| Azlan Othman |
THERE is a growing emphasis on multi-disciplinary education and research, especially involving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), in today’s global education landscape.
This was said by Dr Haji Junaidi bin Haji Abdul Rahman, the Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education, at the second Computational Intelligence in Information Systems (CIIS) conference held at Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB).
The shift from traditional discipline-specific to multi-disciplinary domains is due to the need for developing a competitive edge in innovation through STEM education and research for the 21st Century. Since Computational Intelligence techniques are used with the inspirations from nature, it can be used as one of the important tools for multi-disciplinary education and research, he noted.
“We are fortunate in this period of time to witness the fastest and most fascinating changes taking place in the technology of Computational Intelligence. The goals of Computational Intelligence are emphasised in understanding complex systems and designing proactive adaptive systems in uncertain, unknown and dynamic environments. Such goals have to represent great challenges and are expected to produce amazing results,” he added.
Also present at the event was Professor Dr Hajah Zohrah binti Haji Sulaiman, Vice-Chancellor of UTB and Honorary Chair and Advisor of the conference.
The three-day conference with the theme, ‘Improving Quality of Life through Connectivity’, is organised by the School of Computing and Informatics, UTB from November 18 – 20.
Dr Haji Junaidi bin Haji Abdul Rahman, the Permanent Secretary (Higher Education) at the Ministry of Education delivering his speech. – AZLAN OTHMAN
Dr Au Thien Wan, Dean of School of Computing and Informatics, in his capacity as Chairman of the conference, said, “It is the platform for us to understand better these technologies and their applications so that we can use them to address the complex issues faced by the modern societies today. We hope that these technologies will not only help us build a better future but also improve the quality of our lives through global connectivity.”
A keynote paper titled ‘Artificial Intelligent (AI) Systems with Human Internal State Understanding: I Know Who You Are and What You Think’ was presented by Professor Dr Soo Young Lee from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, which introduced the participants to Deep Learning, the currently successful speech and image recognition based on computational models of human auditory and visual pathways.
They were 62 submissions from 21 countries and after a rigorous review process, 26 papers were accepted at the conference and those will be published by Springer in the ‘Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing’ book series.
The papers are categorised into four main tracks: Intelligent Systems and their Applications; Internetworking, Security and Internet of Things; Data Mining and its Applications; and Management Information Systems and Education Technology.
The CIIS conference also featured two invited academic speakers – Professor Laszlo T Koczy from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary who presented a paper titled ‘Fuzzy Signatures – Theory and Application’, while Professor Ali Selamat from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia presented on ‘Fuzzy Granular Computing Classifier with Particle Swarm Optimisation Learning Algorithms’.
Speakers from BAG Networks, CISCO and Huawei represented the industrial sector with their papers.
The CIIS conference provides UTB an excellent opportunity to attract expertise and professionals from academia and industries from all over the world to come to the Sultanate for sharing, networking and collaboration.
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