Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) annual exhibition event (FICTeX) 2018

An important and now familiar event on the calendar of the Faculty of ICT at the University of Malta is the annual Faculty of ICT Exhibition (FICTeX) coupled with the Dean’s List Awards ceremony. This year the opening ceremony for FICTeX will be held today at 7pm.

During the exhibition, work developed by the Faculty’s undergraduate final year students and awards acknowledging academic achievement will be showcased. This year, the event will be officially opened by Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment. Throughout the academic year, the Faculty also frequently hosts and organises various events, seminars, talks and visits, as well as conferences both exclusively and in collaboration with other entities.

This year’s FICTeX will be showcasing around 80 projects, which relate to various aspects of ICT. These projects have different backgrounds and come from various fields of study – touching upon, but not limited to, such themes as genome modelling and data science, data visualisation, game technology, information analytics, software development models, assistive and adaptive technologies, image and video analysis and processing, formal contract analysis, programme execution verification, body monitoring, wearable devices, flow management and transport systems, security and surveillance solutions, testing, visualisation, health and wellbeing, speech processing, programming paradigms, entertainment, embedded systems and chip design, data transmission, system modelling, control systems, social media and tools, mobile technologies, video transmission, finan- cial tools, hardware interfacing, user experience, intelligent systems and augmented reality.

As is the spirit and intent of the Faculty, the exhibited projects are a mixture consisting of work that has a more readily discernible applicative nature and other work that has a more fundamental and conceptual nature. Whatever the focus, all projects exhibit a channel towards practical usefulness.

The ICT projects exhibition will be open to the public on Friday, 13 July between 5 and 8pm at the Faculty of ICT of the University of Malta. The Faculty will also be organising an informal LoungeAround event that sees interested students meet up and informally chat with Faculty academics and administrative staff. This event will take place on 17 July starting at 11am. More details can be obtained from the Faculty’s Facebook page www.facebook.com/uom.ict