The Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Baghdad held a symposium entitled:
“Managing and maintaining research resources”
It was delivered by Assistant Lecturer Raafat Saleh Muhammad on Monday, May 8, 2024, in the discussion room in the department, in the presence of the Head of the Department, (Assist. Prof. Dr. Firas Ali Saber), in addition to a number of scientific department teachers. The symposium included a presentation of the concept of research resources and the importance of preserving them by the researcher and graduate student. Since it is very necessary to keep it safe and not to damage it, lose it, or forget it to ensure that the research requirements are completed and published correctly and soundly. Since most research resources are digital and intangible resources, electronic awareness is necessary for graduate students and researchers. Developing basic computer skills and clarifying some hidden shortcuts in operating systems that can serve the researcher very effectively if relied upon, facilitating work and accelerating completion. It is also necessary to protect the computer from infection with malicious system viruses, including data erasure or encryption, such as ransomware. The symposium came up with a number of recommendations:
1- Do not download programs from the Internet randomly and activate them for free because most activation programs are infected with viruses.
2- Use different ways of backup.
3- Use cloud storage to save data, and the importance of using e-mail.
4- Activate the operating system officially.
5- Activate desktop printing programs such as Microsoft Office
6- Ensure that there is a protection system in the operating system to protect against viruses and malicious software, and that it is not free (most of these programs are low in cost).
- The necessity of learning to use artificial intelligence in the field of designing images and presentation slides, and even benefiting from scientific dialogues with it, with the need to understand how to harness it and not use it as a main tool in scientific research, but rather harness it and benefit from its speed in research and access to the required information and its ability to answer various questions.
