Noyan Tapan News Agency
Sept 19 2005

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “CSIT 2005” OPENS IN YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The information technologies
sphere of Armenia has considerable potential for development. Fadei
Sargsian, President of the RA National Academy of Sciences (NAS),
stated this on September 19 at the opening ceremony of the 5th
international conference “CSIT 2005” on computer science and
international technologies. He espressed a hope that the conference
to be held every second year will help disseminate knowledge,
especially among young people. According to F. Sargsian, Armenia has
in recent years achieved a remarkable success in the spheres of
information technologies and computer science – a high-efficiency
system based on the Armcluster computing system in order to make
scientific calculations has been created. Issues related to it will
be discussed by the conference participants at a working seminar.

According to Yuri Shukurian, Director of the RA NAS Institute of
Informatics and Automatization Problems, the conference enables not
only to exchange opinions but also to present the work carried out in
the indicated sphere in Armenia. According to him, the conference has
aroused great interest among the participants – good cooperation has
already been established with French scientists.

In the opinion of Artak Sahradian, RA Deputy Minister of Education
and Science, the conference represents yet another step in the
direction of developing the sphere of international technologies (IT)
and setting up scientific institutions.

The 5-day conference has been organized by the RA NAS Institute of
Informatics and Automatization Problems with the assisitance of the
International Scientific and Technical Center, the National Fund of
Science and Advanced Technologies, the Enterprises Incubator Fund, as
well as the companies Arminco, Unicomp and Anelik. Experts from
Armenia, the US, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, France, India and Iran
will make 135 reports at the conference.