News 2012

News 2012

May 2012

• New Appointments at CIT / Fall 2012
  Tue, 29 May 2014
  Professor Bataineh received his BS degree from Syracuse University in 1985 and Master and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990 and 1992 respectively.

• CIT Faculty Jose Berengueres (CIT) won 2nd prize at Startup Weekend Abu Dhabi
  Tue, 29 May 2014
  FIT Faculty Jose Berengueres (FIT) won 2nd prize at Startup Weekend Abu Dhabi A team formed by Mouza Delham (B4 Architects), Sajit Kamal (TEDxAlain) and Dr. Jose Berengueres (FIT) won 2nd prize at Startup Weekend Abu Dhabi last weekend.
  

• CIT Faculty Najah Abu Ali publishes a book
  Mon, 21 May 2012
  There exists a strong demand for fully extending emerging Internet services, including collaborative applications and social networking, to the mobile and wireless domain.
  

• CIT Plans a Low Power Semiconductor Technology Center
  Thu, 3 May 2012
  An important milestone of UAEU is to contribute to Abu Dhabi’s vision of a semiconductor-knowledge based economy. The UAE University places a great emphasis on the development of this area.
  

• Immersive Learning Lab invited to "Next Generation Multimedia Research and Development" at NYU Abu Dhabi
  Thu, 3 May 2012
  FIT faculty Yacine Atif has been invited to present the Immersive Learning Lab at the "Next Generation Multimedia Research and Development" event on 2&3 May 2012 at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus.  
  

March 2012

• Gulf News reports a Keynote Address delivered by CIT Professor: Shayma Al Kobaisi
  Mon, 12 Mar 2012
  Enrolment increases at universities but there is a shortage of female faculty members countrywide
  

• UAE Ministry of Education adopts a technology invented by CIT Ph.D. student Anas Youssef Boubas
  Thu, 1 Mar 2012
  Ministry of Education announced the use of the audio interactive paper book and the digital pen technologies to be first ministry at the international level in this domain.
  

Feb 2012

• CIT Organizes a Programming Contest
  Wed, 29 Feb 2012
  FIT held its annual Programming Contest where both male and female students shared their love and skill for Programming to solve original problems prepared by FIT faculty.

• Hesham Kamel and Abderahmane Lakas, CIT Professors interviewed by The National
  Sun, 19 Feb 2012
  Hesham Kamel, an engineer who cannot see, doesn't dare cross the street alone. And given the speeding culture on UAE roads, he reckons even sighted pedestrians need to watch out.

• New faculty join CIT
  Sun, 5 Feb 2012
  Three new faculty joint FIT. Fekri Kharbash and Ahmed Al Fresi successfully completed the TA Program of the UAE University that led them to respectively graduate from Missouri, Kanssas and George Mason Universities.
  

• Eman Abu Khousa, a CIT PhD student gets Best Paper Award
  Sun, 5 Feb 2012
  Eman Abu Khousa, a FIT PhD student research paper has been selected for the Best Paper Award at the 4th e-Health and Environment Conference in the Middle East held in Dubai from Jan 30 to Feb 1, 2012.

Jan 2012

• Patent issued to CIT Professor: Dr. Issa Khalil
  Tue, 31 Jan 2012
  Dr. Issa Khalil, a FIT faculty, has been awarded a US Patent for developing a "Protocol for Secure and Energy-Efficient Reprograming of Wireless Multi-hop Sensor Networks".
  

• CIT-Industry Synergy: Boosting Partnership and Entrepreneurship
  Mon, 23 Jan 2012
  HE Mr. Ibrahim Mohamed Lari, Managing Director of Injazat, Mr. Toufic Derbass, Software Services Sales Manager for HP Middle East and Dr. Mohamed Baka, ADWEA Chairman Advisor visited FIT facility today to explore partnership opportunities and boost entrepreneurship among FIT students.
  

• CIT celebrates its Fall 2011 Graduates
  Tue, 10 Jan 2012
  Videos from Youtube channel.