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.

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.

Two ICS research papers bag the Best Scientific Paper awards in two separate Themes in the recently concluded 7th International Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences (ISSAAS) Philippine National Convention and Annual Meeting held at SEARCA, College, Laguna on 25-26 October 2007. The convention's theme was Impacts of Climate Change and Biofuels on Agriculture.

Announcing the offering of Introduction to VoIP (CMSC 191: Special Topic) for the 1st Semester 2007-2008.

Description

Voice over IP (VoIP), which integrates voice in the data network, promises a lot of advantages: lower operational costs, greater flexibility, and a variety of enhanced applications in the network. This course will provide a thorough introduction to this technology to help students understand how it works and give them hands-on laboratory sessions, which can give them an edge after they graduate. The students will be introduced to the basics of telephony, VoIP protocols (H.323, SIP, MGCP, etc.), Quality of Service (QoS), security issues of VoIP and many more. Students could also expect to find interesting problems as topics for their Special Problem.

The following are undergraduate seminars conducted during the First Semester of Academic year 2006-2007. The students were under CMSC 199 sections C2 and D2.

Upcoming seminars are announced in the ICS Seminars page and are calendared in the Upcoming Events page.

Past Seminars

September 15, 2006 Seminars

Please come to the Second UPLB MBB Symposium to be held this Friday August 4, 2006 at the SEARCA Auditorium from 8:15 AM to 2:00 PM. Our keynote lecture will be given by Dr. John Bennett at 8:30 AM on "Dissection of Drought Responsiveness in the Rice Plant by Microscopy and Molecular Biology." The symposium will feature the researches of our MBB alumni and students.

Please come and see what the MBB student researches are!

Call for Participation/Papers

16-20 October 2006
Adventists University of the Philippines
Silang, Cavite

About the Symposium

SMACS 2006 is the third meeting on the mathematical aspects of computer science that will be held in the Philippines organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines. The first was in 1997 (UPCB), the second was in 2004 (UP-Baguio).

The symposium is divided into two parts: a workshop and a seminar.

The workshop will run for three days and will consist of lectures on fundamental areas of computer science which are mathematical in character. The lectures will be synoptic and tutorial in nature and will cover topics from courses that are sometimes offered as upper division undergraduate courses. This year's tentative topics are: Automata and Formal Language Theory, Algorithms and Complexity, Graph Theory and Combinatorics, and Problem Solving.