Research and Development Program Innovative Solutions for a Prosperous Future
The ITI's R & D program initiates collaborative research and
development efforts appropriate to the economic and
educational context of the GCC. Our aim is to reinforce the
R & D relationship between industry and academia. Students
and faculty have access to a vast network that will expose
them to the latest technological breakthroughs, innovative
applications and most current research methodologies.
“Among the reasons are weak network links between R&D institutions and
the production and service sectors and the absence of, or marked gaps in,
vital innovation “brokers” such as research institutes and think tanks that
occupy an intermediary position between R&D production and marketing.”
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The Arab Human Development Report – 2003
Building a
Knowledge Society
The
ITI is researching novel pervasive computing concepts on the mobile
phone. The initial emphasis is on applications and systems that are
mobile enabled because of the pervasive nature of the mobile phone.
Interesting applications are being developed on the mobile phone
platform which is the most pervasive platform to date.
UDrive
InBoss
BlueStream
are all applications that
are pervasive in nature, and developed for the mobile phone.
Cryptography
The science of cryptography has not received much
attention at the University level in the Middle East.
The ITI is focusing on building awareness of this topic
among students and faculty members alike by building a
research group that focuses on developing cryptography
algorithms and researching new ideas in cryptography.
The main research project at this stage focuses on One
Time Pads, the most secure encryption algorithm known to
man and by far the one that seems impossible to crack.
( There are no known attacks on One Time Pad based
systems ).
The project aims to build a lean, portable One Time Pad
that could be used in enterprise systems to secure data
in the middle east.
The research objective is to code in C a one Time Pad
Encryption algorithm and make the source code available
to anyone through Open Source.
Currently the web page for the project is under
construction and will be launched soon with a mailing
list, a group of online resources.
Faculty members and students interested in participating
in this project should contact Mr. Kamal Mugahid Elzain
at ITI at the following email address.
Mobile phone manufacturers have adopted a new
operating system – Symbian OS – to meet an
increasing range of user requirements. The
introduction of packet-switched 2.5G and 3G
networks, which bring with them the promise of
always- connected devices, has built up a great deal
of expectation.
Symbian
OS (Operating System) is the global industry
standard operating system for smartphones. It is
used by the majority of leading hand set
manufacturers, thus accounting for over 85 per cent
of annual worldwide mobile phone sales.
ITI develops all its mobile applications for
the Symbian OS because of the widespread adoption of
Symbian.
Currently the preferred handset of choice is the
Symbian powered Sony Ericsson P900.
Faculty members and students interested in
participating in this project should contact Mr.
Kamal Mugahid Elzain at ITI at the following email
address.
Is a wireless technology used to connect electronic
devices, some of which are cellular phones, printers,
digital cameras and palm top computers. It is short
ranged, but designed to exchange data at speeds up to
720 kbits/sec in the range of 10 meters.
Bluetooth, and not blue tooth, was named after the
Danish King Harald Blatand (Bluetooth), the man who
unified Denmark and Norway.
As of 2004, Bluetooth
Technology is available on nearly all mobile phone
devices thereby achieving near ubiquity, hence new
applications and services that use Bluetooth will
continue to grow in the next few years.
Our Showcase
In our
showcase we display a set of different innovative ideas that we developed
in-house or along with our partners.
Moreover, several events are to be held in order to show the valuable
content of our showcase.
Mobile phone manufacturers have adopted a new
operating system – Symbian OS – to meet an
increasing range of user requirements. The
introduction of packet-switched 2.5G and 3G
networks, which bring with them the promise of
always- connected devices, has built up a great deal
of expectation.
