Language, VR, machine learning at 3rd ICTER conference in SL

Sri Lanka's third annual ICTer conference, to be held at Colombo's BMICH in midDecember, will encompass information and communication (ICT) technology topics such as language processing, image processing and virtual reality, e-learning, knowledge-based systems, machine learning and social applications, amongst others, according to organisers.

Further, as per a media statement issued by organising body University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), the conference will "consist of 3 Keynote Speeches, 5 Invited Talks, 18 Full Papers, 11 Short Papers and 6 Posters. Apart from the main conference on 13th and 14th December 2012, there will be 3 Workshops and 2 Tutorials and a student research symposium with 17 paper presentations as Pre and Post Conference activities on 12th and 15th December 2012".

Additionally noted, the International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) 2012 is the successor to the International Information Technology Conference (IITC), which has been held in Sri Lanka since 1998.

At the same time, organisers also indicated that keynote speakers at the event will include: Prof. R.K. Shyamsunder, Senior Professor and JC Bose National Fellow, Faculty of Technology & Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, speaking on "Multicore and Extreme Scale Computing: Programming and Software Challenges"; ICT and mathematics double doctorate holder Prof. Love Ekenberg, Head of Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden, presenting on "Decision Analysis in Societal Planning"; and cybercrime and human computer interaction expert Dr. George Weir, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom, speaking on "Online strategies For Neutralising Sexually Explicit Language".

More details about the conference programme are available at http://www.icter.org/conference/programme.( JH)