Tamil Internet Conference 2009

TIC 2009 will be held in Europe, in the city of Koeln, Germany during October 23-25, 2009.TIC 2009 will have the same format as the last TIC 2004 held in Singapore. It will be a technical conference devoted to discussing recent advances and challenges in Tamil Computing and Tamil Internet in general. To permit max. interaction, participation will be limited to 100 persons.

We invite Tamil IT professionals worldwide to participate in this conference - only one of its kind devoted exclusively for Tamil. Tamil Internet Conferences of INFITT has been held earlier in Chennai (1999,2003)Singapore (2000, 2004), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2001) and in San Francisco, California (2002). TIC 2009 will be the first conference to be held in Europe.

The TIC 2009 is being organized in close collaboration with the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies (IITS) of the University of Koeln who will serve as the local host. IITS, headed by Prof. Ulrike Niklas is one of the major Tamil Studies and Research Center of Europe. A Tamil teacher, researcher of IITS well known to Tamil community is Dr. Thomas Malten, who led a pioneering effort two decades back to bring Tamil literature in electronic form. IITS of UKoeln also has the unique distinction as the only Tamil Studies Center outside Tamilnadu to have more than 50,000 Tamil books. So we are delighted to have the next TIC at this key Institution devoted to Tamil Research in Europe.