The Eighth Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research on Applied Computing (URC 2016) aims to provide a forum for undergraduate students to present their ideas and interact with other young researchers from educational institutions in the UAE, other GCC countries, and the rest of the Arab world, as well as expert faculty and leaders from the IT industry. So, if you are an undergraduate student (in UAE, GCC counrties, other Arab countries) working on a final year project or doing research in any computing field, you are encouraged to submit an abstract for a live demo, lightning talk, or poster presentation. There are three types of submissions (for live demo, lightning talk or oral presentation, and poster presentation), and all submissions will be reviewed by expert faculty and feedback will be provided to all submissions.

Download the call for research project abstracts in PDF format.

Abstracts for lightning presentations, live demos, or poster presentations should report on a novel application (live demo) or research project work (for lightning presentation or poster presentation) done by undergraduate students, and the first author should be an undergraduate student. Your research project can be in progress at this point but results should be available and presented at the conference. URC2016 welcomes three types of submissions:

• 1. Live demos: for students who are interested in presenting a live demo of an application/system/tool they have fully developed; they will be presented in front of conference participants and a judging panel.
• 2. Lightning presentations: students will be given 5 to 7 minutes to present their research projects in front of conference participants and a judging panel.
• 3. Poster presentations: students will present their research projects in a poster format that will be displayed at the conference and presented by students during special periods of time during the conference. A panel of judges will be evaluating poster presentations.