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ANNUAL
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FOR 2008

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ANNUAL REPORT for 2008

1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Despite the fact that the elected Executive Committee has only about 9 months to plan, organize and carry
out activities for the year, the IEEE Computer Society-Malaysia Section (IEEE-CS Malaysia) has had another
busy year organizing numerous activities for the benefit of members, professionals and students. A total of
32 activities were organized for the year 2008 and in fact, this is the highest number of activities organized
by IEEE-CS Mlalaysia so far.

This year's activities were mainly conferences where IEEE-CS Malaysia either a co-sponsor or a technical
co-sponsor of these conferences. The year also saw the IEEE-CS Malaysia successfully organized two (2)
technical lectures by international subject matter experts which were made possible via the Distinguish
Visitor Program (DVP). The last activity of the year saw IEEE-CS Malaysia collaborated with Freescale
Semiconductor Malaysia (Freescale Malaysia) to organize the Smart Car Competition 2008. The competition
which was held for the first time in Malaysia, saw 28 teams from 11 local universities taking part in the
competition which was made possible through the sponsorship and guidance of Freescale Malaysia.

Several conferences organized in 2008 will contribute to income which shall be utilized for organizing next
year's activities. All in all, 7 conferences were organized, 8 educational / technical trainings were conducted
and 3 professional programs were attended. As for the Smart Car Competition 2008, it has been categorized
as a special educational program. The chapter will continue to become co-sponsor for several conferences in
2009 and shall continue in providing opportunity for professional education and training to members.

2.0 CHAPTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Committee members elected at the chapter AGM held on 1st March 2008 :

Chair : Mohamed Rawidean b. Mohd Kassim

Vice Chair : Zainal b. Abu Kassim
Secretary : Mohd Redzuan Affandi b. Abdul Rahim
Treasurer : Ibrahim b. Mat
Committee Members : Assoc. Prof. Dr Suhaidi b. Hassan
Assoc. Prof. Dr Mohamed Othman
Annie Irlapati
Muhammad Faidzal b. Zainal
Auditors : Christopher Chew
Dr L. Chockalingam

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Mr. Mohamed Mr. Zainal Mr. Mohd Redzuan Mr. Ibrahim Mat Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Rawidean Mohd Abu Kassim Affandi Abdul Rahim Suhaidi Hassan
Kassim

Ms. Annie Irlapati Mr. Muhammad Assoc. Prof. Dr

Mr. Christopher Chew Dr L. Chockalingam
Faidzal Zainal Mohamed Othman
IEEE Computer Society – Malaysia Section: Executive Committee Members

3.0 ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

3.1 ADMINISTRATIVE MEETING

A total of 4 administrative meetings were held throughout the year to plan and coordinate
programs and activities. The following table provides detailed record of the meetings:

No. Name Post Meeting Dates Total

29/3 14/6 9/8 8/11
1. Mohamed Rawidean b. Chair 1 1 1 1 4
Mohd Kassim
2. Zainal b. Abu Kassim Vice Chair 1 1 1 1 4

3. Mohd Redzuan Affandi Secretary 1 1 1 1 4

b. Abdul Rahim
4. Ibrahim b. Mat Treasurer 1 1 - 1 3

5. Assoc. Prof. Dr Suhaidi Comm. 1 1 - 1 3

b. Hassan Member
6. Assoc. Prof. Dr Comm. 1 - - 1 2
Mohamed Othman Member
7. Annie Irlapati Comm. 1 - 1 - 2
Member
8. Muhammad Faidzal b. Comm. 1 1 1 1 4
Zainal Member
Attendance 8 6 5 7

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3.2 EDUCATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

The chapter have become co-sponsor or technical sponsor of the following conferences :
No. Date Conference Title Chapter's Role Total
(MM/DD/YYYY) Participants
1 07/12/2008 - 2nd IEEE Conference on Innovative Co-sponsor 95
07/13/2008 Technologies in Intelligent Systems &
Industrial Applications (CITISIA'08)
2 08/11/2008 - Second Asia Pacific Trusted Infrastructure Technical Sponsor 20
08/15/2008 (APTISS '08) Summer School
3 08/26/2008 - International Symposium on Information Co-sponsor 460
08/29/2008 Technology (ITSIM) 2008
4 10/21/2008 - The International Conference on Technical Sponsor 100
10/22/2008 Distributed Frameworks & Applications
2008 (DFmA 2008)
5 11/21/2008 - International Conference on Network Technical Sponsor 90
11/22/2008 Applications, Protocols and Services 2008
(NetApps2008)
6 12/1/2008 - International Conference on Electronic Technical Sponsor 100
12/3/2008 Design (ICED 2008)
7 12/16/2008 - 4th. Malaysian Software Engineering Technical Sponsor 90
12/17/2008 Conference

The Smart Car Competition, which is considered as a 'Special Educational Program', was initiated in the
second quarter of the year and a total of 8 project meetings were held throughout the period. Summary of
activities under the Smart Car Competition is as per the following table:
No. Date Activity Title Venue Total
(MM/DD/YYYY) Attendance
1 08/02/2008 Smart Car Competition Workshop Freescale Malaysia, 75
Petaling Jaya
2 12/12/2008 - Smart Car Competition 2008 Multipurpose Hall 200
12/13/2008 SIRIM, Shah Alam

The following are list of technical and educational talks organized by the chapter :
No. Date Title Speaker Attendance
(MM/DD/YYYY)
1 07/14/2008 Microsoft Visual Basic Advanced Mr Ang Moon Thiak 150
Programming
2 07/28/2008 Microsoft Visual Basic Advanced Mr Ang Moon Thiak 150
Programming
3 08/26/2008 DVP Talk : Data Analytic Integration & Dr Mukesh 30
Business Intelligence Mohania
4 08/27/2008 DVP Talk : Ubiquitous information Dr Thanos Demiris 30
access in integrated healthcare
5 10/13/2008 Microsoft Visual Basic Advanced Mr Ang Moon Thiak 150
Programming
6 10/20/2008 Microsoft Visual Basic Advanced Mr Ang Moon Thiak 150
Programming
7 11/21/2008 Network Simulation Using NS2 Dr Osman Ghazali 90
8 11/22/2008 Network Simulation Using OMNET++ Mr. Amran Ahmad 90

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This year also saw the chapter participating in more professional programs as an initiative to make visible the
role of the local chapter in giving inputs to ICT development programs as well as to directly / indirectly
promote the IEEE-CS membership. The following summarizes some of the professional programs where
Executive Committee members presented the chapter:
No. Date Name of Program Organizer
(MM/DD/YYYY)
1 04/22/2008 IEEE & IEEE Computer Society Professional UNITEN
Membership Drive for TNB Employees
2 05/19/2008 - Global Forum on Access and Connectivity and United Nations Global
05/20/2008 Innovative Funding Mechanisms Alliance for ICT and
Development (UN GAID)
3 06/30/2008 Workshop on Strategic Thrust 4 (Promote Ministry of Science,
Creativity And Innovativeness Via R&D To Harness Technology and Innovation
Competitiveness) & Strategic Thrust 7 (Optimize (MOSTI)
Resources By Encouraging Smart Partnerships
With Relevant Organizations)

During the IEEE Annual Dinner 2008, the chapter was awarded the High Performance Chapter
Award and in addition to that, our Chairman was awarded the IEEE Volunteer of Year 2007 Award.

4.0 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2008

The following are highlights on some of the events that have been co-organized and attended for the year.

CITISIA 2008
The 2nd IEEE Conference on Innovative Technologies in Intelligent Systems and Industrial
Applications (CITISIA'08) was the first
conference to take place in the year. This
year's conference which was organized
by the IEEE MMU Student Branch
managed to attract participations not only
from local universities but also from
Singapore. A total of 24 conference
papers were accepted from 29 papers
that was submitted. The papers accepted
were mainly from USM, UiTM, Monash
University, UTM, MMU, UPM, IIUM and
NTU (Singapore).
CITISIA'08 Group Photo

The CITISIA 2009 will be organized by the IEEE Student Branch of Monash University, Sunway Campus
from 25th until 26th July 2009 and the IEEE-CS Malaysia shall continue to be a co-sponsor of the conference.

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UN GAID FORUM

The IEEE-CS Malaysia participated in the “Global Forum on

Access and Connectivity and Innovative Funding
Mechanisms” which was organized by the United Nations Global
Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID). The event which
was held from 19th to 20th May 2008 was a side event to the World
Congress of Information Technology (WCIT) 2008. The two-days
event was attended by Vice-Chair and Secretary of the chapter.

The objectives of the event was to have a practical, results-

oriented format, including interactive, multi-stakeholder panel
discussions, partnership announcements, as well as opportunities
for participants to showcase their ICT development projects to
potential partners and donors. The Forum also was intended to
provide a networking platform for leaders from the public, private and financial sectors to meet and forge new
partnerships for the future.

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

The chapter has planned for 2 membership drive program to be held for the year. To support the plan, the
chapter has also printed out 50 IEEE-CS Malaysia t-shirts to add to existing promotional materials. The IEEE
HQ also sent over the necessary promotional materials; brochure, leaflets and posters to be used for the
membership-drive purposes.

The first membership drive program of the year was held at UNITEN on the 22 nd April 2008 and the
objectives were to encourage professionals (TNB employees and UNITEN lecturers) to become members of
IEEE & IEEE Computer Society. The chapter t-shirts were put on display and were given away to those who
signed up as member of the chapter.

Another membership drive program was held during the ITSIM 2008 conference where the membership
promotional materials were enclosed together with other conference materials that were provided to the
participants.

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DVP TALKS
Two international subject matter experts were brought over to the country in August 2008 under the
Distinguish Visitor Program (DVP) to share their experience and knowledge in their area of specialization. Dr
Mukesh Mahonia, a Senior Manager with IBM India spoke on “Data Analytic Integration & Business
Intelligence”. The talk was held at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra
Malaysia (UPM) Serdang.

The second DVP speaker, Dr Thanos Demiris who works with µ2gen, a company based in Technology Park,
Greece, is an expert in Digital Media and Internet Technologies. He shared his knowledge on “Ubiquitous
Information Access in Integrated Healthcare” and the talk was held at MIMOS Berhad, Technology Park
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

ITSIM 2008
The International Symposium on Information Technology (ITSIM) 2008 conference
which was co-sponsored by the chapter is one of the major highlight of the year. The event
which was held from 26th until 29th August 2008 at KL Convention Center saw
participations not only from all major universities locally but also managed to bring in
participants from about 30 countries.

The ITSIM 2008 Conference proceedings have also been submitted for publication with
IEEE Xplore which will saw a knowledge contribution of more than 300 papers to be made
available online for the research community to benefits.

SMART CAR COMPETITION 2008

The final and major highlights of the the year was
the Smart Car Competition 2008 which was
targeted at engineering students of local
universities. The educational-based competition
aims to expose students to programming on an
actual 32 bit micro controller and to enable them
to enhance their technical skills by challenging
them to produce an intelligent racing car. The
programs also intend to indirectly motivates them to enjoy engineering subjects and provide to them the
avenue and opportunities to exchange knowledge and learn from peers from the other universities. A total of
28 teams from 11 universities participated in the competition which was held at the Multipurpose Hall SIRIM
Berhad, Shah Alam from 12th until 13th December 2008.

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Smart Car development tools and demo track Handing over Smart Car Development Kit
used at the workshop to participating teams

Teams from the initial 24 teams that attended the Smart Car Competition Workshop

Competition Day : Smart Car Champion for 2008 : Team UMS 'B'

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