The Award Ceremony for the MNCC Excellence ICT Awards 2002/2003 was held on 2 September 2003 at the Malaysian International Exhibition and Convention Center (MIECC), the Mines Resort, Kuala Lumpur in conjunction with the opening ceremony of the Malaysian ICT Week 2003. The winners below received their prizes from the Hon. Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia.
Dr. Mohd. Adzir Bin Mahdi is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Computer Systems Engineering and Communication, Faculty
of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia. In the short span of his
academic career he has won numerous local and international awards in
the field of photo-electronics and telecommunication technology and
more than 30 of his scientific papers have been accepted and published
in reputable international technical journals. Besides teaching
undergraduates, he also supervises masters and doctorate students. He
also has led more than 10 R&D projects focusing on electro-optic
technology, and until now he has secured 4 Malaysian and 1 USA patents
for products he and his team have created.
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Mr. Yong Yik Seng graduated with a First Class Honours degree in
Electrical & Electronics Engineering majoring in Computer Systems
from the Multimedia University in 2002. He consistently achieved
excellent academic performance at the University and participated
actively in extra- curricular activities. Mr. Yong was a member of the
University's Robotics Development Team which won prizes in local and
international Robotics competitions. Presently, he is pursuing his
Masters degree programme at the Multimedia University.
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The winning software is ADOdb
and the award is presented to Mr. John Lim, the principal developer of
the software. ADOdb is a database abstraction library for the Open
Source PHP programming language. It allows a software developer to
write their database code once, then run the same code on multiple
database and multiple operating system platforms. It is mature,
internationally recognised and widely used and has been translated into
several languages.
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Puan Haliza A. Hamid, a residence of Shah Alam and a mother of three
children started being involved actively in ICT community programs in
March 2002. The community programmes that she has initiated and
implemented successfully since last year are "Bicara IT" with UFM – a
weekly radio program discussing ICT, "ICT Bulletin" – a project with
the Shah Alam City Council and a Robotic Campaign for kindergartens and
schools. Her efforts have significantly increased ICT awareness among
the community in Shah Alam.
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Mr. Steve Foo Chit Chin is the creator of the Advanced Mobile Image
Capture Systems (AMICS). This application allows users to see real time
visual information through a web camera which is attached to a central
server using mobile phones.
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Mr. Lee Teck Hua created the application called
mobileBlog. mobileBlog is a application that will allow any
Java-enabled phone with an Internet connection to remotely access,
modify, update and maintain a personal web blog or journal.
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