LAUNCH UM E-Journal Management System

KUALA LUMPUR, July 27, 2012 - IN LINE with the aspirations of the University of Malaya in journal production according to international standards, the UM management in collaboration with the Center for Information Technology launched a journal management systems more systematically and in accordance with international standards - E-Journal Management System - in a simple ceremony Court Room, UM yesterday.

"E-Journal has long existed at UM but do not attempt to move it in an integrated manner," said Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation), Professor Dr. Hamzah Abdul Rahman immediately end launch.

"The drawback is the e-journal is not in accordance with adopted standards such as journal management system such as SCORPUS and ISI. Thus management system E-Journal Management System, which was launched today more systematically and in accordance with international standards.

"Before this, the faculty have the option to list their journal in E-journal but with the introduction of E-Journal Management System, we require that all fakuti to use it because it is similar to other journals classification system such Thomson Reuters ScholarOne owned.

"This system (ScholarOne) is good, and we never thought to subscribe to the system, but did not do so because of financial constraints.

"Therefore, we take an alternative to creating our own system that is accessible to the campus community and beyond," added Dr.Hamzah.

               Professor Hamzah pressing the button on the iPad as a symbolic launch of the UM E-Journal Management System

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Aruba Networks Successfully Delivers Secure Wireless LAN at Black Hat USA 2012

07/30/2012
Sunnyvale, Calif.

WLAN Detects and Contains Over 1,500 Severe Independent Security Events

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – July 30, 2012 – Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARUN), Black Hat USA’s WLAN provider for the fourth year running, delivered another successful, secure network for attendees at this year’s event. The conference, held last week in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the world’s largest gathering of computer security professionals and hackers, and has become one of the most important computer and networking security shows as a result.

Aruba’s ability to safeguard network infrastructures against wireless security threats was put to the test at the event. The network, which was accessed by 3,155 attendees with a maximum of 904 simultaneous clients, detected and quickly contained a total of 1,561 severe independent security events. These events included more than 280 rouge access points (APs) – with some rogue APs attempting to impersonate the official event network. Other wireless attacks that were detected included Block ACK DoS attacks, Power Save DoS attacks, Deauth Broadcast, AP Spoofing and “Hotspotter” attacks. The Aruba network also detected some malicious fragmentation-based attacks from the wired side, which were all contained very quickly.

Aruba’s innovative device-fingerprinting capabilities allowed a clear picture of which devices were being used on the network. Apple devices were most prevalent at this year’s event, with iOS devices at 29.6 percent of the total and 13.7 percent for Mac OS. Linux users came in at 19.9 percent of the total, Windows were 19.2 percent and Android 17.6 percent.

The network, which covered a 200,000 square foot facility in the Caesar’s Palace Conference Center and was quickly deployed by two technicians in just over four hours, consisted of 23 mesh point Aruba AP-134 APs and 16 mesh portal Aruba AP-134 APs. The 16 mesh portal APs were wired into the hotel’s infrastructure. Also included in the network were an Aruba 3600 Mobility Controller and an Aruba S3500 Mobility Access Switch. The network was managed by Aruba’s AirWave network management system, which employs a user-centric approach to monitor network utilization, identify where the network is being accessed, the types of mobile devices in use and how much bandwidth is being consumed by specific devices.

“Black Hat USA provides an environment that puts Aruba’s WLAN solutions to the test like no other,” said Aruba engineer Robbie Gill, Ph.D., who led the design and deployment of the Black Hat network. “You simply don’t see the kind of traffic, users or volume of security incidents that you see at Black Hat USA anywhere else. This is the fourth year in a row that Black Hat USA has asked Aruba to provide the wireless network, reaffirming their confidence in the high level of performance and security we deliver to  attendees. Our enterprise customers can feel secure knowing that Aruba WLANs can effectively handle the most difficult and hostile of environments.”

* Do you know that IIUM Wireless Network Infrastrucuture is using Aruba ...

Source from http://www.arubanetworks.com/news-releases/aruba-delivers-wlan-at-black-hat-2012/

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UTM won First Prize in International Robot PRIDE Competition 2012, Kuching Sarawak

September 12, 2012
Published by sabri

JOHOR BAHRU: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) team was adjudged the First Prize (Gold) winner at the 2012 International Robot PRIDE competition in Kuching, Sarawak, on 6^th. September 2012.
They brought home RM2000, Robot NAO software, tro
phy and certificate.
The competition was organized alongside the International Robot and Intelligent Sensors Symposium IRIS2012 from 4-6 September 2012 and co-organised by Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), MySET, MyRAIG and Nagoya University.
The second prize winner was ‘Hand-Instruction Controlled Robot Car Using Kinect’ from USM while the third prize went to Swinburne University for their ‘Self-Balancing Tray’.
The objective of this competition is to explore and exhibit innovative ideas and design within the scope of Robotics, Sensors, Automation and Intelligent Systems.
Team leader, Dr Yeong Che Fai, said the competition was open to participants from all countries with three open categories: School, University/Colleges and Industrial/Individual. Others team member were Dr Eileen Su Lee Ming, Hisyam Abdul Rahman, Tan Ping Hua and Ricky Yap Wee Yang.
“Winning entries were determined based on three rounds of judging, with different set of panels for each round.
“The first round is a project proposal selection by the organizers; the second round is an exhibition with interview while the final round is a presentation to international panels,” he said.
UTM team submitted a project entitled ‘One degree-of-freedom Haptic Device to Train Stroke Patient’s Forearm Pronation/Supination’ under the University/College category few months earlier for review and was among the shortlisted 16 proposals in our category to advance to second round.
Besides each team from Japan and India, the other shortlisted teams were from Malaysian institutes of higher learning.
Dr Yeong, who presented the product on behalf of the team said, during the second round exhibition judging, the university teams were evaluated by three judges – two international judges from Iran and a Malaysian industrial representative.
“The judges selected only six teams from the exhibition to advance to the final round. The finalist teams were from UTM, USM, Swinburne University, UM and UiTM with two teams.
“The final round presentation took place the next day with international judges from London, Japan and India,” he cited.
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Beating the gridlock

Story by Fiona Killman

Associate Professor Hai Vu with Andrew Wall, Manager Network Operations at VicRoads Photo: Eamon Gallagher

Traffic managers across Australia are under constant pressure to ensure roads run efficiently as the growing population increases traffic congestion. This is why the Victorian Road Authority, VicRoads, is working with Swinburne to implement an intelligent transport system for Melbourne.

“There is a lot more traffic on the road network, especially in the inner and middle parts of Melbourne,” Andrew Wall, Manager Network Operations at VicRoads says. “There is no more space to build our way out of the problem, so we have got to be smarter about how we use our existing roads. This involves the use of intelligent transport systems to give priority to transport that moves more people, and encourages drivers to make different choices about how they travel.”

To develop the system, Swinburne and VicRoads launched Victoria’s first dedicated traffic analysis research centre in April. Researchers at the Swinburne Intelligent Transport Systems Laboratory, based at the Hawthorn campus, will analyse live traffic data to develop new technology and algorithms to help improve traffic flow and make the journey safer for drivers by reducing collisions and managing disruptions.
Better informed, better managed trafficWall says the Swinburne team will receive data from every signalised intersection in Melbourne. “By partnering with academia we open up opportunities for more research that not only assists us to better manage the roads and make use of the wealth of data we collect, but also provides fantastic learning opportunities for students and researchers,” he says.

Head of the laboratory, Associate Professor Hai Vu, from Swinburne’s Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, says advancements in technology enabling better access to more accurate, real-time information, inspired him to look into intelligent transport systems and approach VicRoads.

“I live in Melbourne and like many other big cities, traffic congestion has a huge impact on social and economic activities – not to mention how frustrating it can be for drivers. I see the opportunity where understanding how and when congestion occurs from traffic data can help to improve the situation. This is the idea underpinning this exciting new partnership,” he says.

“We can apply information and knowledge gained from traffic data to better utilise and manage our road infrastructure, and Swinburne has a lot of research activities and expertise in this area,” he says.
Rethinking transport systemsThe Swinburne team brings to the project extensive research expertise in networks and data communication, artificial intelligence and knowledge of data intensive systems, their management and control. The team also has expertise in sustainable infrastructure and transportation.

Associate Professor Vu says the laboratory will collaborate with Australian and international universities, including the University of Queensland, University of Melbourne and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. This will form partnerships with other leading researchers tackling this difficult problem and leverage the experience of similar initiatives overseas such as the co-operative traffic management centre in the Netherlands.

Wall says the initial role of VicRoads is to provide access to data and the traffic signal system; however, they plan to work with researchers in the near future to identify problems and solutions to improve traffic flow and reduce collisions and incidents.

“The university researchers have a lot of different skills and can bring completely different ways of thinking,” he says.
The driver experience“What people value is reliability,” Wall says. “If it generally takes a driver 20 minutes to get to work, we want it to consistently take 20 minutes.”

Intelligent transport systems aim to deliver more consistent and safer travel through improved traffic management, increased use of public transport and new technology. In the short term, this will mean changes to traffic signal timing in hot spots, as well as other strategies to improve traffic flow and ensure less disruption to public transport.

In the future, improved navigation systems could provide drivers with optimal turn-by-turn guidance based on live information about traffic congestion and incidents on their travel path. On-board technology could also identify when a driver is stressed or fatigued.

Under an intelligent transport system, communication between vehicles – an area Associate Professor Vu has been researching for some time – has the potential to reduce collisions and fatalities on the road by warning surrounding vehicles about sudden braking or other problems, so drivers can react faster.

“My vision is a transportation system where we can have cars, trains, buses and trams all connected, sharing information and interacting with people. It’s all part of a future digital society,” Associate Professor Vu says.
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Award winning technology detects faults before blackouts

A Curtin University researcher who developed a technique to detect transformer faults responsible for power outages is the winner of the 2012 Curtin Commercial Innovation Awards.

Dr Ahmed Abu-Siada has created a software-based technique that creates an image of how the transformer should be functioning, and then detects faults in real-time without disrupting the supply of power.
Director of Curtin’s Office of IP Commercialisation, Rohan McDougall, said transformers are a vital piece of electricity infrastructure, and transformer failures can be catastrophic, leading to explosions, fires and power outages, making this a critical innovation.
“When a major fault occurs on an in-service transformer, the results can be far-reaching, requiring costly repairs, causing environmental damage and resulting in potential for serious injury – the costs can run into millions of dollars,” he said.
“But this technique created by Dr Abu-Siada is able to identify the type of fault, and even issue an early warning signal, causing minimal disruption to electricity supply and end users.”
The real advantage to the technique is its ability to be applied every 20 milliseconds to immediately detect changes to the transformer. It uses algorithms to provide a visual output to the service technician, who can then identify the faulty transformer and know the fault type they are dealing with before fixing it.
Curtin is currently looking at opportunities to develop commercial relationships to further develop and implement this unique technology.
Professor Xiangyu Wang was named runner-up for developing an integrated system for the iPad and other handheld devices, to solve significant time and cost issues in mega construction projects. The system works by intelligently extracting information from a variety of sources and putting it in the hands of the worker, in situ.
The Early Research Career Award was presented to a PhD student, Chiragkumar Desai, who developed a mini-emulsion method for drug delivery, which improves the bioavailability and safety profile of drugs.
The Awards were established in 2007 and aim to identify new technologies, products or services arising from research at Curtin, with prizes for this year totalling more than $40,000 in cash and in commercialisation services provided by the award’s sponsors.
Curtin’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Development, Professor Graeme Wright, said the winning technology was a fine example of the University’s high level, industry-relevant research and focus on providing a range of practical solutions to community needs.
“Dr Ahmed Abu-Siada is well deserving of this award and the detection of faults in power transformers is a great example of the commercial potential coming out of Curtin,” Professor Wright said.
“All of our finalists and winners at today’s Awards demonstrate the University’s strength in this area and should be commended for their achievements. In the years to come, we will see many more fine examples of products and solutions that offer real commercial potential and provide significant benefits to the community.

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Techno Fashion launches cutting-edge Design Hub

Curtin University will bring the exciting world of high-tech fashion to life in a free one-off parade to launch its new Fashion Design and Research Hub.
The parade, Techno Fashion, is part of Perth Fashion Festival. It will be held at 3pm on Thursday 20 September at STM Fashion Central in Forrest Place in the unique Inflate Air Cube, an air filled eco-cube, which is making its first appearance as part of the Festival this year.
Anne Farren, Curtin University School of Design and Art Lecturer said the creations would showcase the new technology the University and local fashion industry now had at its fingertips, and challenge the way people thought about garments and how they were constructed.
“Just as technology has shaped the way we communicate and socialise with one another, so too has it shaped the future of fashion, with specialist machinery now able to assist in the conception, design and construction of garments,” Ms Farren said.
“Techno Fashion will have a high-tech and sustainable-tech focus, showcasing the possibilities of what can be created in the Hub, while also exploring traditional techniques and their relevance to contemporary design.
“As well as linking into national research the Hub will service the local WA fashion industry and allow designers and other users to access the revolutionary Shima Seiki WholeGarment® Knitting System, which produces knitwear in one entire piece, three-dimensionally, directly on the knitting machine, laser cutting facilities and a body scanner, to create more comfortable garments.
“The research that we’re doing tries to integrate technologies and recognise the value of not just new technologies, but those that have gone before, so we can move things forward taking the best of both worlds.”
The Fashion Design and Research Hub, only the second Hub of its kind in Australia, came out of a national initiative and will link in with the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia.
It will operate on a user-pays system and will also be available for use by Curtin design students.
Perth Fashion Festival runs 19 – 25 September and is supported by the Western Australian State Government through Eventscorp, the Department of Culture and the Arts and the City of Perth.
For further information regarding PFF 2012 program of visit www.perthfashionfestival.com.au

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