Techie World - Vol 1 - Nov 2017

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News
• APU Awarded the Premier Digital Tech
University Status
• We Attained Asia Pacific Regional Award from
CompTIA!
• Industry Visit: Aims Data Center Malaysia
• Attacks on Smart Card Readers with Biometric
Functionalities Training
• Talk on "Recent Security Challenges" by KPMG
• F-Secure Trophy back to APU!
• Boot camp for ISACA CSX FUNDAMENTAL
CERTIFICATION
• The Third Summit of Sciences & Technology
Development in Islamic Countries
• QR IT Seek 2017 - Have fun while competing!
• APU Signs MoA to Promote the Learning and
the Adoption of Industry 4.0 Related
Technologies
• FAVORIOT and APU Signs MoA to Build Next
Generation-IoT
• APU collaborate with Semtech Corporation in
the research of LoRa technology
• APU takes pride in hosting the ASEAN Data
Science Explorers- National Finals in Malaysia
2017
• APU Participation at NICE Expo
• Programming Cafe
• APU Data Science Week 2017
Articles
• Improving Marathon Event Operational
Efficiency with Big Data and Analytics
• Gateway to Industry – Project Driven
Collaborations
• Social Media Security Issues
Competition Summary
Alumni
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E d i t o r i a l B o a r d
Editorial Team
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Geetha Kanaparan
Supriya Singh
Dr. Imran Medi
Contributors
Amad Arshad
Chong Mien May
Dr. Selvakumar Samuel
Dr. Maryam Shahpasand
Mary Ting
Mohamad Firdaus Che Abd Rani
Nor Azlina Abdul Rahman
Vinothini Kasinathan
Zailan Arabee Abdul Salam
Layout & Design
Mohamad Firdaus Che Abd Rani
Suggestions / Enquiries
techieworld@apu.edu.my
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