Lattakia-Sana
The Lattakia branch team in the Syrian Informatics Society achieved first place in the "Ada Lovelace Programming" competition for artificial intelligence, ahead of the teams of the United States of America, Britain, India, Romania and Kazakhstan.
Eng. Maryam Jawdat Fayyad, head of the Lattakia branch of the Syrian Scientific Society for Informatics and the supervisor of the competition, said in a statement to the SANA reporter that this competition is one of the most important global competitions in which judges and supervisors from universities such as Cambridge, Imperial College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) participate in the admission, qualification and arbitration process, namely The culmination of a phase of work that lasted nearly two years since the launch of the club within our branch, which included many workshops and courses for children and adolescents and many artificial intelligence technologies.
Fayyad indicated that the ideas presented by the association's team are distinguished due to the life and societal concerns it bears concerning our local environment, and it shares with the rest of the environments in it, such as the issue of empowering women and enhancing their role in society in addition to the issue of fires and ways to use artificial intelligence technologies in anticipating their occurrence and reducing their effects and the most important ways to evacuate the area of disaster and deal. With addiction, artificial intelligence techniques are used to detect the addict, determine the proportion in his body, and communicate with specialists to control the subject and reduce it.
Fayyad stressed that the result obtained by the team is the motivation and inspiration to continue our work that we started in since the launch of the idea of scientific clubs by focusing on the first age group, children and adolescents, considering their establishment of the most advanced sciences of the age is the key to the development of our society and its integration within the scientifically and technically advanced societies.
Trainer Maram Jouria said that he is participating in the competition that celebrates the first computer programmer in history, "Ada Lovelace," and bears her name, 3 teams consisting of 13 young men and women between the ages of 12 and 18 years and 4 supervisors who are competing with 23 teams from different countries of the world, including Romania, Italy and Britain. And others, noting the high-level performance and the tremendous efforts made by the teams, and the participation culminated in the Association's team winning first place.
Team member Ayham Dalilah talked about the team project, which focuses on empowering women in societies that suffer from underdevelopment and ignorance due to customs and traditions, and helping them to pursue their studies through a distance learning platform that allows its users to learn in an effective and comfortable way by choosing the appropriate learning method and customizing curricula that take into account their levels.
Team member Jad Fadel said that they have designed an AI system that identifies a person's addiction rate and provides communication with psychiatrists or specific treatment centers.
Team member Jaafar Ghayad Darwish said that I, as a 17-year-old, love programming very much, and I found in the Syrian Informatics Association a place where I achieve my ambitions. I conducted a course in artificial intelligence and passed the first level, adding that participating in the global competition “Young People in Artificial Intelligence” is in itself a unique experience. Where as a team.
It is noteworthy that "Ada Lovelace" is the first female computer programmer in history, and in her honor, the 2020 competition was named after her. She is an English writer and mathematician.
Noureddine Younes
