The College of Computers in Al-Qunfudha (Girls Section) organized the First Best Graduation Project Competition for 2018 on Wednesday, 2^nd Shaaban 1439H. This was in the presence of Dr. Amany bint Hamad bin Mansour Al-Sho’aiby, Vice Dean of the College, in addition to a number of the College’s affiliates, staff members and students.

The competition witnessed the participation of 10 distinctive and innovative graduation projects. Such projects witnessed a unique competition in the various IT domains, which reflected their significance in light of the world's technological progress. This was as the competition aimed to encourage scientific and applied research that helped students of the Computers College in Al-Qunfudha build the knowledge-based society. It also encouraged their innovation and identified projects of innovative value to be turned into applied and practical projects.

In this context, the first prize was awarded to Mariam Muhammad Darwish Al-Zubaidy, Hanan Hussein Muhammad Al-Zubaidy, Amena Muhammad Abdullah Al-Sharedy, Mariam Ali Salem Al-Zubaidy, as well as Saleha Ahmad Al-Omary from the Department of Computer Sciences. The winning project was entitled, “Building a Large Corpus for Smartphone Users Using Extended App Tracker” and supervised by Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Zubaidy. On the other hand, the second prize was awarded to Bushra Muhammad Ba-Mahdy, Fatima Yusuf Al-Faquih, Al-Jawhara Al-Hussein Al-Jaafary, Amena Hussein Al-Jaafary, as well as Maha Ahmad Mahfoudh from the Department of Computer Sciences. The winning project was entitled, “Borrowed via Barcode” and supervised by Prof. Serene Al-Hady As-Sayed.   

During the Activities Concluding Ceremony, the first and second winners were handed their certificates. It is worth mentioning that the ceremony was held on Tuesday, 8th Shaaban 1439H at the premises of Al-Qunfudha Computer Sciences College (Girls Section). It also was attended by Dr. Amany Al-Sho’aiby, in addition to a number of affiliates, staff members who included supervisors of the competition and students.  

On this occasion, Dr. Amany Al-Sho’aiby said in her speech, “It is a great competition and distinctive graduation project choices. This achieves the objective for which the competition has been designed, namely to motivate and encourage students to innovate and design. In this regard, thanks should be extended to our participating students. Moreover, great thanks should be extended to Professors/ Reem Al-Harby and Al-Jawhara Al-Zahrany for their adoption of such idea and work to produce it in such unique form. They also should be thanked for laying the keystone for such distinctive scientific event at the Computers College in Al-Qunfudha. Please accept my best wishes of more distinctiveness, innovation and brilliance!”

Within the same framework, Dr. Hanan Al-Ghamdy, Assistant Head of the Computer Sciences Department, stated in her speech, “I am very happy with such effective initiatives that greatly contribute to students’ effort support and scientific abilities development. It is noteworthy that they create a competitive scientific environment that stimulates innovation in the domain of information technology. This is an embodiment of the Wise Leadership’s vision for the benefit of the homeland and the citizen. In other words, such vision aims to provide students with the opportunity to integrate everything they have learned during their years of study and to discover creative talents and ideas that contribute to the development of new solutions to suit the needs of the community and the labor market and keep up with the current development of technology. I wish for such initiative to start wide-ranged horizons that resonate through productive software companies.”

In turn, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Zubaidy, Head of the Scientific Research Unit, explained his message saying, “Today, and as we are on the verge of an academic year’s end, fruits of hard work are being reaped. Besides, in appreciation and honor of every exerted effort, we have to thank Allah for our generous government, supportive university and uniquely ambitious college.

In this regard, thanks should be extended to the College’s administration, represented by its dean and affiliates, for its unlimited support. Thanks also should be given to the committee members for their interaction and valuable notes, to the program coordinators for the perfect competition production, to all competitors for the harvest of a whole year of work, and to students for exerting extraordinary effort during their work with me all through the past months to deliver a project of the highest possible quality; greetings from the heart to all! To conclude, I would like to tell everyone to do more and never stop. This is because the soil of this homeland deserves our souls, bodies, ideas, hard work and nonstop working arms; our country has been free since creation and will fly up in the sky. Therefore, make glory and write history among all these nations; our limits and aspirations are the sky."

Dr. Al-Zubaidy continued through his speech by demonstrating the first-prize awarded application. He said, “As technologies develop, companies compete to attract consumers in several ways. One way is the production of modern smart phones with equal features to several computers. It should be noted that the more users and volumes of data stored within such devices increase, the more at risk becomes the privacy of individuals. This means that there must be techniques and ideas to help increase security and maintain data confidentiality as much as possible. Thus, and apart from traditionalism, we have worked together for a project that provides students with various experiences in a variety of very modern and significant domains. In other words, we sought to build a large database using an application named, Extended App Tracker.”

He added, “Such application is based on collecting specific data of Android systems users according to sophisticated privacy and confidentiality. This is in order to collect an enormous number of data (i.e. at least 10 million records), which could later become a reference for a lot of research in several domains such as security, especially continuous reliability and detection of infiltration attacks. Moreover, such records can be used in the domains of huge data volumes and marketing.”  

To conclude, it should be noted that the first version of such competition ended successfully, thanks to Allah. This is a stimulant to keep on holding it in the coming years in order to encourage innovation and scientific research.

Prof. Reem Al-Harby/ Prof. Al-Jawhara Al-Zahrany