Welcome to the Department of Information Technology

The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is part of the Faculty of Informatics and e-Economy of the Poznan University of Economics and Business. The Department is composed of 12 members: 1 full professor, 3 associate professors, 1 assistant professors, 1 senior lecturer, 5 research assistants and 1 administrative person. The Department also takes care of 2 Ph.D. students. The research members have technical qualifications in computer science and engineering. The head of DIT is Professor Krzysztof Walczak. More about DIT »

News Chronicle

December 19, 2019

Prof. Wojciech Cellary delivered the invited seminar entitled “Non-Technical Challenges of Industry 4.0” for employees of the Department of Applied Informatics in Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, Gdańsk University of Technology.

December 11 - 12, 2019

Jakub Flotyński, PhD, participated in the international conference STEREOPSIA The 9th International Conference on 3D Immersion IC3D 2019, which took place on December 11-13. in Brussels. The Conference Program Committee has accepted for presentation and publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library two articles: “Annotation-based Creation of Explorable Immersive VR / AR Environments” (authors: Jakub Flotyński, Adrian Nowak), and "The Semantic Web3D: towards comprehensive representation of 3D content on the semantic web" (authors: Don Brutzman, Jakub Flotyński, Athanasios Malamos, Nicholas Polys, Leslie Sikos).

November 22 - 28, 2019

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak, and Jakub Flotyński, PhD, visited InterVault GK Japan, based in Tokyo. They presented the results of previous work, they also participated in technical consultations regarding the joint project in the field of developing secure internet communication systems and building a new generation of cryptocurrency trading platforms.

November 19, 2019

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the International Open Eyes Economy Summit, which was held in Krakow on November 19-20, 2019. Open Eyes Economy Summit is an international conference on the economy based on social values, held once a year, in autumn, at the Congress Center ICE Krakow. During the conference prof. Wojciech Cellary and prof. Krzysztof Obłój from the Kozminski University participated in an intellectual debate on “Data and Artificial Intelligence Management and the competence-oriented company”.

November, 12 - 14, 2019

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated as an independent expert of the European Commission in a session monitoring the implementation of the EASY TV project - "Easing the Access of Europeans Disabilities to Converging Media and Content" H2020, which was held in Madrid on November 12-14, 2019.

November 9 - 11, 2019

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the international conference The 3rd International Conference on E-Business and Internet ICEBI 2019, which took place in Prague, November 9-11, 2019. Prof. Cellary served as a Conference Program Chair of the ICEBI conference. In addition, he was invited to give a keynote speech entitled "The impact of emerging IT on privacy as a key factor of future e-business".

October 22 - 25, 2019

Prof. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the international conference The 16th EuroVR International Conference, which was held in Tallinn (Estonia) from 22 to 25 October 2019. Prof. Walczak served as a General Co-Chair of the conference. He also organized the show of VR / AR applications developed at the Department of Information Technology in cooperation with AMICA S.A. UEP students who worked on creating applications as part of summer student internships also participated in the show. Prof. Walczak also gave an online interview for the Estonian business portal Business-M.

October 4 - 5, 2019

Researchers of the Department of Information Technology participated in the conference and exhibition "Poznan 4.0. Industry of the future: it pays off, it works ”, which took place on the premises of the Poznań International Fair. The event was organized by the Future Industry Platform Foundation and the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology. Prof. Wojciech Cellary delivered an introductory lecture entitled "Industry 4.0 and Economy 4.0.” During the session "It works” prof. Krzysztof Walczak presented the presentation "Future Room" - technologies of the future in the AMICA Group, as an example of industry and university cooperation. During the gala award ceremony, the Virtual Reality Laboratory of the Poznań University of Economics was awarded the prestigious organizers' prize for presenting industry 4.0 technologies that operate and support the digital transformation of the Polish economy. The award was granted for the best-working innovative solutions developed in cooperation between science and industry.

September 19, 2019

Dr hab. Eng. Adam Wójtowicz gave an invited lecture entitled "End-user security: new requirements, threats and security" for participants of the "Safe E-commerce Conference (SEC)" which took place at the Research and Conference Center of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Będlewo near Poznań. The conference was organized by Polish Platform for Homeland Security.

September 15 - 17, 2019

Jakub Flotyński, PhD, Tomasz Krokosz, PhD student, and Adrian Nowak, a fourth-year student participated in The 40th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology ISAT 2019, which took place on September 15-17, 2019 at Wroclaw University of Technology. The Program Committee of the ISAT conference accepted the following articles for presentation and publication in conference proceedings published by Springer: "Verification of IoT devices by means of a shared secret" (authors: Krokosz T., J. Rykowski)  and  “Architecture for Distributed Explorable HMD-based Virtual Reality Environments "(authors: Flotyński, J., A. Nowak, K. Walczak).