“Modern technology is considered as backbone for socio- economic development of any country. Government is taking measures to promote technical and high education through many effective projects” It was expressed by Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfaraz while speaking to the participants at inaugural ceremony of IEEE 12^th International Conference on Open Source System and Technologies ICOSST’18 arranged by Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore on 19th December, 2018. Later, he visited the exhibition of researchers of Al-Khawarizmi regarding inventions in the field of science and technology.  Continue reading →

WEBSITE URL: icosst.kics.edu.pk

CONFERENCE DATE: Dec 19-21, 2018

CONFERENCE VENUE: Main Auditorium, UET Lahore

CONTACT NUMBER: +92-42-99029450

MAILING ADDRESS: icosst.secretariat@old.kics.edu.pk

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Business and Technology Incubation Center (BTIC), KICS-UET, Lahore in collaboration with National Incubation Center (NIC) LUMS organized a seminar on ‘How to Launch and Grow Startups’ taken place in Seminar Hall at Transportation Engineering Department in UET Lahore on 14^th December. It was designed for entrepreneurs, researchers and final year students to give them overview of how to start and grow their own startups. Continue reading →

A certificate distribution ceremony organized by Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS) UET Lahore was held in UET Lahore on 3^rd December 2018 to award the certificates to the passing out trainees of PSDF (Punjab Skills Development Fund) courses. 173 students were conferred with the certificates. These trainings were imparted in seven pass out classes including Solar Wind & UPS Assemble Training, Website Design and Development, Mobile Application, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Telecommunication Technologies (Huawei) and Networking Technologies (Huawei). Continue reading →

CERAD UET has signed an MOU with FSK (Pvt.) Ltd and AFCO Steal Pvt. Ltd for mutual collaboration for energy efficiency and conservation strategy development. The agreement signing ceremony took place at AFCO’s office in Sheikhupura on 1^st December, 2018. At the ceremony, Vice Chancellor UET Prof. Fazal Ahmed Khalid, Director CERAD UET Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood, CEO FSK Rao Khalid and CEO AFCO Mian M Azhar were present who signed the MOU and put it into effect.

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KICS UET Lahore organized a talk on ‘Automation: Academics to Industry Architecture’ on 23^rd November 2018 at Seminar Hall where students, officials and researchers were seen in good majority. The invited speaker at the occasion was Mr. Usman Alvi, who has a BSc degree in Mechanics and Control Engineering from UET Lahore. Presently he is working as a lead engineer with Yokogawa, which is one of world’s leading industrial automation groups. Continue reading →

Al-Khawarazmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS) UET Lahore in collaboration with Cambridge University, UK organized a road mapping workshop to strengthen industry and academia linkages. The conference took place at the conference room at Vice Chancellor’s Office on 15^th and 16^th November. Professors from Cambridge University along with many professors from UET and Pakistani universities attended it. Industrialists, researchers and people from other walks of life too participated in the conference. The opening ceremony happened on 15^th November.

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An invited talk was organized by KICS UET Lahore on the topic of ‘Statistics for Data Science in AI, ML and DL’ on 16^th November 2018 at Seminar Hall of the institute. Dr. Syed Ejaz Ahmed was the invited speaker, who is the professor of Statistics and Dean of the Faculty of Math and Science at Brock University, Canada. Previously, he was a professor and the head of the mathematics and statistics department at the University of Windsor, Canada and University of Regina, Canada as well as assistant professor at the University of the Western Ontario, Canada. He holds adjunct professorship positions at many Canadian and International universities. He has supervised numerous PhD and organized several international workshops and conferences around the globe. His repertoire also includes the fellowship of the American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society in addition to many other distinctions. Besides, he is the editor and associate editor of many scientific journals. Dr. Syed has published more than 175 articles in influential journals and reviewed more than 100 books. Continue reading →

The awareness session for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) program was held in UET’s Transportation Hall on 25^th October which was attended by both faculties and the students. This project was initiated 5 years back by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in a joint collaboration with Microsoft Corporation to provide free of cost certifications to students. Senator Rukhsana Zuberi was the chief guest at the occasion, who is also the chairperson of Tec Education Foundation. In her address, she talked about the importance of this project and its certification. Continue reading →