Conference spotlights software development, information systems

AK Azad Chowdhury, chairman of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, speaks at the eighth International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications, organised by United International University on its campus in Dhaka recently. Photo: UIU

The eighth International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications or SKIMA 2014, organised by United International University (UIU) on its campus, ended in the capital yesterday.

The three-day event included sessions on software development and information systems, and disseminate ideas, experiences and insights, the university said in a statement.

Sessions were also held on Bangla computing, robotics, image recognition, data mining and machine learning, network and wireless communications, embedded systems and smartphone-based systems, it said.

Prof AK Azad Chowdhury, chairman of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, attended the event's inaugural earlier.

SM Ashraful Islam, executive director of Bangladesh Computer Council, Prof Alomgir Hossain, co-chair of the conference and Prof Pran Kanai Saha, chair of IEEE Bangladesh Section, also spoke.