2005 Media Releases
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Infotech - from crime prediction to genetic engineering
One of the largest information technology conferences ever in Melbourne – the International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005) – begins tomorrow.
The conference is being held at Hilton on the Park in Melbourne, with some sessions on La Trobe University’s main Melbourne campus at Bundoora.
It will be opened at 9 am by La Trobe University Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Professor Brian Stoddart, and the Chair of State Parliament's Sub-committee on Information Technology and E-democracy, Mr Michael Leighton. The Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Ms Marsha Thomson, will also attend.
Organised and hosted by the School of Business at La Trobe University, the conference will be held from 14 to 16 September. It has attracted more than 700 delegates from 40 countries, a large number from the Asia-Pacific region.
Presentations about the latest developments will be delivered by researchers from 400 universities (20 Australian universities) and from industry bodies world-wide, such as CSIRO and DSTO (Australia); Daewoo (South Korea); and Hitachi, NTT, and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Japan).
About 100 technical sessions will demonstrate how far intelligent systems have come in translating research into commercial applications in practically all areas of business, commerce and engineering.
Conference General Chair, Dr Rajiv Khosla, Associate Professor in the School of Business at La Trobe University’s main Melbourne campus at Bundoora, says Intelligent Information and Engineering systems cover an enormous range of endeavour, from finance, banking, tourism, manufacturing and automation to health care, bioinformatics, medical diagnosis, genetic engineering – as well as security and defence.
Dr Khosla heads La Trobe University’s Business Systems and Knowledge Modelling (BSKM) Research Laboratory. The laboratory carries out applied research and develops IT products and prototypes for commercial applications, among them face recognition software that could eventually be used to sweep crowds for security purposes – for example in subways, airports or at sporting events.
Other projects range from data mining; customer relationship management in banking and finance; resource planning; ‘smart’ recruitment systems; environmental benchmarking in manufacturing to emergency and critical events; health care and medical diagnostics, biometrics and bioinformatics.