Annual Report 2000

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5 Academic Events

5.1 Participation on Conference Programme Committees

Zhou Chaochen

• International Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (ICS2000), Beijing, August 21-24, 2000.
• The Asia Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ASIAN 2000), Penang, Malaysia, December 2000.

• Tomasz Janowski

• Conference on Information Technology and Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 6-7 January 2000.
• 7th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Singapore, 5-8 December 2000. - 6th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'2000), Tokyo, Sept. 11-15, 2000.
• 2nd IFIP/MASSYVE Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises, Florianopolis, Brazil, 4-6 Dec 2000.

• Chris George

 
• ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications Beirut, Lebanon, June 26-29, 2001.
• Integrated Formal Methods 2000, Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany, November 1-3, 2000.
• International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2000, Guiyang, China, August 28-30, 2000.

• Richard Moore

 
• Formal Methods Europe Symposium, Berlin, Germany, 12-16 March 2001.
• International Symposium on Software and Systems (I3S'2000), Constantine, Algeria, 24-26 February 2001.

• Dang Van Hung

 
• Information Technology and Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 6-7 January 2000.
• High Performance Scientific Computing, March 27-31, 2000, Hanoi, Vietnam.

• He Jifeng

 
• The 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2000), Las Vegas, USA, June, 2000.
• The Asia Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ASIAN 2000), Penang, Malaysia, December 2000.
• The 7th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000), Singapore, December 2000.
• The Sixth International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and FaultTolerant Systems, Pune, India, 20-22 September 2000.
• The First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software, Hong Kong, China, 30-31 October 2000.
• The IEEE International Conference on Electronic Circuits and Systems, Kaslik, Lebanon, 17-20 December 2000.

5.2 Event Sponsorship

1. In 22-23 August 2000, UNU/IIST organised the International Symposium on Software Industry in Developing Countries in Beijing.

This Symposium was a satellite event of the International Federation for Information Processing, World Computer Congress of 2000 (IFIP WCC'2000).
A brief description of this event can be found in the Introduction. Please visit the News and Announcements page for August 2000 on the UNU/IIST Web Site (http://www.iist.unu.edu) for the symposium Programme.
2. UNU/IIST sponsored the IFIP WG2.3 Workshop (September 4-5) and School/Seminar - State-of-the-Art on Program Design Using Logic, (September 6-13) in Tandil, Argentina. UNU/IIST gave financial support to 6 participants from Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, and covered travel cost and local expenses of a School/Seminar lecturer, Prof. Eric Hehner, from Toronto. UNU/IIST also sent one staff (Dr. Dang Van Hung) to give lectures at the School/Seminar.
3. Asian Computing Conference (ASIAN 2000), Penang, Malaysia, December 2000. UNU/IIST has provided 3 conference participants with financial support.
4. Asian Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000), Singapore, December 2000. UNU/IIST has provided financial support for 2 conference participants.

5.3 Ex-Fellow Survey

We conducted a survey about UNU/IIST ex-Fellows, and received 36 responses. Among the responses,
 

1. 35 marked the UNU/IIST training as excellent or good;
2. 23 marked the UNU/IIST training impact on their career development as directly and significantly;
3. 16 marked the impact on their current job as directly and significantly;
4. For the UNU/IIST course impact, 19 marked as definitely strong;
5. About frequency of visiting UNU/IIST web site, 18 marked as monthly or more often;
6. Some suggested to improve UNU/IIST training activities by providing courses on more practical or new subjects.

From the survey we can conclude that UNU/IIST training activities have been satisfactory, but the technical scope of the training should be widened in future.

Annual Report 2000

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