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SITE UPDATE UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA by Dr. Wan Tat Chee & Chong Yung Wey 1. Academic Calendar
Academic Calendar USM 2012/2013 Academic Year
Monday, 10 September 2012 – Sunday, 8 September 2013
FIRST SEMESTER
Monday, 10 September 2012 – Friday, 18 January 2013 (19 Weeks)
Activity Date Duration
Teaching and Learning Monday, 10 September 2012 – Friday, 9 November 2012 9 weeks
Mid-Semester Break Saturday, 10 November 2012 – Sunday, 18 November 2012 1 week
Teaching and Learning Monday, 19 November 2012 – Friday, 21 December 2012 5 weeks
Revision Week Saturday, 22 December 2012 – Tuesday, 1 January 2013 1 week
Examination Wednesday, 2 January 2013 – Friday, 18 January 2013 3 weeks
Inter-Semester Break Saturday, 19 January 2013 – Sunday, 17 February 2013 4 weeks
SECOND SEMESTER Monday, 18 February 2013 – Friday, 28 June 2013 (19 Weeks)
Activity Date Duration
Teaching and Learning Monday, 18 February 2013 – Friday, 5 April 2013 7 weeks
Mid-Semester Break Saturday, 6 April 2013 – Sunday, 14 April 2013 1 week
Teaching and Learning Monday, 15 April 2013 – Friday, 31 May 2013 7 weeks
Revision Week Saturday, 1 June 2013 – Sunday, 9 June 2013 1 week
Examination Monday, 10 June 2013 – Friday, 28 June 2013 3 weeks
Inter-Academic Session Break Saturday, 29 June 2013 – Sunday, 8 September 2013 10 weeks
COURSES DURING LONG VACATION Saturday, 29 June 2013 – Sunday, 8 September 2013 (10 Weeks)
Activity Date Duration
Vacation Saturday, 29 June 2013 – Sunday, 21 July 2013 3 weeks
Teaching and Learning Monday, 22 July 2013 – Friday, 2 August 2013 2 weeks
Examination Monday, 5 August 2013 – Friday, 9 August 2013 1 week
Vacation Saturday, 10 August 2013 – Sunday, 8 September 2013 4 weeks
25 April 2012
2. Committee Members 2.1 - Steering committee
Prof. Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass Director of National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAv6) [email protected] Phone: +604 653 3004
Dr. Wan Tat Chee Associate Professor/ Joint Staff, School of Computer Sciences/NAv6 Centre [email protected] Phone: +604 653 3617
Puan Rosnah Idrus Senior Lecturer/Joint Staff, School of Computer Sciences/NAv6 Centre [email protected] Phone: +604 653 4384
Chong Yung Wey Lecturer, National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAv6) [email protected] Phone: +604 653 4631
2.2 - Academic committee
Prof. Dr. Rosni Abdullah Dean, School of Computer Sciences [email protected] Phone: +604 653 3647
Dr. Wan Tat Chee Associate Professor/ Joint Staff, School of Computer Sciences/NAv6 Centre [email protected] Phone: +604 653 3617
Puan Rosnah Idrus Senior Lecturer/Joint Staff, School of Computer Sciences/NAv6 Centre [email protected] Phone: +604 653 4384
2.3 - Operation committee SOI Operator: Nor Azman (CS) AI3 Operator: Dawood Activities:
HTML5 Workshop Entrepreneurship Course (Management of Emerging Businesses) 3. Distance Learning Environment Update School of Computer Sciences now has Videoconferencing system to support two-way connection 4. Technical Update None 5. Network Update SOI RR now uses USM Global IPv4 address for return path, to route via MYREN network. 6. National Research and Education Network (NREN) update N/A 7. Your organization’s role in NREN
8. Lecture attending situation School of Computer Sciences coordinated the HTML5 Workshop. A total of 43 participants attended the first workshop session. Most of the participants are attentive audience. The only shortcoming in the workshop is the poor video quality during hands-on.
The Entrepreneurship course is conducted by Pn. Rosnah Idrus at USM. This course is attended by all Final Year Computer Science students, and live lectures from USM as well as other partner sites in the course are shared among the participants. USM is also participating in the Dream Team Project. 9. Ideas: how to make student more active to join the class? N/A 10. Research and Development in Network, including applications None 11. Will your organization to be host next AI3-SOI-Asia bi-annual meeting?
Write your availability to be the host of future AI3/SOI-Asia bi-annual meetings here: