PENANG, 23 January 2014 - Four final year students from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) School of Computer Sciences have won the first prize in the 2014 Hilti IT Innovation Competition held in Switzerland last week.

The winning team comprised of Soh Sin Siang, Oh Ying San, Wong Wan Ping and Jonathan Ng Zhen Yuan submitted their idea presentation on “Emotion intelligence. Communication. Link-up the employees” (Ec-Link), beating 10 other teams from Switzerland, Netherlands, Korea, Austria, Liechtenstein, USA, Germany, Indonesia and Malaysia. Ec-Link is an innovative idea that enables one’s emotion to be identified during teleconferencing.

For example, in a teleconferencing meeting, the presenter/speaker can identify whether a particular person in the meeting is paying attention or not, or whether they are happy or sad during the course of the meeting even though they are at different locations.

With the theme ‘Communication and Collaboration. Anytime. Anywhere.’, this competition is held to gather the best ideas on how to create better communication and collaboration between Hilti and its customers as well as among Hilti employees, compile information for easy access/retrieval, prepare instruction manual, and create a team of highly creative individuals with high productivity that works well together.

Hilti is a company providing cutting-edge technology to the global construction industry. Hilti employees are in direct contact with customers on construction sites and provide solutions for complex construction-related problems.

This competition is opened to university students of all levels worldwide including the undergraduates, Masters, and Ph.D students.

For emerging first place, the USM team was awarded a once-in-a-lifetime trip including a five-night stay at one of Hilti’s European or American IT city where they will have the opportunity to meet Hilti members, and also to get to know Hilti and its strategic partners better. - Translation: Tan Ewe Hoe/Text: Nor Rafizah Md Zain/Photo: Students’ contribution

GEORGE TOWN: A university researcher has developed a computer tool that can help prevent cybercrimes and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Dr Aman Jantan, a senior lecturer at the School of Computer Sciences of Universiti Sains Malaysia, has developed the cybercrime investigation tool called the Forensic Analysis and Discovery System (FADS).

Dr Aman said the system could ease digital network forensic investigations while reducing the amount of space needed to store relevant records.

Dr. Aman Jantan from Security Research Group have won the Silver Medal for the invention/ innovation of Forensic Analysis and Discovery System (FADS) at Malaysia Technology Expo 2012, Kuala Lumpur from 16-18 February 2012.

Developers and researchers from Security and Forensic Research Group (SFRG), led by Assoc. Prof. Aman Jantan
has won one out of three gold medal for Universiti Sains Malaysia in Malaysia Technology Expo 2013 at PWTC, Kuala Lumpur.
Dr. Aman Jantan, an Assoiate Professor at School of Computer Sciences USM has introduced EMFORCI - Email Forensic Tool
for Cyber Investigation at the exhibition to facilitate cyber-crime investigator as well as cyber forensic agent in
investigating cyber-crime cases involving emails such as fraud, scam, phishing, pornography, malware distribution, etc.
The system is enhanced with the abilities to perform intelligent analysis on the gathered emails, and develop the needed
case's profiles such as timeline and correlations or relevancies of email communications.
Assoc. Prof. Aman Jantan also said that EMFORCI is equipped with Password Extractor to extract password from an
email server in case an agent failed to get the needed password from suspected criminal.

This is the third product that has been introduced by Assoc. Prof. Aman Jantan since the successful of
Malware Analysis and Prediction System (MAPS) which secure the Gold Medal in International Invention,
Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX) 2012 and Forensic Analysis and Discovery System (FADS) in Malaysia Technology Expo 2012.