4. 1. World`s Most Influential Figure in Open Source

Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 1 December 2009 - February 2010
University of Surabaya
Left to right: Dr. Sujoko Efferin,
Ratna Widjaja, Dr. Kurt Meredith,
Prof. Wibisono Hardjopranoto,
Adi Tedjakusuma and Fidelis
Andono
Dr. Stallman with Ubaya Informatics
Engineering Department Lecturers
World’s Most Influential Figure
in Open Source Software
Visited Ubaya
Dr. Kurt Meredith is giving UNI
book to Prof. Wibisono
Dr. Stallman is giving his lecture
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aving the opportunity to invite and meet the world’s most
influential figure will surely become an unforgettable
and most exciting moment for everyone. For Ubaya
Informatics Engineering Department, 9 November 2009
has been remembered as one of the most unforgettable
and exciting days because on that day it has the opportunity to invite
Dr. Richard Stallman, known as the world’s most influential figure in
open source software. Many people even respect him as Bill Gates (i.e.
the founder of Microsoft who is the second richest man in the world in
2008) or father of open source software. Biographically, Dr. Stallman
is the founder of GNU Operating System (often referred as Linux)
and Free Software Movement. He pioneered the concept of copyleft
and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU
General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating
for free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents
and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws.
In Ubaya, he delivered a “Copyright Vs Community; In the Age of
Computer Networks Seminar”. In front of 200 audiences whom were
Ubaya students, lecturers and computer practitioners, he started the
seminar by sharing his reason of establishing GNU Operating System
(GNU OS). “25 years ago, I was quite apprehensive considering that
we have entered the information age era but the freedom for computer
users to control their own computing activities is still limited. Considering
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that, I developed GNU OS in 1985 aims to enable community to run,
modify computer programs and then share or distribute the programs
to other users.”
Having attractive and interactive presentation style, Dr. Stallman
arouse audiences’ curiosity by asking, “Audiences, I have good and bad
news concerning free software movement. Which one do you want me
to tell you first, the good or the bad one?” Some spontaneously chose
good and some chose bad. “Well, I prefer to tell the bad news first.
The bad news is the copyright problem that limits too many activities
of media users and the long duration of copyright restrictions still exists.
This hinders us to download songs, papers for our works, and share
computer programs for free. Then, the good news is free software
movement to reduce the power of copyright is growing. Many famous
artists, authors and computer program developers who are now aware
to free software give their fully support to this movement,” described
Dr. Stallman.
After 2.5 hours that seemed to be too short for audiences, Dr.
Stallman concluded the seminar by reminding the audience to always
respect the copyright law and other people works. “Hacking or cracking
should be seen as a way of learning and enhancing your creativity, not
by any means to damage or harm other people’s program. All in all, I
am looking forward to cooperating with Indonesian government aims
to promote free software movement in Indonesia,” he ended.
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ADI TEDJAKUSUMA
NANI AMBARSARI
RYZA CAHAYA
DINA FERDIANA
Director
Assistant Coordinator for International Exchange
OLLY WICAKSONO
Assistant Coordinator for Grant & Scholarship
Assistant Coordinator for Administration & Services
International Exchange Liaison
NURUL PUSPITANINGRUM
International Village Coordinator
University of Northern Iowa, USA is a New Ubaya’s Partner
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n this highly competitive era, a fine
institution is an institution that does
not only able to commit in achieving
its objectives by stating them in the
Vision and Mission (V&M) but also able
to accomplish that objectives. Stating the
objectives in V&M is vital because it provides
a clear guidance for institution. Yet, stating the
objectives is not enough unless the institution
is able to achieve the objectives. Considering
this, Ubaya is proud to be recognized as fine
institution because the university is not only
able to state its objective of broadening its
international network in Ubaya mission but
it is also capable of consistently carrying out
activities to achieve that objective. The MoU
signing with University of Northern Iowa (UNI),
USA proves that remarkable recognition.
On 15 September 2009, Ubaya and
UNI have agreed to sign the general MoU
aims to promote mutual cooperation in the
area of education and research. The MoU
was signed by Prof. Wibisono Hardjopranoto
(Ubaya Rector) and Dr. Kurt Meredith (UNI
Assistant Provost for International Programs).
As the starting point of cooperation between
2 institutions, the general MoU covers various
aspects of:
1. Encouraging academic exchange and
cooperation between the universities.
2. Joint research activities in areas of mutual
interest.
3. Exchange of publications and teaching
materials
4. Developing joint dual degree programs at
multiple levels.
The MoU signing was witnessed by Dr.
Sujoko Efferin (Ubaya Faculty of Business and
Economics Dean), Ratna Widjaja (Aminef
Surabaya Manager), Adi Tedjakusuma (Ubaya
Office of International Affairs Director),
and Fidelis Andono (Faculty of Business
and Economics International Program
Coordinator). In his welcoming remarks,
Prof. Wibisono Hardopranoto noted, “I am
pleased to welcome University of Northern
Iowa, USA as our new partner. University is
now global and it must produce students or
researchers with the necessary skills to operate
not only nationally, but also on the world
stage. I am sure that partnering with University
of Northern Iowa will enable Ubaya to
consistently produce that quality students and
researchers.”
Situated in Cedar Falls, Iowa, University of
Northern Iowa is a state-supported university
with student population of 13,000 that offers
more than 120 majors across the colleges
of Business Administration, Education,
Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences,
and Social and Behavioral sciences, and
graduate college. It has consistently been
named as one of the “Best in the Midwest”
in the Princeton Review Best 351 College
Rankings guide as well as ranked second in
Midwest top public comprehensive universities
by U.S. News and World Report for twelve
consecutive years. UNI’s accounting program
has consistently been ranked in the top 10
universities in the nation for the pass rate of
first-time candidates on the CPA Exam.
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Ubaya and Charles
Darwin University
Australia Plan to Explore
4 Research Areas
Prof. Hitoshi
Sakakibara &
Prof. Takatoshi Kiba
with Ubaya Faculty
of Biotechnology
students
Biotechnology and Human Welfare
Seminar by Japanese Professors
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Prof. Hitoshi Sakakibara is presenting his thought
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n recent days, Genetically Modified
Organisms (GMOs) are making news
nearly every day and issues surrounding
their safety are a source of ongoing
bioethics debates in the food and
biotechnology industry. According to WHO,
GMOs refer to organisms in which the genetic
material (DNA) has been altered in a way that
does not occur naturally. As the new genetic
engineering technique, GMOs are suspected
to produce negative aspects to human welfare.
Industrialization of agriculture, pushing out
the small farmers in favor of mass production
of crops and the suffer of less developed
countries’ exports due to the use of biotech
sweeteners instead of sugarcane products
which are usually exported by less developed
countries are few suspected GMOs’ negative
aspects to human welfare.
Feel the necessity of understanding the
GMOs issue to human welfare, on 15 October
2009, Ubaya Faculty of Biotechnology
welcomed 2 Japanese biotechnology scholars
from RIKEN Plant Science Center, namely
Prof. Hitoshi Sakakibara and Prof. Takatoshi
Kiba to deliver “Biotechnology and Human
Welfare Seminar”. RIKEN Plant Science
Center is one of the world’s leading plant
science centers through its international
contributions and collaborations with various
universities, institutions and industry, which
promotes basic research in photosynthesis
function, growth regulation and plant matter
production to elucidate the physiology of
plant productivity.
In front of seminar participants whom
mostly first year Ubaya Faculty of Biotechnology
students, Prof. Sakakibara started the seminar
with the basic concept of biotechnology. He
explained that even though biotechnology
is very old, but it also forms a state of art
technology. Mainstream biotechnology by
the middle of 20th century was more involve
in the discovery and the utilization of useful
organism for human, but it was not enough
for a sustainable human welfare. Right now,
the DNA recombination is one of the possible
solutions to solve a lot of problems.
After Prof. Sakakibara’s presentation,
Prof. Kiba continued the second session by
exploring the application of biotechnology
particularly GMOs. “For the last few years,
GMOs have been one of the hot news for
us. This is due to the controversies behind
the use of GMOs. Ecosystem imbalance,
ethical violation, and animal preservation are
expected as the negative aspects of GMOs
to human welfare. Well, in order to further
understand the GMOs, we have to study the
theory and practice through research,” said
Prof. Kiba.
In his concluding remarks, Prof. Sakakibara
expressed his compliment to Ubaya Faculty
of Biotechnology. “I really enjoy delivering
seminar in Ubaya Faculty of Biotechnology.
Students seem very enthusiastic and eager
to learn about biotechnology. I believe that
in the future, some of you will become
biotechnologists who are expert in GMOs.”
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t is part of Ubaya commitment to work with
world’s top university, in this case Charles
Darwin University Australia (CDU), the
Northern Territory’s major tertiary institution
with about 19,000 students. CDU is well
respected as its commitment to be internationally
recognized as a centre for quality and high standard
education. Since the MoU signing on September
2008, Ubaya and CDU have consistently undertaken
some activities in implementing several cooperation
areas that have been committed on the MoU.
In order to ensure the consistency of current
activities as well as discuss coming activities, on 13
November 2009, CDU delegation consists of Prof.
Graham Pegg (Faculty of Education, Health and
Science Dean), Prof. Chris Austin (Head of School
Environmental and Life Sciences), and Monica
Turvey (Director International) visited Ubaya.
On that occasion, CDU delegation was warmly
welcomed by Endang Wahyuningsih (Ubaya Faculty
of Pharmacy Dean), Dr. Maria Goretti (Ubaya
Faculty of Biotechnology Dean), Dr. Nemuel Pah
CDU delegation with Ubaya Delegation
(Ubaya Electrical Engineering Department Head), and Yunus Fransiscus (Ubaya Centre
for Environmental Studies Director).
On the meeting, Prof. Graham Pegg stated, “We are really pleased to have good
partner like Ubaya. Placed among top 300 worldwide universities for its research
citations, our university has placed research as one of key components of CDU’s strategic
vision. Aiming to strengthen research citations in Ubaya and CDU, I gladly invite Ubaya
lecturers and researchers to conduct research in our campus.” At conclusion of the
meeting, both universities plan to explore 4 research areas of tropical environmental
management (mining, climate changing, carbon dynamics and mangrove); DNA
recombination; pharmacy in urban area and electronic engineering.
Ergonomics: Human Factors Design
Seminar by Prof. Lim Kee Yong, Singapore
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“
Ms. Zulaicha (Ubaya Industrial Engineering Department
Lecturer) is handing a token to Prof. Lim Kee Yong
rgonomics has evolved from conventional design concept of fitting the design of
a product to the needs of users to human factors design concept that based on
human behavior and psychological characteristics of users. The human factors
design has also shifted from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to Kano’s model of
quality. This means that in human factors design, we have to meet the performance
features, basic features, and also the excitement features of our consumers.
It is crucial to design the product that can fulfill or even exceed various needs from
different gender, age, and taste. For example, we need to differentiate airplane cockpit
design for men’s and women’s pilot because men are stronger than women. The chair and
table design for 1st grade students must also be different with 6th grade students.”
Prof. Lim Kee Yong (former founding Director Centre of Human Factors & Ergonomics
in Nanyang Technological University Singapore) revealed that in “Ergonomics: Human
Factors Design Seminar” held by Ubaya Industrial Engineering Department on 15
November 2009.
Section that attracts audiences most was when Prof. Lim disclosed the tips to successfully
compete in global market. According to Prof. Lim, “People need to exploit the challenge to
make a human factors design that can appeal consumers to buy the products. To successfully
compete in global market, we have to design attractive products that have visual aesthetic
and identity factor. “It” factor which refers to the ability to stimulate market’s perception
that our design is hype is also important. Please take success story of Apple and Blackberry
as an example. Apple’s attractive color and shape for its PC and iPod as well as Blackberry’s
qwerty design attract millions of consumers worldwide.”
Prof. Lim has more than 20 years of research and consultancy experience and has
worked with local and multi-national companies in Singapore, South East Asia and Europe.
His projects mainly involve with consumer products to control rooms and industrial/military
systems. Ending his presentation, Prof. Lim said, “Industry in Indonesia should pay more
attention in their market background and put effort to differentiate Indonesian design from
global competitors.”
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