MNCC Evening Talk - 28 August 2007

The Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) is organizing an evening talk on "Digital Image Processing: Open Source vs. Proprietary" as part of the series of Evening Talks for the year 2007. Details of the evening talk are as follows:

Speaker: Dr. Woo Chaw Seng
                 Lecturer, Department of Artificial Intelligence
                 Universiti Malaya

Event Chair: Hj. Mohd Afandi Ismail, Council Member, MNCC

Venue:    The Auditorium
                Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
                University of Malaya
                Kuala Lumpur.
                (Map URL : UM Location map Campus map)
Date:        28 August 2007

Time:        7.00 pm (Tea will be served before the event)

Admission:     Free for MNCC, on a first come first served basis.
                        (Please quote your membership number during registration)

                      Others: RM 20.00 per person
                        Student: RM 10.00 per person

Synopsis

Recent changes in the user community have seen a shift from proprietary software to open source software. This is especially true for some Asian government departments. When a user decides to make that shift, what are the factors to consider besides cost saving? Is technical support an important factor? What about the functionalities of the software? This talk will focus on the comparisons between open source tools and proprietary tools using a case scenario of choosing suitable software tools for digital image processing. The speaker will also share with the audience his research experiences in using digital image processing tools.

Biodata of Speaker

Digital image processing has been one of the major research interests of Dr Woo for the past ten years. Among the many related aspects of image processing that he studied include biomedical imaging, data visualization, and image security. He has used proprietary tools such as Matlab and Photoshop in addition to open source tools in his research.

Registration:
Participants who are interested to attend should register via admin@mncc.com.my or call Syam or Nonie at 03-71183040. Please register early as only limited seats available (e-mail:admin@mncc.com.my).