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|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: larger;" | '''UP Diliman Department of Computer Science'''
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| colspan="2" style="padding: 1em 0; text-align: center;" | [[Image:Upd_dcs_logo.jpg]] <br />
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! style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Established
| style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | 1981
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! style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Type
| style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Academic department
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! style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Chairperson
| style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Dr. Jaime D.L. Caro
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! style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Location
| style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall, Velasquez St., [[UP Diliman]], Quezon City, Philippines
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! style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | Website
| style="border-top: solid 1px #aaaaaa;" | [http://dcs.upd.edu.ph dcs.upd.edu.ph]
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==UP Diliman Department of Computer Science==

===Department profile===
The [[Department of Computer Science]] is one of nine departments in the [[University of the Philippines]] [[UP_College_of_Engineering|College of Engineering]]. It is located in the [[UP Diliman]] Campus, which is the flagship campus of the University of the Philippines System.

The Department of Computer Science administers the four-year Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Program and the Master of Science in Computer Science program. The department currently has 550 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

The BSCS program is designed to equip the student with knowledge of the fundamental concepts and a reasonable mastery of the basic tools and techniques in computer science. The undergraduate program incorporates the core material, which is universally accepted as common to Computer Science undergraduate programs (computer programming, computer organization, computer system]]s, data structures and algorithms, file processing, and programming languages). Underpinning the software orientation of the program are the subjects on database systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, computer networks and special problems (primarily, software projects).

The Master of Science in Computer Science program is administered also by the CS Department. The program aims to provide the student with both breadth and depth of knowledge in the concepts and techniques related to the design, programming, and application of computing systems.

===Research interests===
* Biomedical computing
* Computer security
* Computer vision and machine intelligence
* Software engineering (information systems, database systems and Internet technologies)
* Computer networks
* Theoretical computer science

===Java Competency Center===
The UP-Mirant Java Education Center and the UP Java Research and Development Center compose the UP Java Competency Center and is part of the ASEAN Java Competency Programme. The UP Java Competency Center is a partnership of the [[University of the Philippines]], Ayala Foundation, Mirant Foundation and Sun Microsystems.

==Official websites==
* [http://dcs.upd.edu.ph UP Department of Computer Science]
* [http://www.engg.upd.edu.ph UP College of Engineering]
* [http://www.upd.edu.ph University of the Philippines - Diliman]
* [http://www.up.edu.ph University of the Philippines]
* [http://updcsaa.com UP Diliman DCS Alumni Association]
* [http://ittc.up.edu.ph/ UP Information Technology Training Center]

==The UP CS Network (UP Alliance of Computer Science Organizations)==

The UP CS Network is the first student organization alliance of its kind in the UP Diliman College of Engineering. The Network is composed of two socio-academic organizations (UP CURSOR and UP CompSoc), two academic organizations (UP ACM and UnPLUG), two department service arms (UP Parser and DCS SA), one college service arm (UP Engineering Webteam), and one university service arm (CRS).

The first full active school year of existence of the CS Network (AY 2005-06) culminated in the Department of Computer Science being adjudged the College's Best Department for the year by the Engineering Student Council (see [http://ccrux.corsarius.net/2006/04/15/cs-the-best-department-for-ay-05-06/ related external link]).

* Association for Computing Machinery - UP Student Chapter ([http://www.upacm.org UP ACM]), the first and only ACM student chapter in the Philippines and three-time winner of the ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards (see ACM Chapter Excellence [http://www.acm.org/chapters/stu/essay_contest.html homepage] and the [http://ccrux.corsarius.net/2006/08/19/pinoy-student-org-beats-the-worldagain/ announcement] of the 2005-06 award)
* [http://crs.upd.edu.ph Computerized Registration System (CRS)]
* [http://www.upparser.com The UP Parser (Official Student Publication of the DCS)], the first department-based newspaper in the UP Diliman College of Engineering
* UP Association of Computer Science Majors ([http://www.upcursor.org UP CURSOR]), Winner of the 2006 Engineering Organization Excellence Awards. UP CURSOR is a consistent placer in the Engineering Week.
* [http://upcompsoc.deep-ice.com UP Computer Society (UP CompSoc)]
* [http://www.engg.upd.edu.ph/webteam UP Engineering Webteam]
* [http://www.uplug.org UP Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG)]
* DCS Student Assistants (DCS SA)

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Fvortiz:

Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology

2009-02-09T05:45:15Z

Fvortiz: About the Philippine Youth Congress in I.T. (Y4iT)

[[Image:y4it-logo.gif|thumb|right|Youth for IT Logo]]

The '''Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology''' or '''''Y4iT''''' is an annual conference held in the [[Philippines]] organized by the [[University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center]] (UP ITTC). Every year, thousands of young IT professionals and students from the Philippines attend this congress.<ref>Villafania, Alexander. "Youth conference tackles wider IT applications." ''Inquirer.net''. [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=88214]</ref> It is hosted by [http://ittc.up.edu.ph/ UP ITTC] and UP SITF in cooperation with [http://psite.org.ph/ PSITE], [http://csp.org.ph/ CSP], and the UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps.

==History==
Y4iT’s precursor, the 2003 National IT Student Congress held on September 2 and 3 at the University Theater in [[UP Diliman]], [[Quezon City]], attracted at least 5,000 participants from all over the nation. Attendance has been steadily increasing, benefiting from an increasing number of lectures.
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! Year
! Date
! Venue
! Participants{{citation}}
|-
| 2004
| Sept. 5-6
| University Theater, UP Diliman, Quezon City
| 5,500
|-
| 2005
| Sept. 15-17
| University Theater, UP Diliman, Quezon City
| 7,500
|-
| 2006
| Sept. 13-15
| University Theater, UP Film Institute, & UP Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, Quezon City
| 12,500
|-
| 2007
| Sept. 12-14
| SM North EDSA (Cinema 9-12), Quezon City
| 16,000
|}

===Y4iT 2008===

Y4iT 2008 will be held in [[UP Diliman]] in [[Quezon City]] from [[September 2]] to [[September 5]], [[2008]] at the University Theater and UP Film Institute (Cine Adarna) for the Main Event, and UP Ang Bahay ng Alumni for the Sponsors Exhibit. As many as 17,500 delegates (senior high school and college students, IT professionals, members of the academe, and IT enthusiasts) are expected to attend the four-day event nationwide.

This year's event will focus on the following topics:
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* Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology
* Data Mining
* Combating Piracy
* IT Entrepreneurship
* eLearning 2.0
* Software as a Service
* Data Privacy: Whose Data Is It?
* Discourse of Social Media
* Robotics Toys
* Web Marketing
* NetBeans
* CGI Film Animation
* Social Networking
* Photoblogging
* Web 2.0 in Digital Libraries
* Careers in Embedded Systems
* Blu-Ray Technology
* Video On Demand
* Outsourcing and Offshoring
* IT and the Human Genome Project
* News Portals: The New Information Channel
* Best Practices in Software Development
* Next Generation Game Development
* Robotics in Manufacturing
* IT in Medicine
* Marketing & Management for the Next Generation
* IT Forensics
* Ruby on Rails & The Morph Application Platform
* Web 2.0 in Japan
* PhilNITS as a National IT Standard
* Game Development in the Philippines
* What Employers Look for in IT Graduates
* Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence
* Geographic Information Systems
* ePortfolios
* Mobile Animation
* Digital Media & Distribution Channels
* IT Certifications
* Semantic Web
* Global Opportunities for IT Businesses
* Programming in Symbian
* Next Generation Video
* Online Shopping
* Social Software Innovation
* Digital Archiving
* eBook Publishing
* Blogging
* Digital Animation Industry
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==Reference==
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==See also==
* [[UP Diliman]]
* [[UP Department of Computer Science]]
* [[Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators]]
* [[University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center]]

==External links==
* [http://ittc.up.edu.ph/y4it09.html Y4iT 2009 Website-Teaser]
* [http://y4it.up.edu.ph Y4iT Official Website]
* [http://profiles.friendster.com/y4it Y4iT Friendster Account]
* [http://twitter.com/y4it Y4iT Twitter Account]
* [http://ittc.up.edu.ph UP Information Technology Training Center]
* [http://engg.upd.edu.ph/cs UP College of Engineering - Department of Computer Science]