The 5th International Conference on Information and Communication
Technologies was held successfully in December 2013
14-15 December 2013, Karachi, Pakistan
The 5th International Conference on Information and
Communications Technologies (ICICT) was successfully held on 4th-15th of
December, 2013 at IBA Karachi. The theme of conference was:
'Using Technology to Create a Better
World '.
About IBA & Faculty of Computer Science (FCS)
The IBA Faculty of
Computer Science (FCS) was established in 1983 with the collaboration of
IBM (Pakistan). The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) is the
oldest graduate business school outside North America and was
established in April 1955 in collaboration with the Wharton School of
Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania. Later, it was
associated with the University of Southern California. In 1994 IBA's
status was elevated to degree awarding Institute.
The year 2013 is expected to be a transformational year for the Faculty
of Computer Science at IBA, as we witness the completion of the
expansion of the FCS building. A new Hardware Lab and a Networking Lab
have already been commissioned in spring 2013. Additionally an expanded
Robotics/AI Lab along with a Wireless Sensor Lab and Web Sciences Lab
will be part of the expanded 3rd floor. With a completely new
facade, expanded faculty and PhD scholars' offices and a host of
research labs, this new infrastructure is expected to be a milestone in
the journey of the FCS in becoming one of the best such programs in the
region.
During the last couple of years the FCS had a number of commendable
achievements. For the first time in the history of IBA, Convocation 2011
witnessed the graduation of the first PhD in the field of Computer
Science. Dr. Quratulain Rajput was awarded the degree under the
supervision of Dr. Sajjad Haider, with her research interests in
Semantic Web Technologies, Information Extraction and Semantic
Annotation. It is hoped that the award of this degree will mark the
coming of age of the PhD program at the FCS, and that the existing 20
PhD students will continue to prove their mettle on a yearly basis in
the future convocations.
Karachi Koalas, the joint
RoboCup Soccer team (3D Simulation League) of Institute of Business
Administration and University of Technology, Sydney, continued to
achieve remarkable progress in the
World RoboCup competitions. In 2012 Karachi Koalas and reached the Top 10
stage of the competition, up 6 ranks from 2011. The competition was held
in Mexico City during June 2012. During this exciting journey, Karachi
Koalas defeated a number of teams from China and Japan and drew against
teams from UK, Germany and Turkey. Subsequently, the IBA AI Lab is also
expected to receive the second state-of-the-art humanoid Nao robot,
which will prove invaluable for future research.
On the research front, the FCS contributed significantly towards top
quality journal research papers indexed by ISI Thompson. The FCS also
saw the first formal signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with an
International university - the Multimedia University (MMU) in Malaysia.
This collaboration is expected to facilitate joint research programs
such as partnering in research, conferences and exchanges of students,
faculty and other related academic staff for research and study between
the two universities. In addition, a Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) Lab
was also established to enable state of the art research in various
areas of wireless sensor network technologies.
Finally, we expect that the changes taking place will continue to drive
the Faculty during 2013 and beyond. During the last two years the
student intake of BS (Computer Science) program continued its meteoric
rise and more than doubled as compared to the previous two years. The BS
(Economics and Mathematics) was also launched in 2011 which was a joint
effort between the Faculty of Business Administration and the FCS.
Additionally the size of the BS program is planned to further increase
with on-going preparations for launching a new BS program in Information
Systems. This new program is expected to cater to the needs of the IT
industry which has clearly indicated a demand for consultants and IT
specialists with soft skills.
The last ICICT conference
in 2011 was a major success and continued to attract local as well as
international visitors with keynote speakers from a number of countries
including UK, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Denmark. That was
the 4th time since 2005 that IBA organized this broad-based,
multi-topic, fully reviewed International conference on ICT. With our
theme for ICICT 2013 of using technology to create a better world, we
are confident that ICICT 2013 will be an even bigger success. As such we
encourage you to submit your original and quality papers to the
conference whose proceedings will form part of the IEEE database and
hope to welcome you to the IBA this December.
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