Our faculty was able to start execution of cooperation contract between the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at King abdulAziz University and Faculty of Computing and Electronic Systems at the University of Essex (the contract period of 5 years) through the hiring of the first Research Assistant of the contract on Wednesday, 24/12/1431. Current activities aimed at the contract to increase the dissemination of scientific research in the field of smart buildings until accessing the full vision of serving our community by building a unique center at our university entitled "Smart AI Research Center of Excellence". The benefit of this contract is to make our University the leader by building the center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence. The center is supported on the outcomes of this collaboration of research, which will be designed on an intelligent hardware and software, and will be unique of its kind in the world. We have been building the terms of the contract to ensure success in the field of scientific research through two strategies:

• Hiring a full-time Research Assistant to support research groups. Dr.James has been hired as an assistant researcher for the duration of the contract to support all parties involved.
• Support the contract of four graduate students to be under the supervision of the Saudi team and use them to support the main objective of the project. And attending a training course entitled "PhD Co-Supervisors" during the period from 25/7/1432 to 7/8/1432 e e. which is required to supervise the PhD students.

Note, that upon completion of this course will be the first phase of the contract and the second phase will begin. In the second phase the team of the two universities will work with the research assistant and four PhD students to focus on the researches which will help us to reach the goal of completion of the accessing the full vision of serving our community in building a unique center at our university entitled "Smart AI Research Centre of Excellence".