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IIUC IT fest starts
A ten-day IT festival began in the city on June 10 aiming at converting individual knowledge into a combined power by exchanging views and ideas to cope with the modern technology.
The computer club of the International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC), Dhaka campus organised the festival on information and technology at the campus premises.
IIUC Vice-chancellor Prof M Mahbub Ullah inaugurated the festival as chief guest, while former secretary Shah Abdul Hannan and Prof Md Haider Ali, chairman of computer science and engineering department at Dhaka University, were present as special guests.
IIUC Associate Prof Mohammed Shamsul Alam, also convenor of the festival, presented the welcome speech at the inaugural ceremony.
He hoped that IT festivals as such will help boost the capacity of the university students to compete with the modern technology.
Referring to the emergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) society, Prof Md Haider Ali asked the authorities to arrange more seminars and workshops across the country to acquire more efficiency in this sector.
IIUC, Dhaka campus arranges IT festival every year starting in 2004 and this is the fifth consecutive programme, which is expected to finish with gaining some new ideas and inspirations.
The festival consisting of contests on math, puzzle, quiz, software development, hardware design and intra-university programing contest will end on June 21. A seminar on broadband communications will also be held tomorrow.
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