Upcoming activities

Below stated the upcoming activities that will be held in UMS:

Title : Program Jejak Sinar Ramadhan (PJSR 2009)
Date : 05 September 2009 - 06 September 2009
Venue : Dewan Serbaguna Kolej Kediaman CD
Details:

Butiran program :
Aktiviti yang dianjurkan :

1) Pertandingan Tilawah al-Quran

2) Pertandingan Hafazan

3) Pertandingan Tulisan Jawi

4) Pertandingan Khat

5) Pertandingan Azan

6) Pertandingan Nasyid

7) Pertandingan Puisi

8) Pertandingan Cerpen

9) Pertandingan Kuiz Berkumpulan



*Pelbagai hadiah menarik dan sijil penyertaan disediakan.

*Tarikh tutup puisi dan cerpen adalah 3 September 2009


Sebarang pertanyaan, sila hubungi :


Robiyyana : 014-8531346
Diyana : 017-7700437
Khairuddin : 013-8581451

Thoughts for tech impact on higher education

The Ninth International Conference on Information(ICI9) which held in Kuala Lumpur was to discuss about the impacts of technologies on higher education. The theme of the conference is " Learning Innovations in Higher Education" which will also explore new ideas and innovations in open learning, mobile learning and e-learning and their impact on higher education. I think that this conference will be very important for us because now we are entering the technology era so mostly the devices that we used are mostly electronic devices.

E-learning would be a useful method us to use in higher education. It is because we can simply access to the web and simply key in the info that we want to find rather than finding a book which we does not know about the contains. This will waste all the time of the students in the university. Besides that, we can get all the lecture without missing a word.

ICI9 is aimed to stimulate and exchange ideas and experiences among participants institution which I think is good because we can know how is the teaching and learning method of other countries. Like in Australia, they have a system that can help to check for plagiarism which the student can easily check whether their articles is the same or not.

Therefore, I think that this conference should always be held so that we can keep up to latest technology that are useful for higher education use.

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Cisco launches medianet infrastructure

By 2013, 90% of Internet traffic will be video and companies must have the right infrastructure in place to capitalise on this trend effectively, according to networking giant Cisco. “Video is dominating the Internet and this is a strain on the network, especially for service providers,” said managing director for Cisco Malaysia Anne Abraham.

To this end, Cisco is offering enterprises a type of intelligent network infrastructure that caters, in large part, to video-based utilities and services known generically as a medianet. The medianet is designed to be aware of media transmitted, the end point device and the bandwidth available and adapts and manages accordingly which involves reformating the video and lowering the broadcast resolution when bandwidth dips

MTV Networks and Time Warner Cable are two large US broadcasting companies that have recently installed Cisco’s medianet and there are 350 medianet systems that had being installed in the United States and other countries. Although Cisco concedes that the effectiveness of the medianet is largely at the mercy of the availability and effectiveness of a broadband network, the company insists that as the Internet infrastructure matures in Malaysia, the medianet will become an invaluable asset.

For more information, go to www.cisco.com.

White House: Pakistan modified U.S.-made missiles - NYT

The Obama administration has accused Pakistan of illegally modifying U.S.-made missiles to expand its ability to hit land-based targets, which would constitute a threat to India.

Citing senior administration and Congressional officials, the Times said the charge came in late June through an unpublicized diplomatic protest to Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and other top Pakistani officials. The accusation, made amid growing concerns about Pakistan's increasingly rapid conventional and nuclear weapons development, triggered a new round of U.S.-Pakistani tensions.

The missile tested was developed by Pakistan, just as it had modified North Korean designs to build a range of land-based missiles that could strike India, according to the Times. U.S. officials said the disputed weapon is a conventional one based on the Harpoon antiship missiles that were sold to Pakistan during the Reagan administration as a defensive weapon, the newspaper reported, but the charges come as the Obama administration is seeking Congressional approval for $7.5 billion in aid for Pakistan over the next five years.

The accusation stems from U.S. intelligence agencies' detection of a suspicious missile test on April 23 which was never announced by the Pakistanis and which appeared to give it a new offensive weapon. U.S. military and intelligence officials suspect Pakistan of modifying the Harpoon sold to them in the 1980s, which would violate the Arms Control Export Act.

Pakistan denied the charge and said it developed the missile.The missiles would bolster Pakistan's ability to threaten India, stoking fears of heating up the two nations' arms race.

Malaysia ranked 11th most preferred study destination

The conclusion was based on the fact that 69,154 international students from more than 150 countries have chosen Malaysia as the country they wanted to study in.

With the majority of students coming from Indonesia, China and the Middle East, the new figure was a 26.5% increase from the old count of 50,788, which was recorded on March 31 last year. The ranking was obtained from the Institute of International Education. The ministry’s target to have 80,000 international students by 2010 was achievable.

The ministry has already given the green light for Newcastle University of Medicine to set up a branch campus at Iskandar Malaysia’s Educity in Nusajaya, Johor.It is understood that local conglomerates are negotiating with the Korean Maritime Univer-sity, Southampton University, Royal Holloway University, King’s College London, the Univer-sity of Birmingham and Murdoch University to set up branch campuses in Malaysia.