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Tamil Internet Conference 2009
"கணிவழி காண்போம் தமிழ்"
October 23-25, 2009
Institute of Indology
and Tamil Studies (IITS) 
of the UNIV. OF COLOGNE GERMANY

Breaking News
  • Latest Press Report 28.10.2009(Photos , Videos , Media Extracts related TIC 2009)

  • Program Schedule has been  released! Click here to view it

  • INFITT having a brief Press Release meet in Chennai Press Club, Chepauk this Saturday(27.6.2009) at 11AM. Our Founder-Chairman and Advisor Prof.M.Anandakrishnan has kindly consented to chair the meet.

  • Dr. Vasu Renganathan of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA is the Chair of the Conference Programme Committee for the next Tamil Internet Conference 2009.

  • TI2009 will be held in Germany at the Tamil Institute IITS of the Univ. of Cologne during October 23-25, 2009. We will have a number of technical sessions on various topics of Tamil Computing-IT and on Tamil Internet for 2.5 days (Friday afternoon & whole of Saturday and Sunday).

  • Registered members of INFITT will be able to attend the conference free of cost. Non-members have to pay a conf. registration fee of 50 Euro . If registered on or before 30 August 2009, INFITT members will be given preference for admission to the conference. We are exploring the possibilities of having a Tamil Software exhibition and Tamil IT Workshops as additional events. We will post details once we have firm arrangements on these.

  • Those who would like to make an oral presentation should submit a brief abstract at the conf. gateway on or before 15 August 2009. Conf. Program Committee will review all submissions and select possibly 15-20 papers for presentation at various tech. sessions. As in the past, extended abstracts (max 4 pages) of all accepted papers for the conf. will be published in the Conference Book and also in e-form in a CD/DVD. INFITT reserve rights for publication of all papers presented at the conference. More>>>

We are pleased to inform that a tentative schedule for the Tamil Internet 2009 conference (who will talk on what and when) is now available here  Please consider this schedule still as tentative because several authors still have not confirmed on their attendance (waiting for visa, travel grants,...). Our Chair Prof.Kalyan wish you all A HAPPY DEEPAVALI, a safe and enjoyable trip to Cologne and look forward to meeting you there in few days.

Message from INFITT Chair

Dear All!
We are pleased to inform that the next Tamil Internet Conference will be held at the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies (IITS) of the UNIV. OF COLOGNE IN GERMANY, during OCTOBER 23 -25, 2009

We take this opportunity to invite all members of INFITT and the Tamil Diaspora at large to participate in this Tamil Internet Conference in large numbers and make it a grand success. This will be the first time INFITT organizing this major gathering of all those interested or involved in Tamil computing/Information Technology and Tamil Internet in Europe. Western Europe has been the home for several thousand Tamils from Sri Lanka and so we look forward to their participation in large numbers.

Soon we will a fully functional conference portal made available at our <infitt.org> website under http://www.infitt.org/ti2009/ where we will provide more and more information in coming weeks.

Univ. of Cologne authorities have agreed to help all participants planning to attend TI2009 with support papers to get the required VISA. For us to organize this efficiently, we strongly urge all those who planning to attend the conference do sign up at our website as soon as possible.Feel free to forward this posting to your friends for information.

-Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram Chair, INFITT