A team from the Qatar University latest findings of science in the field of fingerprint recently participated in the international conference to  analyze and identify documents ICDAR2011 held in China. This competition was previously organized by a team of researchers at the University of Qatar.

Qatar University team participated in the conference in a research paper on the same subject, the conference was attended by Dr. Abdelali Hsaineh and Dr. Somaya Ali Al-Ali from the University of Qatar.

At the same conference, researchers from the University has achieved two prizes in the international competition. First to address the writer and see the documents and musical notes automatically, and the second contest to identify signatures excelled at Latin.

The two programs (Computer Science & Computer Engineering) in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering have received the ABET Accreditation.

Winning the "Special International Prize" which given for the best three works of international submission. The project title is [Different Games To Test Your Observation: Noora AL-Shaabi, Nawal Khalid, Aws Al-Taie, Osama Halabi ] that has been submitted to the [Art & Technology Tohoku 2011 Competition].

Statistics about this year competition:
  Number of submissions:
  Interactive works: 28
  Non-Interactive works: 34
  Digital Technolog: 70

Domestic (Japan): 46
International: 24

Awards list:
http://www-cg.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/AT2011/award_list.html
Award list with photo:
http://www-cg.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/AT2011/award.html
Snap shot of the event:
http://www-cg.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/AT2011/photo/index.html
Competition website:
http://www-cg.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/AT2011/index-e.html
 

Dr. Sumaya Al-Maadeed (Assistant Professor) in the CSE department and her team WON the Music Scores: Writer Identification and Staff Removal competition (ICDAR / GREC 2011).

Read More: http://dag.cvc.uab.es/cvcmuscima/competition

Dr. Tarek Elfouly and Dr. Amr Mohamed from the CSE department won the 3rd place in the 3rd UREP competition. The project entitled “Intelligent Traffic Light System for Ambulance Use” by Noor Al-Nakhala, Heba Khayal and Sharmeen Ibrahim.

The department of computer science & engineering football team won the first college of engineering championship in football that took place on Tuesday May 3, 2011.

The purpose of the Course Project Award is to recognize the excellent project work of the students and to provide them a chance to enhance their presentation skill by demonstrating their good work to the public. The top three ranking projects will receive a symbolic award and certificate.

Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011

Time: 2:00-4:00 PM

Location: Reception Hall, Administration Building, Qatar University

Best poster award at  the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Applied Computing College of Information Technology, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE was awarded to our students Sara Qaffaf, Rouda Al-Kuwari, Ohood Al-Amoudi, Nada Aloraidi, Heba Dawoud and Muneera Al-Marri under the supervision of  Dr. Tarek Elfouly and Dr. Amr.Mohamed The project poster entitled "Assistive Technology for People with Hearing/Speaking Disabilities"

Under the supervision of Dr. Khaled Bashir Shaban (Assistant Professor), Fatima Al-Saffar and Al-Maha Al-Attiya from the CSE department won the third prize in the IT competition (Software Category) which took place in the college of  Information Technology -  Zayed University on 29/04/2011.

The competition is sponsored by Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Injazat Data Systems, Al Jaber Group and Municipality of Abu Dhabi City. Zayed University Competition in IT. (See Pictures)

Announcing the winners of the Computing Contest 2011 in an awards ceremony at Qatar University on saturday 28/04/2011. The contest, aimed at high school students across the country, was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the College of Engineering CENG). The competition started at 10:00 AM and ended at 4:00 PM with three winners from three different schools.

The ceremony was attended by QU President Prof Sheikha Al-Misnad, Dr. Sheikha Jaber Al Thani Vice-President, CENG Dean Dr Mazen Hasna, Head of CSE Department Dr Qutaibah Malluhi, faculty, high-school teachers, students , and parents. QU President handed out the awards and congratulated the winners. (Picture-1 , Picture-2)

ICT Research Day- Tuesday, 29/3/2011 starting at 9 a.m. in Room I111 Corridor 9- College of Engineering. More information in the attached PDF file.

This international contest on Arabic Writer Identification AWI’2011 is organized by the Document Image Analysis team of Qatar University in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011) that will be held in Beijing, China.

Writer identification is a very active research field which has many applications in different domains (biometric, forensic, etc.). During ICDAR’2009 conference, around eight papers dealt with writer identification and in the ICFHR’2010, not less than six papers addressed also this topic.

The aim of this competition is to allow researchers and practitioners working on writer identification or related fields to compare the performances of their systems on a new collected set of data that will be freely available for all contestants. The winner of this contest will be honored at a special session in ICDAR’2011.

Detailed information about the contest can be found at: http://wic2011.qu.edu.qa/
Registration and submissions to this contest must be done through Kaggle website.
We will also be happy to answer your questions on the forum of the competition.

The department of computer science & engineering organized a workshop on assembling and programming the robot . A large number of students attended the workshop from different high schools in Qatar. The workshop was held in Qatar university on Saturday from 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM. The workshop was delivered by Dr. Uvais and Dr. Ryan.

See workshop pictures( Pic-1 , Pic-2 , Pic-3 , Pic-4 )

Website: http://cse.qu.edu.qa/computingcontest

The department of Computer Science & Engineering is organizing its fourth annual computing contest across high schools in Qatar. The contest will involve designing, building, and programming a LEGO Robot to navigate  a course and accomplish tasks. Information about the contest lunching is shown below:

Event:                   Launching the 2011 QU Computing Contest
Date:                    Thursday, March 3, 2011
Time:                    11:00 AM
Location:              Reception Hall, Administration Building

Website: http://cse.qu.edu.qa/computingcontest

The CSE department had its 2010-2011 retreat in Ramada Hotel on the 10th of February 2011.The retreat was attended by all department members including faculty members, lecturers, TAs and non-academic staff members.

The retreat was very successful. The following areas were covered:
1. Reflect on mistakes and successes
2. Share and get feedback on the CSE strategic plan
3. Formulate innovative projects to support the CSEstrategic plan
4. Plan and develop common understanding about our senior project courses and their enhancement. (Pic1,Pic2,Pic3)

The HOD Prof. Qutaibah had a department meeting to welcome the new faculty member at the CSE department. The new faculty member is Dr. Osama Halabi (Assistant Professor),

Dr. Osama Halabi received a BSc, in electronic engineering from Damascus University, MSc in computer science from Shanghai University, and PhD in Information Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 1992, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He was a software engineer at the National Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), Damascus, Syria, from 1992 to 1995, an assistant professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology as a Fujitsu Endowed Chair (Fujitsu Co.,) from 2001 to 2003, a researcher in Virtual Systems Laboratory at Gifu University from 2003 to 2006, an assistant professor at Iwate University, Japan, from 2006 to 2010.

QU announced the winners of its Website Contest 2010 (QU_WSC’10) in an awards ceremony at Ibn Khaldoon Hall last Thursday. The contest, aimed at high school students across the country, was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the College of Engineering CENG).

Abdalla Bin Essa Alfadalah and Hena Alpona from the International Middle East School were the first prize winners for their project "Be Proud, you are in Qatar!". The project was supervised by their teacher Mashid Karimi. The prize is QR 10,000 in addition to a scholarship to study in the Bachelor of Science program at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Second prize winners were Saroj Akmal and Fahad Ali Sayed from Pakistan Education Center. Their project was entitled "A Rising Nation", and was supervised by their teacher Guhar Hameed. The prize is QR 6,000.

Third prize winner was Abdulrahman Mohamad from Abudllah Bin Ali Al-Misnad High School for his project "Doha Today". The project was supervised by his teacher Tamer Mohammed. The prize is QR 4,000.

The ceremony was attended by QU President Prof Sheikha Al-Misnad, Dr. Sheikha Jaber Al Thani Vice-President and Chief Academic Officer, Vice-President for Research Dr Hassan Al Derham, CENG Dean Dr Mazen Hasna, Head of CSE Department Dr Qutaibah Malluhi, heads of departments, faculty, high-school teachers, students , and parents. QU President handed out the awards and congratulated the winners.

The department students Athmane Boularas , Ramzi Bendeddouche , Mohamed Al-Damarawy, supervised by Dr. Amr Mohamed have won an outstanding competition for best paper award in the “Second annual undergrad research conference on applied computing”, which has been organized at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.

Paper title:
WIPMON: Wireless Sensor System for Industrial Process Monitoring by Amr Mohamed, Athmane Boularas , Ramzi Bendeddouche , Mohamed Al-Damarawy (Qatar University, Qatar)
Announcement on the conference website
http://www.zu.ac.ae/urc/program.html

Establishing an ACM student chapter at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering andACM Workshok on Computing Eduacation.

QU hosted a high-level workshop last Monday conducted by officials from the US-based Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on “Research Overtones in Computing Education”. It was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the College of Engineering (CENG).

The workshop was sponsored by QU in conjunction with ACM and Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). It was part of a 3-day program of activities which included the ACM Board Meeting in which was discussed the future possibility of a computer education summit, and inauguration of the QU ACM student chapter.

The workshop provided a forum for QU’s ICT professionals and students to interact with ACM and other international professionals in the field of computing research and education and explore opportunities for mutual collaboration and cooperation.

Three QU students won first prize in the 2nd Undergraduate Research Experience (UREP) competition under Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), it was announced this week.
College of Engineering (CENG) students Asma Al-Emadi, Nassma Mohandes, Mona Al-Ansari and Aisha Al-Abdulla won for best project and best presentation for the development of a prototype of a traffic surveillance system. The students were supervised by Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department Prof Qutaibah Malluhi.
 
The winning project entitled “DTS: A System For Real-Time Doha Traffic Surveillance Using Zigbee” was one of six to be selected as finalists in the competition.
The projects were evaluated by independent external reviewers based on quality of work (25%), relevance of the data to the conclusion (25%), clarity of presentation (25%), and quality of response to question and answer (25%).
 
According to the project abstract, the system employs an in-vehicle device for collecting real-time traffic data and which uses GPS technology to record information about the position and the speed of a moving vehicle. The device uses the emerging ZigBee standard as a low-cost low-power wireless ad-hoc network which enables the device to be a member of a ZigBee network and allow the data to be transmitted to one of the roadside base stations, which relay the data to a central server.
 
The gathered data from all vehicles are fused and maintained on the central server. Real-time information on the server is presented to end-users through a web interface. In addition, the server maintains historical Doha traffic information database that can be used for traffic analysis and prediction.

Invitation to an open meeting with the head of the Department Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi and the department members, on Monday29.03.2010, at 2:00 pm, Room I111, Corridor 9.

Invitation to an open meeting with the head of the Department Prof. Qutaibah Malluhi and the department members, on Thursday 1.04.2010, at 2:00 pm, in the College of Engineering Building, Room C07175.