INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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Background• IOIT - biggest IT research Institute in

Vietnam, one of 21 Institutes from VAST • Brief History: Institute established in

1976 – Institute of Computer Science and

Cybernetics (ICSC), 1976– Institute of Informatics (IOI), 1989– Institute of Information Technology

(IOIT), 1993

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Organization Chart of VAST

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Functions• Carry out basic researches on IT• Develop IT applications, technology

transfer, consult for technical IT projects in Government sectors

• Design and develop IT products (software especially)

• Train scientific researchers on IT• International cooperation in IT

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Human and Research Resources• IOIT staffs: 200 members including 45

Dr.SC., Ph.D. and 18 Prof, Assoc.Prof., organized in 16 Research Departments

• Ph.D. Programs• MS. Programs: in cooperation with VNU,

ThaiNguyen Univ. • “National Key Laboratory for Networking

Technology and Multimedia”, 2001~

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Education & Training• Ph.D. Program. More than 50 Ph.D. students

have been awarded degrees. Currently, there are over 30 Ph.D. students at IOIT

• MS Programs in cooperation with Universities• Short-term training courses in advanced topics• Teaching courses at Universities • VAST University (2008 ~…)

– Faculty of Information Technology

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Institute of Information Technology (IOIT)

Hochiminh City Branch

Department of Administration

Key-lab for Networking Technology &

Multimedia

- Integrated Software Systems- Data Management Systems- Software Engineering in Management- Databases and Programming- Geographical Information Systems- Pattern Recognition and Knowledge Engineering- Management Information Systems- Computer Networking and IT Infrastructure- Telematics- Mathematical Aspects of IT- Computational Statistics- Automation Technology- Applications of IT to Control- Expert Systems and Soft Computing- Systems and Management Research- Applications of IT to Socio-Economical Systems

Departments

NetNam ISP

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Main R&D topics• Database, Knowledge Base• Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision• Image Processing, Computer Graphics• Multimedia, Virtual Reality• Software Technology, Programming• Networking Technology, Information Security

Telecommunication• Automation and Control• Socio-Economic Systems, Management Research• Numerical Methods, Statistics

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R&D Projects• National ICT Projects (2007-2009)

– Vietnamese Language and Speech Processing– VNGRID

• NSF Projects • VAST’ Projects• Regular Basic Research Projects

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Research

• 2001-2006 (NSF Projects)– 25 books – 211 articles in a National and International

Journals– 328 scientific reports presented in different

National and International conferences / workshops in IT

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Application Projects• Support for Renovation of Education Management (SREM Project) funded by

EU• Consultancy for analysis and design of ID Card project in Ministry of Public

Security of Vietnam• Network management of Information System and Network Security in Ministry

of Public Security of Vietnam• Computerization of financial activities in Ministry of Finance• Project on network security in Vietnamese Communist Party Office• First Grand Prize in a micro-chip development contest on PSoC

2003-2004 from Cypress Microsystems• Design on PSoC smart chip of measurement equipment for temperature,

humidity and dew point • Population census project for Vietnam General Statistics Office• Outsourcing contracts for Japanese partners• Microsoft Innovation Center has been setting up at IOIT

– First step - training ICT experts with Microsoft certification – Next step - implement R&D projects between two parties in Vietnam

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Successful History• IOIT had designed and produced the first PC in

Vietnam• IOIT is a pioneer of deploying Internet in

Vietnam and NetNam - the spin off company of IOIT is one of the first four Internet Service Providers (ISP)

• IOIT is a leading research center for PhD program in Computer Science

• National Key Laboratory for Networking Technology and Multimedia – one of the two national key labs in IT – is located in the Institute

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Software Development• VnDOCR 4.0 – Optical Character Recognition software for

Vietnamese printed documents• VnOnline 1.0 - Software package for online handwritten

Vietnamese character recognition for TabletPC• VnVoice 1.0 – Vietnamese Text-to-Speech engine, a solution

for integrating embedded voice interface with applications and peripherals

• VnMobileSpeech 1.0 – Dialog voice system for smart phones using Vietnamese automatic voice recognition and Vietnamese Text-to-Speech engines

• MarkRead 1.0 – Software package for automatic mark data entry

• POPMAP - Interactive Information & Decision Support System for Population Activities

• MapScan For WINDOWS 1.0 - Software package for automatic map data entry

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International Cooperation• Japan Advanced Institute of Science an Technology (JAIST)• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and

Technology (AIST)• Asian Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3), with Keio

University, Japan.• Promoting Internet Policy and Regulatory Reform, with

Internews Europe.• Micro Impacts of Macro Economic and Adjustment Policies,

with IDRC, Canada.• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore• Kunming University of Science and Technology, China• Microsoft Corporation

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International Cooperation• Local Organizing of International Conferences

– PRICAI’08 – GRID School, 11/2007 with CNRS– Oriental COCOSDA, 11/2007 – APEC’06 for Information Privacy, E-learning– PAKDD’05, ICTAC’05– Fuzzy Systems’04, ’03, – Medical Application and Fuzzy System’04, ’02– …

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NetNam Company• Founded in 1999 following the Decision

68/1998/CP of the Government .• State own company, commercial wing of IOIT,

development and service oriented business, playing role bridging the gap between research, development and the market

• More 90 experienced employees, specialized in network solutions and in web-based applications

• Internet Service Provider (ISP), Internet Content Provider (ICP)

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Some Achievement andSoftware Development

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VARENet

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• IPv4/v6 test bed over C band sattelite

• School On Internet project

• Linked all members: VN, TH, PH, SG, ID, MY, KH, LA, MN, BD

AI3-SOI: Test bed

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VnDOCR: the Optical Character Recognition software for Vietnamese printed documents

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VnDOCR Awards

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PopMap: The Interactive Information & Decision Support System for Population Activities. The software has been widely used by more than 250 institutions in more than 100 countries

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MapScan: a software package for automatic map data entry

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MarkRead is a software package that automatically processes tests, surveys, questionnaires, converts results to database records (Excel, Access, dBase…)

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VnVoice: The Vietnamese Text To Speech system, a solution for integrating embeded voice interface with applications and periferals

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PSoC design• First Grand Prize in a micro-chip development

contest on PSoC 2003-04 from Cypress Microsystems

• Design of equipment which measures temperature, humidity and dew point and can be programmed on a PSoC smart chip

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Contact InformationINSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,VIETNAMESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• HEAD OFFICEAddress: Hoang Quoc Viet Rd., Cau Giay, Hanoi, VietnamPhone: 84-4-756 4405, Fax: 84-4-756 4217E-mail: vanthu@ioit.ac.vn; http://www.ioit.ac.vn

• BRANCH OF IOIT IN HO CHI MINH CITYAddress: No 1, Mac Dinh Chi Str., District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Phone: 84-8-822 2947; 84-8-822 1708 Fax: 84-8-822 2871

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