HOW COMPUTING IS CHANGING LIVES
EXPERTS IN A SEMINAR AT UMT DISCUSS INNOVATIVE COMPUTING
ADDRESSING the International Conference on Innovative Computing held at University of Management and Technology, Rector Dr Hasan Sohaib Murad said that the field of computing is rapidly changing with every passing of day posing challenges for universities around the world.
He said technology was affecting our lives by creating new spaces for apps and cloud computing and grid computing. This was an era of computing and this was the time of people associated with computing technology. He said that degrees in Computing need to be connected globally paving way for practicality and professionalism, which is need of the hour.
Dr Hasan said that individuals attached with computing field ought to work on synergies between information technology developments and its applications in various fields of life. He said that no field was left unaffected by technology. “Technology is essential for contemporary lifestyle; it is changing the way we work and it is to make life easier and comfortable; more advancement and more innovations are required to improve the quality of life” he added.
Dr Murad emphasized the participants on working hard to cultivate a new culture of scientific discoveries and innovative solutions of social problems through Information Technology. The rector further said that connectivity was not only required for Innovative Computing Systems and Applications but it is highly needed in all domains of life in order to exchange bright ideas through scientific method.
Dr. Stefano Ceri, a professor from Italy shared his views on Genomic computing, which he said was a new science that focuses on understanding the functioning of the genome, as a premise to fundamental discoveries in biology and medicine. He said that Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) allowed the production of the entire human genome sequence at a cost of about $1000, many algorithms exist for the extraction of genome features, or “signals”, including peaks (enriched regions), mutations, or gene expression (intensity of transcription activity). The professor said that missing gap is a system supporting data integration and exploration, giving a “biological meaning” to all the available information; such a system can be used, e.g., for better understanding cancer or how environment influences cancer development.
Another scholar, Dr Rebecca Fox from USA’s George Mason University gave presentation on International and Inter-Disciplinary Professional Learning for Innovation for the Twenty-First Century. She said that universities today were more vital than ever and must respond to an increasingly urgent call to prepare world citizens for the upcoming decades of the 21st century. Global engagement calls for professionals who are not only capable of working and living in a rapidly changing and globalised world, but who must also possess critical reflective capacity to promote content knowledge application in relevant, innovative, and entrepreneurial ways. She said in order to accomplish this goal, knowledge must extend beyond discipline-specific classroom application to knowledge activation in authentic settings; the importance of partnerships and inter-disciplinary work cannot be under-estimated.
Dr Marley Lee a professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, at ChonBuk National University, Korea talked on the importance of an Intelligent Health Care Data Management System. She said that in a healthcare environment, healthcare providers usually get the patient’s health information in an idle state. The collected data was then managed and analyzed in the healthcare server, so that a care giver can study the patient’s physiological state. She said in order to get the patient’s health information while performing his daily tasks, we need a ubiquitous device. The goal of this thesis is to design an “Intelligent HealthCare Data Management System” for mobile environments that will handle the healthcare data of the patient and also converts it into a globally used standard for exchange of healthcare data and information. She further said that intelligent healthcare data management system (IHDMS) had an intelligent algorithm similar to genetic algorithm that can find an optimal solution within an acceptable time, and is faster and more dynamic than greedy algorithms in assigning tasks.
It is worth mentioning that the International Conference on Innovative Computing revolved around creative areas such as Algorithms Design, Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Network and Systems, www Applications, Software Engineering, Internet of Things, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ubiquitous Computing and many more.