Come and join, IEC youth fellowship, this Sat. See the poster below.

In an age when human beings have learned the code of human life and can transmit their knowledge in seconds from one continent to another, no mother in the world can understand why her child should be left to die of malnutrition or preventable disease. Never before have the leaders of so many nations come together in a single assembly. This is a unique opportunity and therefore, a unique responsibility. No one can understand why the soil their parents tilled has turned to desert and their family is left hungry. We need to decide our priorities so that that in the future those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people’s lives. They expect you to work together as governments, and they expect you to work together with other institutions profit and non-profit, public and private where human beings join hands to promote their ideas and their interests. People know that these challenges cannot be met by one country alone. That is why we are here. They look to you to protect them from the great dangers of our time. That, my friends, is what the peoples expect of us. Let us not disappoint them.

Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan

Haha… Is he my grandfather? Is he my father? Or maybe just someone who had similar face with me? Haha…

Can not stop laughing on myself… Yes, YearbookYourself is the troublemaker, haha… (click on the image to see more oldies faces of mine generated by that funny site, stored in my gallery). If you’re interested, just try for yourself and laugh on yourself, haha…

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Here is a photo taken from “meet and greet” TOKI 2008. It was in Sakae Sushi at Changi Airport, just after TOKI 2008 grabbed 1 gold and 3 bronzes from IOI on Egypt. There were 4 students (Irvan, Adhit, Risan, Gogo), 7 coaches (me, Prima, Bram, Felix, Mr.Adi, Mr.Julio, Mr.Suryana). It was a nice experience, although I have to travel for almost 3,5 hours (round-trip) to go there from my campus.

(from left to right : Brian Marshal, Mr. Adi Mulyanto, Mr. Julio Adi S, Risan, Prima Chairunnanda, Mr. Suryana Setiawan) 

(from left to right : Bramandia Ramadhana, Listiarso Wastuargo, Felix Halim, Irvan Jahja, Reinardus Surya P) 

Finally, I’ve decided my topic for URECA. It is “Bee Colony Optimization : Travelling Salesman and Jobshop Scheduling” under Asst Prof Yoke Hean Low, Malcolm.

Mainly, I will studying some meta-heuristics algorithm for some operational-research problems. Specifically, I will do some investigation on bee colony optimization (which just popularized this year) for solving some benchmark problem in operational-research (i.e. Travelling Salesman and Jobshop Scheduling, as the title state).

I hope I can get some extra-ordinary experiences, knowledges, and adventures doing this one-year-project.

related news :

http://www.toki.or.id/newsdetail.php?newsid=222 

http://fauzanjs.multiply.com/journal/item/9/Kado_Ulang_Tahun_RI_ke_63 

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Sekedar refresh sepak terjang TOKI selama 14 tahun terakhir di International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

1995 Eindhoven, Belanda : 1 PERAK (one man only, first medal)
1996 Veszprem, Hongaria : -
1997 Cape Town, Afrika Selatan : 1 EMAS + 1 PERUNGGU (first gold)
1998 Setubal, Portugal : 2 PERAK + 1 PERUNGGU
1999 Antalya, Turki : -
2000 Beijing, China : 2 PERUNGGU
2001 Tempere, Finland : 1 PERUNGGU
2002 Yong-In, Korea : 1 PERAK + 1 PERUNGGU
2003 Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA : - (no visa)
2004 Athens, Greece : 2 PERAK + 1 PERUNGGU
2005 Nowy Sacz, Poland : 2 PERAK + 1 PERUNGGU
2006 Merida, Mexico : 1 PERAK
2007 Zagreb, Croatia : 4 PERUNGGU (first full medals)
2008 Cairo, Egypt : 1 EMAS + 3 PERUNGGU (second full medals + secondgold)

Kalau dilihat-lihat, berarti perolehan tahun ini adalah prestasiterbaik TOKI. Semoga ke depannya makin baik lagi!

Sekali lagi selamat kepada empat besar dan para pembina TOKI 2008!

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CONGRATZ! SELAMAT!

(Hadiah untuk Kemerdekaan Indonesia yang ke-63)

Setelah deg-degan menunggu hasil berjam-jam bersama beberapa alumni lainnya, berikut hasil (99% resmi) mengenai perolehan medali TOKI di IOI 2008:

Irvan Jahja - 361 - Medali Emas
Reinardus Surya Pradhitya - 213 - Medali Perunggu
Risan - 184 - Medali Perunggu
Listiarso Wastuargo - 153 - Medali Perunggu

Batas nilai terendah untuk medali perunggu : 127
Batas nilai terendah untuk medali perak : 230
Batas nilai terendah untuk medali emas : 360

(hasil 99% resmi untuk semua peserta IOI 2008 dapat dilihat di http://snarknews.info/, bagi yang kesulitan membacanya, silakan gunakan translate.google.com untuk russia to english)

Hal yang cukup mengejutkan, sudah lama batas nilai terendah untuk medali IOI tidak serendah ini, yang artinya soal tahun ini memang lebih sulit dibanding beberapa tahun terakhir.

Tentunya, TOKI 2008 sudah menunjukkan performa terbaiknya dengan memberikan kemajuan yang sangat siginifikan dibanding 4 medali perunggu pada IOI 2007 dan 1 medali perak pada IOI 2006, terutama Irvan Jahja yang memecahkan rekor 10 tahun TOKI tanpa emas (FYI, terakhir kali TOKI mendapat medali emas adalah a.n. Andy Kurnia pada IOI 1997). Walau mepet sekali dengan batas bawah medali emas, perolehan ini sangat menggembirakan karena bahkan lebih tinggi dari perolehan beberapa peserta unggulan dari negara pendominasi seperti Cina, Polandia, USA, dll.

Sekali lagi selamat. Kepada Reinardus dan Risan, masih ada kesempatan tahun depan untuk menyusul Irvan memberikan emas lainnya untuk TOKI.

Viva TOKI!