Good morning!
I am
delighted to be invited to open this International Workshop on the Perspectives
of Information Technology. On behalf of National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), I
would first like to welcome all the distinguished guests to our campus in
Hsinchu. I am very impressed with the fact that you are all working so hard and
willing to hold this workshop on a Sunday!
Information
Technology (IT) is ubiquitous in modern society. Thanks to IT, we can now access
information at any time in anywhere for almost anyone who has a handheld
device. The World Wide Web and wireless mobile networks have connected us
together regardless where we are. I have noticed that the workshop will cover
many advanced and important topics including helping people in disaster
situation to use IT, machine learning and data mining, cyber security in smart
grids, inferring data and human social relations, and the evolving relationship
between human and technology. Undoubtedly, Information Technology will
penetrate deeper into our daily life in the future. I am glad that the Institute
of Information Systems and Applications is holding such an event and bring many
international and domestic scholars together to discuss these topics in depth.
I’m grateful to all distinguished invited speakers coming from Japan, US, and
UK to share your insight and visions with our faculty and students.
I am
somewhat relieved to know that the workshop is scheduled to close at 3:00pm
this afternoon so that you will have an opportunity to tour our beautiful
campus. National Tsing Hua University has just celebrated her 101th
anniversary. The University was founded in 1911 in Beijing with the returned indemnity
from the US Government. It became a leading university in China in about 20
years. As the Nationalist Government moved to Taiwan, the former President of
the University, Dr. Mei Yi-Chi, came to Taiwan and re-established the NTHU on
this site in 1956. NTHU since then has become one of the leading research
universities in Taiwan. In all the world-wide university ranking in recent
years, we came out either No. 1 or No. 2 in Taiwan. This year is particularly
good for our faculties in terms of publishing in the prestigious journals such
as Science, Nature, and Cell. As it
stands now, in less than half of a year, five papers have been published or
scheduled to be published; comparing to a total of seven papers published in
similar outlets in the past 5 years. Our students have also performed superbly as
well. In the computer field, for example, our students won World Champion in Clustering
Computing in two consecutive Super Computer Conferences organized by IEEE and
ACM (2010 and 2011). In 2011, our students won the Championship in the Creative
Cup Competition among 424 competitors from 70 countries organized by Microsoft.
It is my hope that in the future we can further strengthen our programs through
cooperation with international top experts like you.
Finally,
I wish you have a very successful and fruitful workshop and enjoy your stay in Hsinchu
and Taiwan. Have a nice day!
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