For the last 5 days, I was at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, taking part in the 3rd International Symposium on Information Technology (ITSim’08) jointly organised by several top IPTA and IPTS in Malaysia, and co-sponsored by IEEE. I was there to present my paper on customer oriented design support system (an on-going project funded by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations), together with two other friends who are presenting their papers as well. I was proud to know that out of 650 papers that was submitted, only 280 papers was accepted. I was even happier to note that our papers (the only 3 from Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development) was accepted with high acceptance score from the reviewers.

As for the symposium, it was a very fruitful experience and we managed to actually meet with some top researchers and IT experts from all around the world. Personally, i’m happy to build up my networking by getting to know some new friends, some with vast experience that actually do not mind sharing their views and knowledge. I must say that the organiser (hosted by UKM) has done a splendid job organising the symposium. Apart from the symposium, all participants were given a free 1-year membership of Malaysian Information Technology Society (MITS), the first professional IT society in Malaysia launched at the symposium.

Oh well, that’s the mini report of the event. Will provide further updates once i’m back in Kuching.

P/s: updating from Cititel, KL.