SKUDAI – Imbas Arqis (Academic Record QR Information System) yang dibangunkan melibatkan kos RM100,000 di bawah geran penyelidikan Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) untuk kesan ketulenan ijazah adalah perisian pertama seumpamanya di dunia.
Bukan sahaja bakal dipasarkan di dalam negara, malah ciptaan terkini seorang penyelidik UTM, mampu takluki pasaran antarabangsa apabila dikomersialkan nanti.
Naib Canselor UTM, Profesor Datuk Dr Zaini Ujang berkata, setakat ini, sebanyak empat institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) dan swasta (IPTS) sudah menunjukkan minat untuk mengguna pakai perisian tersebut di universiti masing-masing.
“Menerusi ciptaan ini, ia dapat mengesan kesahihan setiap sijil dengan mudah sekali. Kita juga yakin perisian ini mampu menarik minat khususnya kepada majikan yang khuatir dalam mencari pekerja baru.
“Dengan kredibilitinya, ia juga diyakini menjadi salah satu alternatif kepada penyelesaian isu ijazah palsu seperti yang pernah dilaporkan berlaku baru-baru ini,” katanya kepada media, di sini, semalam.
Hadir sama, Timbalan Naib Canselor (Akademik & Antarabangsa), Dr Rose Alinda Alias dan Pensyarah Kanan Fakulti Alam Bina Jabatan Perancang Bandar dan Wilayah, Dr Muhammad Zaly Shah Muhammmad Hussein yang mencipta perisian itu.
Sementara itu, buat pertama kalinya, UTM telah mengaplikasikan inovasi tersebut pada majlis konvokesyennya yang berlangsung pada 13 sehingga 16 Oktober ini melibatkan 5,304 pelajar.
Mengulas tentang ciptaan itu, Muhammad Zaly Shah berkata, perisian berkenaan menggunakan kod bertindak cepat (QR) yang dicetak pada ijazah graduan dan dibangunkan bersama ‘Imbas Pembaca’.
“Para majikan yang berminat boleh mendapatkan perisian ‘Imbas Pembaca’ yang mempunyai versi bahasa Melayu dan Inggeris itu dengan memuat turunnya secara percuma di laman web www.imbas.my/download mulai Selasa depan.
Sumber : Sinar Harian
UTM fights fakes
JOHOR BARU: UNIVERSITI Teknologi Malaysia reached a milestone yesterday with its invention of a new security feature to tackle the problem of forged academic certificates.
For the first time, the security mark was imprinted on the scrolls given out to 5,304 graduands during its 49th convocation, from Saturday.
Several public and private universities have expressed interest in using this new security feature in their certificates and UTM has given them the green light.
Called the “imbas” reader application, all one needs to do is download the page for the reader application to verify the authenticity of the degree.
The quick response code (QRC) printed on the certificates, similar to the QRC used in product advertising, is then scanned to reveal all the information about the degree holder, said UTM Vice-Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Zaini Ujang.
“If the name printed on the certificate differs from what is revealed through the QRC, then the certificate is a forgery.
“Information on the degree holder can be traced even if we scan a photocopy of the certificate. This is because all the security features will remain intact in the QRC.”
The software was developed at a cost of about RM100,000 by Dr Muhammad Zaly Shah Mu- hammad Hussein, senior lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UTM.
Zaini said as the QRC was a cheaper and more convenient method, UTM could now do away with the need to spend huge amounts of money printing certificates using high-quality printing paper and security features, as the QRC could be printed on any type of paper.
He said the software could detect any forgery swiftly compared with other security features such as the hologram.
“UTM is the pioneer university in the country, as well as in the world, in using QRC to address the problem of forged certificates.”
Zaly said the software had been patented and he would propose to the Education Ministry to adopt the technology when giving out certificates for public examinations.
The reader application can be downloaded at www.imbas.com. my.
Source : New Straits Times
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