Tuesday, August 22, 2023- The minister of higher education and scientific research, Mr.Kamel Baddari paid an inspection visit to the research center for scientific and technical information in Ben Aknoun, in order to give the start signal for the national network of intensive computing.

The visit comes within the framework of the ministry’s keenness to develop different projects regarding digitalization, artificial intelligence, and the functioning of various units and departments of the research center for scientific and technical information, among which is a unit responsible for processing graphics used in AI and many other platforms affiliated to the center. The minister, on the same occasion, launched the national network of intensive computing, as he explained in the same context that the network encompasses in its initial stage ‘ a network including platforms affiliatedto 8 universities across the national territory’. Minister Baddari also added that the network ‘will correspond to the growing demand on AI applications and massive data, besides, the modernization of related operations and heading towards numerical simulation’. He moreover noted that ‘ the studies office affiliated to the same center takes on the tasks of developing scientific research outcomes in AI and cyber-security’.

In addition to that, minister Baddari unveiled, on the same occasion, the establishment of a new data center which will be affiliated to the research center for scientific and technical communication, at high quality and sophisticated standards, scheduled to enter into service on November 1, 2023.
From the other hand, Mr. Baddari noted that ‘the sector ofhigher education and scientific research is witnessing the largest recruitment operation ever since the independence’, thus, 10 thousands job positions have been created across all university institutions in the country.He also explained that the employment operationhas included the recruitment of 8 thousands university instructors rank ‘B’, in addition to 1409 hospitalist university instructors.