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Ian
H. Witten is Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Waikato in New Zealand where he directs the New Zealand
Digital Library research project. His research interests
include information retrieval, machine learning, text
compression, and programming by demonstration. He has
published widely in these areas, including several books,
the most recent being Managing Gigabytes (1999), How
to build a digital library (2003), Data Mining (2005)
and Web Dragons (2007), all from Morgan Kaufmann. He
received an MA in mathematics from Cambridge Unversity,England;
an MSc in computer science from the University of Calgary,
Canada; and a PhD in electrical engineering from Essex
University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of
the Royal Society of New Zealand. He received the 2004
IFIP Namur Award, a biennial honour accorded for “outstanding
contribution with international impact to the awareness
of social implications of information and communication
technology” and the 2005 SIGKDD Service Award
for “an outstanding contribution to the data mining
field” and in 2006 the Royal Society of New Zealand
Hector Medal for “an outstanding contribution
to the advancement of the mathematical and information
sciences.” |
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Prof Elok R. Tee |
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Elok
R. Tee is the research coordinator of the Faculty of
Information and Communication Technology, at Universiti
Tunku Abdul Rahman. His present research interests are
in effective IS management and the implementation of
IT governance standards. He is presently on sabbatical
working on a framework for investigation of IS. He received
an MCompSc in biometrics from Universiti Malaya; and
an MEnv in environmental science and a PhD in computer
communications from Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is
a council member of the Malaysian Scientific Association,
member of the NECF Research Commission, IEEE and Mensa
Malaysia. |
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Dr Peter Songan |
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Peter
Songan is currently a professor of human resource development
at the Faculty of Cognitive Science and Human Development,
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. He is currently the Dean
of the Centre for Applied Learning and Multimedia. In
the area of research and publications, he have been
involved in numerous research projects, resulting in
the publications of articles in refereed journals, chapters
of edited books, edited conference proceedings, articles
in conference proceedings, articles in research reports
or monographs and papers presented in conferences, seminars
and workshops. One of the major research projects that
he is now currently involved with is the e-Bario Project. |
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Alvin Yeo Wee |
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Alvin
Yeo is the Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Computer Science
and IT as well as the Team Leader of the eBario Research
Team. His Information and Communications Technology
for Rural Development (ICT4RD) research has resulted
in over 10 publications, including 3 book chapters in
The Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities
with ICT. He has been involved in the evaluation of
two Federal Government ICT4RD programme, and together
with Prof. Dr. Peter Songan, Dr Yeo co-produced A Guidebook
on Setting Up Community E-Centres in Rural Areas Based
on the Experiences in Malaysia commissioned by UNESCAP.
He is active in HCI research, specifically in software
internationalisation, multimodal interaction, and universal
accessibility, and currently is involved in language
technology research projects, focusing specifically
on indigenous languages of Sarawak. |
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