KARACHI: The Institute of Business Administration (IBA) is organising the 7th International Conference, with the theme ICT in everyday life, on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT) from December 30, 2017, at its city campus.
The conference, which started in 2005 and held once every two years by the faculty of computer science, has been a mode of promoting research with participation from both academia and industry.
The aim is to provide a quality platform for acquiring, sharing and disseminating results of completed and ongoing indigenous research activities in collaboration with the international community of researchers.
It will be attended by a large number of researchers, practitioners and industry experts from across Pakistan and around the world. This year, the conference welcomed research papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, software and information systems, information retrieval, speech, image and vision systems, networks and computer security, and ICT and society.
The technical committee, comprising of a team of researchers from Pakistan and abroad, accepted 35 quality research papers after reviewing over a 100 national and international research papers.
Besides paper presentations, the conference is going to host workshops in leading technological areas, including a cutting-edge workshop by a scientist from Google. The IBA will also sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Regina, Canada. The MoU will help promote joint educational and research activities and will facilitate an exchange of academic material, faculty and students between the two universities.
