The administrative assistant in the Department of Computer Science, Assistant Professor Dr. Bashar Saadoun Mahdi, received thanks and appreciation from the President of the University of Technology, Professor Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Hassan Al-Ghabban, in appreciation of his efforts in supervising the projects of the winning students of the graduation projects festival for students of the final stage in its fourth edition (Technology Creativity and Innovation) for the academic year 2022-2023. We wish him more giving in the scientific process in service of our beloved university.

The lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Assistant Professor Dr. Iqbas Ezzedine Ali, received thanks and appreciation from the President of the University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Al-Ghabban, in appreciation of her distinguished efforts and exerted by her in publishing the tagged scientific research A novel Solution of Deep learning For Endoscopic Ultrasound Image Segmentation: Enhanced Computer Aided Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Stromaltumor In a solid international journal with impact factors and indexed within the Clarivate database. We wish her continued success in serving our university and our beloved race.

The Department of Computer Science discussed the tagged master's thesis Improving Image Classification using Xception Model with Image Coding by Akram Hasan Swailem, a master's student, in the discussion hall in the building of the Department of Computer Science. The thesis aims to integrate the deep neural network with some image compression algorithms to reduce its data, which leads to reducing the image processing time as well as the storage space, taking into account the accuracy of the results. The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Ayad Rawdan Abbas as Chairman, with membership as Prof. Dr. Ikhlas Watan Ghandawi, and Prof. Dr. Ikhlas Faleh Nasser, Prof. Dr. Abdul Amir Abdullah Karim as member and supervisor, and Dr. Mustafa Jassim as member and supervisor.

The Department of Computer Science discussed the doctoral dissertation tagged Dynamic Background Extraction In Video Surveillance Based On Artificail Intelligent Technique by doctoral student Maryam Abdel-Rahim Yasser on the discussion hall in the building of the Department of Computer Science. The thesis aims to build a new model for extracting the moving scene background in video surveillance systems, and very good results were obtained with very small error rates. The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sahib Mahdi as Chairman, and the membership of Prof. Dr. Ziyad Muhammad Abboud, Dr. Tariq Ahmed Rashid, Prof. Dr. Ayad Rawdan Abbas, and Prof. Dr. Rahim Abdel-Saheb Akla and Prof. Yousra Hussein Ali, members and supervisor.

The Department of Computer Science discussed the tagged master's thesis Image Encrption Approach Based On Quad Tree Decomposition Technique by Sahabah Fawad Ibrahim on the discussion hall in the building of the Department of Computer Science. The thesis aims to present the development of image encryption algorithms that depend on showing the capabilities of the quadruple tree to be an effective auxiliary tool in encryption to increase the security of the image and the speed of its encryption. The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Metheel Emad El Din Abdel Moneim as Chairman and Membership, Prof. Dr. Abeer Salem Jamil, Prof. Dr. Noha Jamil Ibrahim, Dr. Hala Bahgat Abdel Wahhab as Member and Supervisor, and Prof. Dr. Abdel Mohsen Jaber Abdel Hussein, Member and Supervisor