College of Information Technology - (State)
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Graduates of the CIT are employed in government and industry positions serving the IT needs of the nation and participating in the advancement of information technology worldwide. The CIT students have won numerous national and regional competitions and have received commendations from leaders of the IT industry worldwide. Many of the students are involved in undergraduate scientific research, and have published articles in major research publication conferences and journals. The CIT faculty and students are engaged in cutting-edge applied research, developing solutions and products that serve the needs of society.
Research areas include grid/could computing, nano technology, parallel computer architecture, telematics, distributed and mobile network systems, biometrics, software systems development and testing, intelligent computing, vision systems, e-learning, business intelligence and information systems. The CIT was one of only ten institutions worldwide in 2006 to win a competitive research grant from IBM’S Shared University Research Program to develop applications on the CELL Broadband Engine.
In 2008, the CIT was one of 8 institutions worldwide (and only one outside of North America) to win a competitive research grant from Microsoft to build friendly robots. IBM selected CIT faculty as the first recipients in the Middle-East of the IBM Faculty Research Award. The CIT founded the Middle-East’s largest and most prestigious IT Research Conference, International Conference on Innovations in IT, that has become a staple for IT research innovation, receiving worldwide attention.
Facilities
The CIT has embarked on one of the most ambitious projects in the world to deliver education in the laboratory on a scale not seen before, both in breadth and depth. To do that, it has acquired over 20 of the most cutting edge laboratories in the world. It has designed its laboratories to maximize student learning, eliminating the need for traditional classrooms altogether for teaching IT all teaching can be done in the laboratory. The CIT laboratories include an 8.3 T-Flop super grid computer that is the fastest in the region. The laboratories also include the very latest in interactive humanoid technology enabling students to perform experiments in speech recognition, vision and motion capture. Six laboratories dedicated to IT security provide the students hands-on experience in security systems ranging from intrusion detection to biometrics. Five laboratories dedicated to the field of networking provide the students the opportunity to learn wireless networks, VOIP and other exciting new concepts in networking.
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