Great achievement for Saudi students from King Saud University, the “UT” team will represent Saudi Arabia in the 6th Sixth Scientific Conference for the care of the talented in Jordan.
Read more about it on Riyadh newspaper and Sabq (Arabic site).Forget about these links! Read actual info about it (in Arabic) on Abdullah Driaan’s site.
The odd thing is the website for “Sixth Scientific Conference for the care of the talented” apparently expired? The domain won’t expire until 2010 but now it’s only showing ads unlike this cache.
The news source didn’t mention what UT stands for I would assume “Ultrasonic testing”? Can someone clarify? The sites did mention Dr Man-Gon Park. Anyone knows please tell me.
Update: Thanks Abdullah for posting this. “UT” stands for Ubiquitous Technology which is actually Ubiquitous computing, a form of human-computer interaction (HCI). Now it makes some sense.
Update 2: Thank you Dr. Man-Gon Park for posting your comment on this entry:
I am Prof. Dr. Man-Gon Park with department of the IT Convergence and Application Engineering, College of Engineeing, PuKyong National University, Rep. of Korea.
I was Director General and CEO of the Colombo Plan Staff College (http://www.cpsctech.org) which is an international organization for HRD in Asia and the Pacific region with its 29 Member governments. Also I was the president of Korean Multimedia Society.
It appears there is a Saudi mad scientist living in Jeddah. From The Local, a German site:
A Saudi inventor filed a patent for a “killer chip” which, once implanted, would monitor “undesirables” using a GPS. Oh, and it also comes with an extra feature: a remote-controlled cyanide dispenser, for murder.
The tiny electronic device, dubbed the “Killer Chip” by Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger, would be suited for tracking fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don’t return home from pilgrimages.
Do we seriously need to invent something this stupid? And how can he put pilgrims and terrorists in the same sentence? This is stupid and disturbing.