Only 8 percent of around 10,000 graduates in computer science and engineering (CSE) in Bangladesh contribute to software development, said BASIS President Mustafa Jabbar at a conference in the city on Monday.
“As we are going towards a middle income country by 2021, technology is the main driver for the vision. But, a very few number of CSE students have kept them with software development,” he said, adding, “We should inspire them in programming otherwise the sector will be grabbed by foreign outlets.”
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) division in association with Google Developer Group (GDG) and Preneur Lab jointly organized the Machine Learning Conference at Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), said a press release. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. Tensor Flow is a developer tool of Google which is used mostly around the world.
Around 300 programmers on Machine Learning (ML) along with officials from ICT division and telecom operators participated in the event and shared the future of ML technology in the country.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) President said most of the young people complain that there are not enough contents in Bangla for technology.
He said the government has taken a project to develop 16 technology tools including – speech to text, optical char-rector reader (OCR) and multi-language dictionaries for Bangla which will be implemented in next 3 years.
GDG Advisor and Preneur Lab Chief Executive Officer Arif Nezami said the global market of ML is increasing day by day. According a Google research, the ML will dominate a market of $ 8.3 trillion by 2035.
LICT project specialist Nile Rahman, mobile phone operator Grameenphone’s Head of Apps Ecosystem Zakia Zerin, Robi Axiata Digital Services Manager Mohammad Salah Uddin and Prime Tech Chief Technical Officer Mohammad Asif Atick were, among others, attended the sharing sessions.
GDG Manager Rakhshanda Rukham said, “We want to introduce the new trend of ML to the technology start-ups, software developers as well as the authority concerned in the country though they can adopt the future innovation”.
The organizer also informed that officials from Google head quarter connected to the sessions over internet and share the latest innovations of the trend.
