24, 2008
http://www.psite.org.ph/

The National Conference on Information Technology Education (NCITE) provides a venue to present innovative
ideas, approaches, developments and results of research projects in the areas of Information Technology and Technology-based Education. The conference also promotes the exchange of information between researchers, faculty, administrators, and I.T. practitioners.

View Prof. Duldulao's interview about the implementation of SystemOne.

Four ICS research posters have been accepted for presentation at the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) after a rigorous review by the committee members of NAST's different technical forums. The 30th ASM will be held at the Manila Hotel on 9-10 July 2008. The research posters are:

1. Training-Less Optical Recognition of Printed Characters Using Equation Fitting by R.M. Matugas and J.P. PABICO. Forum: Chemical, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Division.
2. Visualizing Relationships in Hypertext Documents Using Quasi-Hierarchical Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space by T.J.K.P. Monserrat and J.P. PABICO. Forum: Engineering Sciences and Technology Division.

Announcing the offering of Real-time Video Analysis (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 1st Semester 2008-2009.

Description

The course is an introduction to digital image processing with special emphasis on real-time processing of image sequences directly coming from camera hardware. This image sequence is a large river of data, requiring very efficient methods that can process the data faster than its arrival.

Six ICS research papers will be presented at various national and international scientific conferences to be held in January to March 2008. These are:

1. Recognition of Gene Acceptor Site via Ensemble Boosting by J.R.L. Micor, E.R.E. Mojica and J.P. Pabico to be presented as poster paper at the 10th Eurasia Conference on Chemical Sciences (EuAsC2S-10) in Manila on 07-11 January 2008.
2. Grain Classification and Grading Based on Fourier Descriptor by F.M. Moncada and V.Y. Mariano to be presented as oral paper at the 8th Philippine Computing Science Congress (PCSC 2008) in University of the Philippines Diliman on 23-24 February 2008.

courses@UPLB, the course management system (CMS) for UPLB, is now (experimentally) online. The CMS is a customized moodle, a free, open-source CMS for online learning. UPLB faculty members, students and staff can access courses@UPLB at http://courses.uplb.edu.ph.

Congratulations ICS Dancers!!!!

• Ralph Selga
• Kimson Wong
• Aaron Medina
• Jaymie Gomez
• Aldrin Dorado
• Bryan Mayor
• Jolas Laureles
• Dexter Carrasco
• Katherine Joy de Leon
• Roselle Elefante
• Ailea Kathleen Garcia
• Angelique Galang
• Ma. Christina Salipot
• Arriane Joy Marteja