Virach Sornlertlamvanich ( 蘇義徳 )Assistant Executive Director, NECTEC, Thailand

NECTEC and the R&D Activities

NSTDA Organization(established by a special law in 1991)

NSTDA Board chaired by Minister of Science and Technology

NSTDA

TMC

BIOTEC MTEC NECTEC ิ

NANOTEC

NSTDA : National Science and Technology Development AgencyBIOTEC : National Center for Genetic Engineering and BiotechnologyMTEC : National Metal and Materials Technology CenterNECTEC: National Electronics and Computer Technology CenterNANOTEC: National Nanotechnology CenterTMC : Technology Management Center

Manpower

2005 550

2006 580

2007 805

2008 881

2009 (partial) 744

Annual Budget(Million Baht)

NECTEC Manpower and Budget

As of December 2009

ITS Technology Program

Collaboration examples:•ITS-Telecommunication ITST 2008in Phuket (October 2008) with NITC•2009 MoU with Tokyo University

Multilingual automatic speech translator

•Trial service for the travel domain (2009~)• Supporting translation among Thai, Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Hindi

ASTARConsortium

Human Language Technology

http://www.hlt.nectec.or.th

Parsit English-Thai Machine Translator•Public service on http://www.suparsit.com/ withover 500,000 users/year in 2007 (2004~)•Web service for SMS translation service (2007~)•Collaboration with Klongluang High School on English learning using automatic translator (2008~)

Digitized Thailand

Lanna Weaving Pattern Knowledge Base

V-Shape Scanner

Locally developedv-shape scanner

3D Flip Flash eBook•Image in .jpg and Flash animation in .swf•Display/search in XML•Modes of dispaly

–Modern book flipping–Thai ancient book(หนั�งสื�อใบลานั ) flipping

A joint collaboration between•Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre•National Library of Thailand •Science and Technology Knowledge Services : STKS, National Science and Technology Development Agency

Siam Rare Books Digitization Project

http://www.siamrarebooks.com