Prof. Dr. Amin Douai Thamer - president of the University of Technology opened a scientific symposium entitled "The role of information technology in the transition to a digital and translation mechanism institutions." The symposium aimed to familiarize the audience with two main components:

• The first Axis: - Identify the role of information technology in the transition towards a digital society and the impact of information and communication technology to gain access to knowledge-based economy and the development of e-learning.
• The second axis: to identify the types of machine translation based on rules such as translation, translation and statistical translator based on the examples and translation and hybrids definition to present the advantages and disadvantages of each of these types.

The symposium, which was ran by Dr. Bashar Saadoun Mahdi, begin by president of the University of Technology' speech : - , " many of the state institutions is heading to the University of Teechnology , this indicates that the fruits of the efforts of four years of continuous efforts." A lecture at the seminar was delivered by Dr. Rahim Saheb Okla /Director of the Center for Information Technology and Communications. The other axis at the symposium was delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Suhad Mal Allah Kazem and Dr. Esraa Abdel Amir Abdul-Jabbar. The symposium was held on Wednesday 2016-01-13 in the Hall of Dr. Emad Kazem Jabbar in the Department of Computer Sciences and the presence of the head of the Department of Computer Sciences Assistant Professor Dr. Hala Bahjat Abdul Wahab and Dr. Alia Kareem Abdul-Hassan and Dr. Ayad Roudhan Abbas and the heads of branches and number of employees of the department and teachers.