Malicdem, Alvin2026-08-202026-08-202021Malicdem, A. (2021). Message on behalf of the program chairs: iCORE 2021. In 2021 1st International Conference in Information and Computing Research (iCORE 2021) proceedings (p. xvii). doi.org/10.1109/ICORE54267.2021.00008978-166540210-1https://lakasa.dmmmsu.edu.ph/handle/123456789/2404Full textKnowledge is meant to be shared. As a General Co-Chair of the 1st International Conference in Information and Computing Research, organized by National University and Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University, it is my great honor to welcome you in this year's conference. Receive my warm welcome and my well wishes for professional successes for everyone. This pandemic and its effect spared no one. Despite that, we continue to live our lives, improve our works, extend our services to our community and address the need to advance our researches, particularly in the field of computing. Advancing the computing field should not cease, neither slowdown. Hence, our conference theme, “Adapting to the new normal: advancing computing research for a postpandemic society”. As we move forward this time and season, I am confident that this conference will provide us a great avenue to communicate our research outputs and have significant information exchanges and networking (Malicdem, 2021).enEditorial