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A consortium of few
companies including RDI
has won the tender of
Egyptian E-Learning
University (EELU)
(the first e-University
in Egypt) for
implementing 66
e-courses of the
university college in
various specializations.
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Led
by Mohamed Attia, RDI
team has successfully
undertaken the local
organization part of the
2nd International
Conference on Arabic
Language Resources &
Tools held in
Grand Hyatt hotel in
Cairo from Apr. 21st to
Apr. 23rd as the biggest
2009 event devoted to
Arabic Human Language
Technologies. With the
help of the other 14
partners in the
Euro-Mediterranean
consortium conducting
the
MEDAR project , this
international conference
and its pre- conference
tutorials made a great
success for this active
field of R&D.
The most important
players, the most
prominent figures, as
well as researchers and
students from all over
the world have attended
and participated with
their state-of-the-art
works. Here you may read
both the
Arabic press coverage as well as the
English press coverage
of the event.
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RDI and the
World Islamic Call
Society in
coordination with the College of Islamic Call
in Libya have made an
agreement for
accrediting RDI's
technology for the
interactive self
learning of Tajweed;
Hafss© (lab.
version) as a basic
means of teaching the
curriculum of
Interactive Tajweed of
Holy Qur'an starting
from the next academic
year 2008/2009.
Annual courses using
Hafss© in this
regard will be held by
the society inside Libya
and all over Africa to
train students and
teachers of Tajweed on
this technology.
Moreover, both sides are
negotiating the enabling
of the e-publishing of
the College's magazine
via RDI technology of
Arabic
e-book.
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Selected from 45 submitted project proposals to the
Information Technology
Industry Development Agency ITIDA's
Information Technology Academia
Collaboration ITAC fund, RDI's
Virtual Tutor project has been granted the
(Product Development Programme) PDP fund of 1 million EGP over 18 months..
The project aims to revolve the education via producing an advanced authoring
and browsing kit that can be deployed by any entity interested in developing
cultural and/or educational oriented content enriched by RDI’s speech
recognition, text-to-speech, virtual talking face simulator, full text-search,
online dictionaries, ..., and other RDI tools that together render e-learning
into an exciting live interactive experience.
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During the interval from mid. Dec. 2007 to mid. Feb. 2008, RDI's bright
phonologist "Ahmed Ragheb" is lecturing in 3 weekly episodes about the formal
rules of holy Qur'an reading (Ahkam Al-Tajweed) assisted with RDI's software
speech technology Hafss in
Al-Hekma satellite TV channel
broadcasting on Nile Sat. at a frequency of 10853
MHz with horizontal polarization and symbol rate 27500 at a FEC of 3/4 .
The 3 weekly episodes are broadcast from 8:30 pm to 9:15 pm GMT on
Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. They can be directly watched via TV and via the
web page http://www.Way2Allah.com/modules.php?name=live as well.
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RDI's R&D manager; Ibrahim Sobh , and
Hafss©'s product manager; Yasir Fayez
have officially represented the company at officially receiving the
World Summit Award contest (WSA) 2007 1st prize of e-Content/e-Learning track for RDI's interactive Tajweed learning product;
Hafss©.
The official public announcement and celebration of the winners have taken place at the WSA 2007 Gala on November 5, 2007 at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice-Italy.
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On Sept. 15th,
2007, RDI's
Hafss©
technology for
the interactive
learning of
spoken language
applied on the
Tajweed of the
hloy Qur'an has
been declared
first in the
2007
World Summit
Award contest
for best
e-content/e-Learning
track where
about 850 other
candidates from
160 countries
had
participated.
See news of
Hafss©
winning
the World Summit
Award in
paper press
&
electronic
press.
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Presenting a new paper on one of RDI's innovations in Arabic OCR, RDI 's Consultant of Human Language Technologies "Mohamed Attia"
has given an oral session on Aug. 28th, 2007 in the Vienna University of Technology-Austria that hosted The 12th Int'l Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP07)
http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/caip07/index.php.
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RDI has been awarded the first 2006 prize of Suzan Mubarak's Children Arts contest
www.SMubarakPrize.gov.eg/index.htm in the professional enterprizes track of Programming & Internet for its
Flash®-based software tutorial on Arabic Syntax.
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In cooperation with RDI;
the Riyadh Schools in KSA
www.RiyadhSchools.edu.SA
is running an empirical
study to sense the
impact of applying RDI's
technology
Hafss© on
the learners of Tajweed.
Due to the sincere
efforts expended by RDI
in this field research,
as well as the attested
positive impact of this
technology on learning
the Tajweed of Qur'an;
Riyadh Schools has
awarded RDI its
e-Learning certificate
of honors.
Moreover, both sides are
negotiating the about
accrediting
Hafss©
within Riyadh Schools'
standard curricula
starting from the next
semester.
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RDI has been awarded the
e-Content first prize
http://www.econtentaward.org.eg/winners.html in the
e-Learning track from the Egyptian IT
Industry Development Agency ITIDA, for RDI's new technology for
the self learning of Tajweed; Hafss©.
Moreover, RDI has been
awarded e-Content
certificate of honors in the e-Learning track from ITIDA, for RDI's educational
e-Learning
library.
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RDI's Arabic language technologies specialists; Mohamed Attia and Ahmad Ragheb
are invited as guest
speakers in the Symposium on Information
Technology and Arabic &
Jurisprudent Sciences held in the
College of Computer and Information Sciences
of the University of Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Sa’ud-Riyadh-KSA on Mar. 6th and 7th, 2007.
Photo1,
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While Dr. Attia is going to lecture on RDI's automatic Arabic phonetic transcription
ArabDiac(R)
, Mr. Ragheb will lecture on RDI's novel technology for Tajweed self learning;
Hafss(R) .
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Represented by its CEO;
Prof. Mohsen A. A.
Rashwan, RDI has
participated in the 2006
version of
Information Society
Technologies (IST
2006) conference;
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm.
This mega event is held
in Helsinki – Finland
during the period 21-23
November 2006, under the
auspices of the European
Commission.
The
participation of RDI
comes through the
business delegation
selected by the MCIT to
represent Egypt in this
event. This delegation
aims primarily to build
firm Research &
Technological
Development networks
with European partners,
that enables capable
Egyptian CIT companies
to be involved in EU R&D
programs in the year
2007 and beyond. Invitation..
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After a first round
of investment by Saudi
investors in 2002/2003,
RDI has successfully
completed in 2005/2006 a
second round of
investment with the
Technologies Development
Fund (TDF) of the
Egyptian MCIT who
invested about 1 million
USD buying RDI corporate
stocks. Currently, RDI
is preparing for a third
round offering shares of
its stocks to serious
investors.
More..
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Offices: After launching
new office in Abu Dhabi-UAE
during last Feb. 2004,
RDI has launched its
office in Reyadh-KSA in
mid. 2006.
For the detailed RDI
contact info. and
offices; see the page of
RDI-Contacts
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RDI has been selected to
be an Alcatel partner
for developing mobile
applications and
services in Egypt
through the newly
inaugurated Alcatel
Cairo Content
Development Centre (ACCDC).
More..
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On Aug. 2005, RDI has
been awarded the
e-Content Award
www.econtentaward.org.eg
second prize in the
E-Science track from the
Egyptian IT Industry
Development Agency, for
its 'Virtual Labs'
application (An
application enclosing
about 110 simulations
and animations, with a
pleasant intro
simulating the class
environment).
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Projects: RDI with ELDA
www.ELDA.fr, CST
www.CST.dk, and
other partners from 10
ME and EU countries have
successfully finalized
the 30-month EU funded
NEMLAR project on
Arabic Human Language
Engineering and
Technologies. An int'l
NEMLAR conference on
Arabic Human Language
Engineering and
Technologies had also
successfully taken place
on Sept. 22nd & 23rd,
2004 in Egypt-Cairo
where RDI was the local
organizer …
For more info on the
NEMLAR project and
conference, visit
www.NEMLAR.org and
also see
our web page on NEMLAR.
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