Wednesday, March 26, 2008

IVIA, universities to deepen cooperation

On March 4, 2008, Prof. Dirk Michael Boehe, coordinator for the Master’s Program in Businesss Administration at the University of Fortaleza and Prof. Hans-Peter Benedikt, vice-president of the University of Applied Science in Eberswalde (Germany) visited IVIA.

The University of Applied Science in Eberswalde (Germany) is the greenest University in Brandenburg (Germany). This institution has a very distinctive profile dedicated to sustainable economic activity. The cooperation between the disciplines oriented towards rural areas and regional and international partners in research and applications is unique nationally. One of their representative is Prof. Hans-Peter Benedikt. His specialization is Human Resource and Entrepreneurship. He is also responsible for arrangements of internships.

Due to the cooperation between IVIA and these universities, Nicole Loter will be an intern at IVIA for 3 months.

Friday, March 14, 2008

23rd. Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

On March 16, 2008, one of the most important symposiums in Applied Computing, the 23rd. Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, will be coming to Fortaleza. This symposium will be hosted by the University of Fortaleza (Unifor) and Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and sponsored by IVIA, CNPq and FUNCAP.

These event will be held at the Vila Galé Hotel in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Several topics about software engineering, web technologies, mobility, database and other excellent subjects will be discussed.

If you would like to know further details about this event, just visit

http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008/

All the IVIA team will be cheering for the success of this event. In addition to the participation of highly respected international researchers, some local researchers, will represent the high value of the intellectual capital of the Ceará state. Those are Prof. Ronaldo Menezes (Florida Institute of Technology) and the researchers from UNIFOR (Ângelo Brayner, Nabor Mendonça and Andréia Rodrigues) and from UFC (Rossana Andrade and Javam Machado).
 
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