As part of its educational, scientific and cultural activities, the Ecole Numérique Kabyle (ENK) organised a conference on Sunday 08 September at the Auditorium of Collège de Maisonneuve, Montreal (Quebec) entitled ‘Lexique informatique en langue kabyle’, presented by Professor Samia Saad-Bouzefrane, University Professor and Director of the CEDRIC Laboratory in France.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE:
The conference was divided into two parts:
In the first part, Samia Saad-Bouzefrane presents her professional background before returning to the creation of the dictionary in Kabyle, explaining the approach adopted and illustrating it with concrete examples.
The second part is devoted to the Kabyle-language computer lexicon. She discusses the adoption of IT terminology on the Internet, highlighting examples of essential terms that should be included to update the lexicon.
Ms Samia Saad-Bouzefrane has also prepared teaching material in the form of videos of computer lessons in Kabyle, with the aim of popularising the subject.
A book-selling session for her Dictionnaire de terminologies informatique : English, Français, Taqvaylit was scheduled to take place immediately after the conference.
Samia Saad-Bouzefrane, also known as Samia Nat Belɛid, obtained her doctorate in computer science from the University of Poitiers (France) in 1998. After spending four years at the University of Le Havre as Maîtresse de Conférences in Computer Science, she joined the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) in Paris in September 2002. She has been a University Professor at CNAM since September 2019.
Until December 2023, she held the position of IT expert referent for the research tax credit within the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Since January 2024, she has been head of the CEDRIC Laboratory, which brings together more than 170 teacher-researchers and doctoral students.
She is also the author and co-author of numerous books, including Dictionnaire d’informatique Anglais-Français-Berbère, Systèmes d’exploitation, Cartes à puce and Systèmes de gestion d’identité. She has also co-authored more than 120 published scientific articles.
Her current areas of research focus mainly on security on the Internet of Things (IoT), using artificial intelligence techniques in particular.
She is also involved in a number of research projects, including a French ANR project that she is coordinating, focusing on the detection of attacks in cyber-physical systems using graph-based neural network (GNN) methods.
École Numérique Kabyle (ENK) is a non-profit organisation (NPO) working in the field of education and learning in the digital age to promote academic and social success. The school offers its own teaching programmes inspired by the world’s best-performing education systems, based on the OECD’s PISA assessment reports.
The technological platform offers the possibility of organising courses via video-conferencing. Courses can be organised by class, by streams (categories, sub-categories, cohorts…) and by learning level in a suitable and appropriate online learning environment.
Mission :
– To carry out a range of educational activities for both children and interested adults. The school works specifically in the field of education and learning in general, covering all levels from pre-school to higher education.
– ENK works internationally in general and for Kabylia in particular.
Vision:
– To become a leading source of distance learning.
– Meet the diverse needs of today’s young people to promote their academic success.
Objectives:
Overall, the school’s objectives are:
1. To provide free distance learning courses at all school levels, according to the possibilities and resources available to the Kabyle Digital School (ENK).
2. To teach and promote the Kabyle language in all areas.
3. To organise learning and support workshops for students.
4. To organise open seminars and conferences.
5. Organise and supervise specific distance learning courses.
6. Supervise and provide distance support courses: mathematics, science, languages, etc.
7. Propose, supervise and finance small research projects.
8. Establish partnerships
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