Press Release meet in Chennai

We are having a brief Press Release meet in Chennai Press Club, Chepauk this Saturday at 11AM.(27.06.2009) Our Founder-Chairman and Advisor Prof.M.Anandakrishnan has kindly consented to chair the meet. Invitation Here

Conference Hub of the Tamil Internet 2009 Germany Conference

Dear Friends:

We are pleased to inform that Dr. Vasu Renganathan of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA has kindly agreed to our request to help us as the Chair of the Conference Programme Committee for the next Tamil Internet Conference 2009.

As informed earlier, 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).

Attendance to the Technical sessions of the conf. will be limited to 100. All interested persons should register online at the conference gateway (to be made available in the coming week): http://www.infitt.org/ti2009/

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.

The following is a collection of topics to be addressed and the list is non-exclusive. Feel free to suggest others for inclusion in the Call-for-papers to be released soon:

1) Open source software (OpenOffice, ...) and Tami Localization of softwares and OS;
2) Tamil enabling in mobile and other hand-held platforms/technologies PDA, iPhone, ....;
3) NLP Applications in Tamil: Machine Translation,OCR, voice recognition, speech synthesis, search engines, data mining of Tamil digital resources, ....;
4) Tools for Tamil Computing: word-processing (text editor, spell check, grammar check,dictionaries,..), plugins for browsers, online file convertors,.... ;
5) Tamil Internet : blogging, wikipedia, podcasting, educational portals, e-commerce,.. .....;
6) computer-aided teaching of Tamil -online, offline, multimedia tools;
7) Tamil Databases for digital libraries and e-commerce;
8) Digital archiving of Tamil heritage materials and
9) Standards for Tamil Computing : encoding, glossary,mobile, DNS,...

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.

We look forward to your support and participation in large numbers at the Tamil Internet 2009.

anbudan
Kalyan
 18.6.2009

Tamil Internet Conference 2009

The Executive Committee of INFITT is pleased to announce that the next Tamil Internet Conference 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.

Pleast take note of the date and venue for the conference. A formal call for papers with more details will be published soon.
-Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram Chair, INFITT www.infitt.org 18.6.2009