
There have been 19 International Tamil Internet Conferences (ITIC) to date, held alternatively in India or abroad: Singapore, Malaysia, Europe (Germany), USA (Philadelphia, San Francisco), and Canada (Toronto). For each conference, INFITT had the pleasure and honor to actively collaborate with one or more regional Universities in India or abroad. The Chair of the main organizing committee IOC took care of the organizational details, the Chair of the Conference Program Committee CPC was primarily responsible to head a team of reviewers for a peer-review of submitted papers and for the selection of keynote, invited speakers. The table below gives some basic information on these conferences.
During the past 2o years, Tamil Internet Conference series has evolved to be the most important annual technical forum for all the academic researchers and software professionals working in the area of Tamil Computing. The ITIC conference proceedings of INFITT have been registered (since 2014) as a Serial Publication with the ISSN tag 2313-4887. The conference paper presenters would like to see the conference proceedings included (indexed) in major international databases such as SCOPUS for standard citation format in the journals.
Year | Venue | Co-Host | Chairs IOC, CPC |
1997 | Singapore | National Univ of Singapore | Prof. Tan Tin Wee, Naa. Govindasamy |
1999 | Chennai, IN | Govt. of Tamilnadu | Prof. M. Ponnavaiko |
2000 | Singapore | Tamil SC, Singapore | Mr. Arun Mahizhnan Mr. Muthu Nedumaran |
2001 | KL, Malaysia | Malaysian Indian Congress | Mr. Muthu Nedumaran Prof.K. Kalyanasundaram |
2002 | California, USA | Univ of California, Berkeley | Mr. Mani Manivannan Prof. K. Kalyanasundaram |
2003 | Chennai, IN | Anna University | Mr. Mani Manivannan |
2004 | Singapore | National Univ of Singapore | Mr, Arun Mahizhnan. Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram |
2009 | Köln, Germany | Univ of Köln, Germany | Prof. Ulrike Niklas Dr. Vasu Renganathan |
2010 | Coimbatore, IN | Govt of Tamilnad | Mr. TNC Venkatarangan, Dr. Vasu Renganathan |
2011 | Philadelphia, USA | Univ.of Pennsylvania, | Prof. Vasu Renganathan Prof. K. Kalyanasundaram |
2012 | Chidambaram, IN | Annamalai Univ | Prof. M. Ganesan |
2013 | KL, Malaysia | Univ. of Malaysia | Mr. C.M. Elanttamil |
2014 | Pondicherry, IN | Pondicherry Univ | Prof. A.G. Ramakrishnan |
2015 | Singapore | SIM University | Mr. S. Maniam, Prof. R. Shriram |
2016 | Dindigul, IN | Gandhigram Univ | Prof.A.G. Ramakrishnan |
2017 | Toronto, CA | Univ of Toronto | Prof. C.R. Selvakumar |
2018 | Coimbatore, IN | Tamilnadu Agricultural Univ | Prof. K. Kalyanasundaram |
2019 | Chennai, IN | Anna Univ | Prof. Vasu Renganathan, Prof. Sobha Lalitha Devi |
2020 | (virtual) | Univ of Moratuwa, SL | Prof. Gihan Dias Prof. Vasu Renganathan |