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Centre Name:  

Centre for Computing and Intelligent Systems

Chairperson: 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tay Yong Haur

Description of Centre:

 

The Centre for Computing and Intelligent Systems (CCIS) is a research centre established to spearhead research in the field of ICT especially in intelligent computing, distributed computing, enterprise systems and multimedia systems. The centre holds the following missions:

  • To provide an efficient point of contact for management, cooperation and coordination between UTAR academic staff and external parties that seek collaboration and consultancy on software-related projects
  • To encourage multidisciplinary research and development activities
  • To promote research atmosphere among participants
  • To serve as a driving force for exchange of research skills, knowledge and expertise
  • To commercialize research outputs

 Research area:

 
  • Computer Vision and Image Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Embedded Systems
  • Distributed and Cloud Computing
  • Interactive Multimedia
  • Data Mining


 Activities in 2013

Summary of activities

List of all events organized from January till December 2013 (in chronological order).

No.

Date

Event

1

31/1/2013

CCIS Talk: Professional Software Development - What you don't learn in university

2

20/9/2013

CCIS Talk: Technological Advancements in Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for High Performance Computing

3

28/10/2013

CCIS Talk: Lulu's Journey to the West by Lu Chen Pin, OrigineIT

4

31/10/2013

CCIS Talk: Entrepreneurship - Why, How, What, When by Srikanth Ramachandran, MKN At-life

5

7/11/2013

CCIS Talk: Technopreneur - Think out of the box by Shaniur Nabi, C7 Solution

6

19/12/2013

CCIS Talk: Semantics-based Keyword Search over XML and Relational Databases by Prof Ling Tok Wang

7

20/12/2013

CCIS Talk: Semantics-based Keyword Search over XML and Relational Databases by Prof Ling Tok Wang

Highlights of activities

CCIS Talk: Professional Software Development - What you don't learn in university by Ilyas Sapiyan, Technical Director, InternetNow International
31/1/2013

CCIS Talk: Technological Advancements in Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for High Performance Computing
20/9/2013

UTAR’s Centre for Computing and Intelligent Systems (CCIS) hosted a talk by two industry experts on Graphics Processing Units (GPU) computing, Dr. Simon See from Nvidia and Dr. Ettikan K.K. from MIMOS, on the 20th of September 2013.  The two distinguished speakers visited UTAR to share their knowledge on application trends and the latest technology updates and directions on GPU Computing on Nvidia’s CUDA platform specifically and parallel processing in general.

Dr. Ettikan, who is a Principal Researcher at MIMOS and also the Director of the Accelerative Technology Lab for the ICT Division, MIMOS was the first speaker. He shared some of the problems that MIMOS has been working on in collaboration with Nvidia, Malaysian industry partners, and governmental organisations.

He explained about the problems of trying to process big data, and how MIMOS is using Nvidia’s GPUs in order to help accelerate solutions for problems that used to be in the domain of super computers. MIMOS is also working on a parallel computing library called MiAccLib that will help customers quickly accelerate their computing solutions.


Dr. Simon See, who is the Director and Chief Architect of NVIDIA Asia Pacific Professional Solution Group, was the second speaker of the talk. He highlighted the importance of parallel programming in general and for GPUs in particular. He also updated the audience on the direction of GPU computing evolution, and described some of the work done by institutes and universities overseas in enhancing and supplementing Nvidia’s CUDA platform for diverse applications ranging from financial computations to the oil and gas industry. GPU computing using Nvidia’s platform has experienced a boom worldwide in recent years due to the ability to perform super-computing at low cost, and having an easy to use CUDA parallel programming and computing platform with many supporting libraries and applications.

Overall, the attendees who were composed of lecturers and students from UTAR, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARUC) benefitted greatly from the talk and have been instilled with a better understanding of industry problems of processing big data, and approaches in solving them using GPU computing. We believe that this talk will help to stoke the fire to create a more active and vibrant research community on GPU Computing in UTAR and Malaysia.



CCIS Talk: Lulu's Journey to the West by Lu Chen Pin, OrigineIT
28/10/2013



CCIS Talk: Entrepreneurship - Why, How, What, When by Srikanth Ramachandran, MKN At-life
31/10/2013



CCIS Talk: Technopreneur - Think out of the box by Shaniur Nabi, C7 Solution
7/11/2013



CCIS Talk: Semantics-based Keyword Search over XML and Relational Databases by Prof Ling Tok Wang
19/12/2013    
                                                       

         

 CCIS Talk: Semantics-based Keyword Search over XML and Relational Databases by Prof Ling Tok Wang
20/12/2013

 

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