International Conference on Culture, Communication and Multimedia Technology 2014 (ICON C-COMET’14)

 Tuesday April 29 – Thursday May 1, International Conference on Culture, Communication and Multimedia Technology 2014 (ICON C-COMET’14) was held at Central Building of School of Multimedia and Communication, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). This international conference was held in cooperation between UUM and UAD. Beside the lecturers and students of both universities, delegations of University of Saint Anthony, Philippines, and participants from Thailand also joined the conference. From UAD, there were 22 delegations consisting of 9 lecturers, 7 students of Informatics Engineering, 6 students of Information system, and 8 students of Communication Sciences Study Program.

After the opening ceremony, the conference and multimedia competition were held. The multimedia competition  which was divided into two categories (Short Movie and TV Award) was participated by students of 4 countries. From 19 videos reviewed, the judges decided “Kampung Dolanan” by Muhammad Al Mahdi, a student of Informatics Engineering UAD as the Champion. The runner up was a video of a UUM student entitled “Salah Sangka” and the second runner up was “Tarian Topeng Klasik” by Riyanto, etc., from Information System UAD. For TV Award Category, the champion was from University of Saint Anthony, the runner up was from UUM, and the second runner up was from UAD.