Archiwum:

2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

December 17^th, 2001 Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated in the meeting of the partners of the european project PISTE which was held in Brussels (Belgium).

December 17^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Willy Picard visited the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), the biggest research institution for information and communication technology within Europe. It is a member the Hermann of Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF). GMD is a non-profit, limited liability private company (GmbH). Its shareholders are the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal States of North Rhine Westphalia, Hesse and Berlin. GMD's headquarters are in Sankt Augustin, Schloss Birlinghoven. More about GMD http://www.gmd.de

December 4^th, 2001 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak received a grant of the Foundation for Polish Science supporting his particpation at the 2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet SAINT'2002 which will be held in Nara (Japan) on January 2002. The conference is co-sponsored by the Information Processing Society of Japan and the IEEE Computer Society. More about the Foundation for Polish Science http://www.fnp.org.pl More about SAINT'2002 http://www.icse.eecs.uic.edu/saint2002

December 3^rd, 2001 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the Information Society Technologies Conference and Exhibition IST'2001 Event -Technologies Serving People, which was held in Dusseldorf (Germany). During the conference Dr. Walczak presented the results of the european project PISTE. More about the conference http://2001.istevent.cec.eu.int

November 28^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference Education - chances and risks of globalisation, which was held in Cieszyn-Ustronie. Prof. Cellary presented an invited lecture Education in the Global Information Society.

November 26^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated, as an External Reviewer, in the public defence of a doctoral thesis at the Lorraine Laboratory for Research into Information Technology and its Applications (LORIA) in Nancy, France. The doctoral candidate, Ms. Daniela Grigori, defended the Ph.D. thesis entitled Elements de flexibilite des systemes de workflow pour la definition et l'execution de procedes cooperatifs. LORIA is a combined Research Unit common to the following organisations: The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) http://www.cnrs.fr The National Polytechnical Institute of Lorraine (INPL) http://www.inpl-nancy.fr The National Institute for Research into Information Technology and Automation (INRIA) http://www.inria.fr The University Henri Poincare, Nancy 1 http://uhp.u-nancy.fr The University Nancy 2 http://www.univ-nancy2.fr More about LORIA http://www.loria.fr

November 19^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Sergiusz Strykowski participated in the Awarding Ceremony of the European Logistics Association Award for Logistics Excellence 2001. This event, under the patronage of Loyola de Palacio, Vice-president of the EU Commission and EU Commissioner for Transport an Energy, was held in Brussels. The European Logistics Association (ELA) is holding, as every year, the Award for the Logistic Excellence, which wishes to highlight the best enterprise initiative of the year, taking into account the innovation, quality, and the improvement in the supply chain. In the current edition of ELA Award 2001 eighteen teams from all Europe participated. The Department of Information Technology and Philips Lighting Poland S.A. submitted jointly a project entitled "e-MAX Internet e-Procurement System for International Business of Philips Lighting Poland S.A." The project has been selected for the strict final of the contest composed of four projects. More about ELA Award http://www.elalog.org More about our partner PLP http://www.philipslighting.com.pl More about the project http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm

November 17^th, 2001 Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated at the meeting of the partners of the european project PISTE which was held in Rennes (France).

November 15^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited lecture for the members of the Poznan Branch of the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum. The seminar was held in Poznan University of Technology premises. More about SHP http://www.humboldt.org.pl

November 5^th, 2001 A bimonthly LOGISTICS (No 5/2001) published an interview with Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Sergiusz Strykowski, laureates of PTL Logistics Reward 2001. Read the whole interview http://www.czasopismologistyka.pl

October 26^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Tadeusz Piatek from White&Case Chambers published in daily Rzeczpospolita a paper entitled Keys for Future. The paper presents technology of digital signature and comments a recent law on digital signature. Read the whole paper http://www.rzeczpospolita.pl/gazeta/wydanie_011026/prawo/prawo_a_3.html

October 26^th, 2001 Dr Krzysztof Walczak, Oskar Huminiecki and Willy Picard participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project PISTE which was held in Athens (Greece).

October 22^nd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated at the kick-off meeting of the partners of EU Project ARCO. The meeting was held in Florence (Italy). More about ARCO http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm

October 20^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki gave an inauguration lecture on New Economy for students of postgraduate studies Information Technology for Teachers, organized by the Faculty of Economics.

October 18^th, 2001 A team led by Prof. Wojciech Cellary: Prof. W. Wieczerzycki, Dr. J. Rykowski, Dr. K. Walczak, O. Huminiecki, W. Picard, S. Strykowski, W. Wiza - received the PUE Rector Award for the project entitled Internet Economy at the Poznan University of Economics.

October 3^rd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 1st IFIP International Conference on E-commerce, E-business, and E-government sponsored by the three IFIP committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. The I3E Conference was held in Zurich. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Prof. Cellary was a Program Committee member of this conference. More about the conference http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference

September 25^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki participated in the 5th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'2001 which was held in Vilnius (Lithuania). Prof. Wieczerzycki presented a paper CC++: A Database Language Supporting the Development of Collaborative Reusable Applications. More about the conference http://www.science.mii.lt

September 17^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Oskar Huminiecki participated in the 3rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS'2001 which was held in Cracow. DAIS denotes a series of international working conferences on distributed applications and interoperable systems, sponsored by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP). The conference program has always aimed at presenting the state of the art in research concerning distributed and interoperable systems. In this topical research area much activity is currently in progress, with innovating contributions arising regularly. The DAIS series of conferences is one of the main international forums where these important findings are reported. Prof. Cellary was a member of DAIS Program Committee. He also chaired a session Architectures, Services and Applications. More about the conference http://iris.ics.agh.edu.pl/dais2001 More about the IFIP http://www.ifip.or.at

September 14^th, 2001 Mr. Grzegorz Leszczynski from Marketing Strategies Department of the Poznan University of Economics had a seminar devoted to marketing strategies in Internet.

September 9^th, 2001 Mr. Wojciech Wiza participated in the 3rd International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services IIWAS'2001 which was held in Linz (Austria). Mr. Wiza presented a paper entitled WebWisdom - Database Support for Distance Learning Systems. More about the conference http://iiwas2001.scch.at

September 7^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki and Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski chaired, as general co-chairs, the 1st International Workshop on Web-Based Collaboration - WBC'01 which was held in Munich (Germany). During this conference Mr. Willy Picard presented a paper entitled Collaborative Document Edition in a Highly Concurrent Environment. More about the conference: http://www.dexa.org/program_W08.htm and http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/dexa_wbc/index.html

September 5^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki and Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski participated in the 12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2001, which was held in Munich (Germany). Prof. Wieczerzycki presented a paper entitled CDM: Collaborative Data Model for Databases Supporting Groupware Applications. He also chaired a session Object-Oriented Databases. More about the conference http://www.dexa.org

August 30^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference presenting the results of the Polish Educational Portal - Interkl@sa Program, a joint project of the Polish-American Freedom Fundation and the Parliament Committee for Education, Science and Youth. More about the Interkl@sa Program http://www.interklasa.pl

July 23^rd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary, Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Wojciech Wiza participated in the research meeting at France Télécom R&D premises in Rennes (France). More about France Télécom R&D http://www.rd.francetelecom.fr

July 12^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in Warsaw in the launch of the Human Development Report (HDR) entitled Making new technologies work for human development, edited by United Nations Development Programme. Every year since 1990 the UNDP has commissioned the Human Development Report by an independent team of experts to explore major issues of global concern. The Report also includes, for the first time, a Technology Achievement Index (TAI). The index ranks 72 countries in terms of their overall achievement in creating and using technology. Poland is on 29 position. More about the Report http://www.unic.un.org.pl

July 9^th, 2001 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Willy Picard participated in the working meeting of the partners of the European project PISTE. The meeting was held in Rennes (France).

July 9^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in Warsaw in the working meeting of United Nations Development Programme. Recently, he has been nominated editor-in-chief of the 2001 National Human Development Report devoted to the influence of information technologies on Polish society. More about UNDP: http://www.undp.org.pl

July 5^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki attended the 7th International Conference on Reengineering Technologies for Information Systems - Data and Documents Reengineering for the Web ReTIS 2001 which took place in Lyon (France). The ReTIS conferences are a biennal international manifestation devoted to reverse and reegineering issues in information systems. It is aimed at bringing together people coming from research, business and industry and interested in the field of the reverse engineering. Prof. Wieczerzycki presented a paper entitled DIPS - A Dynamic System for Web-based Business Process Reengineering. More about the conference http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~retis/

July 3^rd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the conference Higher Education in the Age of European Integration, organized by the Education, Science and Youth Committee of the Polish Parliament. The conference took place at the Parliament premises. Prof. Cellary presented an invited inauguration lecture entitled Universities in Face of the Global Information Society.

June 28^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended Program Committee meeting of the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet SAINT 2002 which will be held in Nara (Japan), January 2002. The PC meeting was held in Chicago (USA). This conference focuses on Internet applications that are considered novel and timely. It provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and the government to share their latest research results in Internet applications, and to present their underlying technologies. More about the conference http://www.ipsj.or.jp/kokusai/saint2002.html

June 27^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski were invited to join Program Committee of the International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services BASYS 2002 which will be held in Cancun (Mexico), September 2002. The focus of the conference will be to explore new challenges faced by the integration of Knowledge and Technology as major drivers for business changes considering Product and Services Life Cycles. BASYS?2002 will promote discussions and interactions between researchers and people from industrial practice. The conference is expected to bring together researchers, practitioners, developers and users of tools, technology transfer experts and project managers, among others. More about the conference http://tamayo.mty.itsem.mx/basys

June 27^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski participated in the working meeting at the Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (ERA GSM), the biggest Polish operator of mobile telephony. More about PTC http://www.eragsm.pl

June 26^th, 2001 Krzysztof Walczak received a Ph.D. degree with honorable mention from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the Technical University of Gdansk.

June 22^nd, 2001 Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerning implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX-Multilingual.

June 22^nd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the International Conference of the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum (Polish Humboldt Association) in Wroclaw. The main topic of the conference was Science and Education in Global Information Society in the Age of European Integration. Prof. Cellary presented an invited lecture entitled Global Information Society - a Challenge for Science and Education. Some 70 Humboldt Clubs and Associations have been founded in 40 countries since 1962 with the aim of cultivating vocational, specialist and personal contacts between former Humboldt guest-researchers. They maintain close contact with the Humboldt Foundation and assist, for example, in arranging Humboldt colloquia and meetings abroad. More about the conference and Polish Humboldt Association http://www.humboldt.org.pl More about Alexander von Humboldt Foundation http://www.humboldt-foundation.de

June 21^st, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the Polish Congress of Logistics organized in Warsaw by the Polish Logistics Association. He presented an invited lecture entitled Supply Chain Evolution in Electronic Economy. During the Congress, the president of the Polish Logistics Association announced the Department of Information Technology of PUE and Philips Lighting Poland the winners of the Polish Logistics Association Award in 2001 for the design, development and deployment of an Internet e-Procurement System E-Max. More about E-Max http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm More about Philips Lighting Poland http://www.lighting.philips.com.pl More about the Polish Logistics Association http://www.ean.pl/ptl.html

June 19^th, 2001 Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski participated in the working meeting at the Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (ERA GSM) in Warsaw. Discussion concerned application of agent technologies in mobile telephony.

June 18^th, 2001 President of the Republic of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski opened the computer laboratory - First Prize won by DIT in the contest entitled Internet Economy in Polish Universities. The opening ceremony was conducted by Rector of the Poznan University of Economics, Professor Emil Panek. At the ceremony participated also invited guests: representatives of sponsors, industry, local administration, PUE research staff and PUE students. Computer laboratory was opened virtually: the opening ceremony took place at PUE Main Building which was connected with DIT laboratory via Internet with high speed and high quality devices to videoconferences. The whole opening ceremony could be seen live on the Internet using streaming technology. After the ceremony Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an interwiev for Gazeta Wyborcza and Glos Wielkopolski. More about the contest http://www.prezydent.pl/szkola/projekty/index_projekty.htm/

June 12^th, 2001 Krzysztof Walczak publicly defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Database Modeling of Virtual Reality at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the Technical University of Gdansk. The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Wojciech Cellary.

June 5^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary had a keynote speech on Electronic Business at the 9th Polish Electronic Data Interchange - Electronic Commerce Conference EDI-EC 2001. The conference was held at the Dobieszkow Hotel near Lodz. After the conference Prof. Cellary was interviewed by local TV about the significance of electronic commerce in modern economy. More about the conference http://www.ld.onet.pl/lodz-edi-ec

June 4^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary had an invited talk entitled My way to research for doctoral students attending a meeting organized by the Scientific Society of Economic Informatics (Naukowe Towarzystwo Informatyki Ekonomicznej) at Dobieszkow near Lodz. More about NTIE http://bsd.ae.wroc.pl/ntie/

May 31^st, 2001 Results of the Golden Mouse Contest announced! This was the second edition of the contest entitled Golden Mouse open for students of the 1st year of studies at the Management Faculty of the Poznan University of Economics. The purpose of the contest is to reward the best web site on business issues created by students. The jury consisted of DIT members and representatives of business sponsors. The main criteria of the evaluation were: business model, quality of design and technical reliability. This year over 600 web sites were submitted. The prizes (a computer with a monitor, scanner, color printer, keyboards, mice and mobile phones) were founded by Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy S.A. and Internet Financial Service Expander.pl. The results were announced during the Reward Ceremony conducted by Prof. W. Cellary in the presence of the representatives of sponsors and the president of the university. The ceremony was filmed by the regional television. The First Prize won Szymon Kopiejewski for the web site devoted to teleworking. More about the Contest and the winners: http://ti.kti.ae.poznan.pl/mysz More about the sponsors: http://www.wbk.pl and http://www.expander.pl

May 30^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary received a letter with thanks from PUE Students Organization eXpanding possibilities SIFE in recognition of supporting student activity. more about SIFE and eXpanding possibilities http://sife.ebusiness.pl

May 29^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the Technical University of Gdansk.

May 28^th, 2001 Oskar Huminiecki, Wojciech Wiza and Willy Picard participated at the 6th Seminar organized by The Viadrina European University and The Poznan University of Economics in Lubniewice. The main goal of these seminars was to present research results of young staff from both schools. Our young researchers presented three papers: Oskar Huminiecki - Electronic Authentication, Wojciech Wiza - Web-search Engines - State of the Art, Willy Picard - Survey of e-Contract Negotiations Issues. The Lubniewice seminar once again confirmed the usefulness of such a project. The presentations, as well as questions and discussion, in and outside the conference rooms, proved to be both interesting and stimulating further research.

May 26^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented two lectures on Virtual Enterprises at the postgraduate studies organized at the Poznan University of Economics by the Department of Economic Policy.

May 20^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited lecture at the Warsaw School of Economics entitled Job Market in Electronic Economy.

May 19^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited lecture entitled Global Information Society at the conference New Media organized by the Polish Society of Sociology and students of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University. more about PSS: http://www.pts.org.pl

May 18^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the Second Conference of a Round Table Poland on the Way to Information Society organized by the Minister of Telecommunications under patronage of the Marshal of Polish Parliament.

May 16^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary received an award from the Student Parliament of the Poznan University of Economics in recognition of supporting student activity. From among about 1000 employees of PUE, students offered this award to 12 persons, including 5 professors.

May 15^th, 2001 Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerned implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX.

May 14^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary chaired a seminar on Significance of Information and Telecommunications Technologies for Social Development. organized by the United Nations Development Programme in Warsaw.

May 11^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the Symposium on Modern Economy and Public Administration, organized by the Cracow University of Economics. He presented a keynote speech on Electronic Economy and chaired a panel discussion on the current role of telecommunications in economy. Among others, two former vice-ministers of telecommunications participated in this panel discussion.

May 9^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to join the editorial board of WORLD WIDE WEB: Internet and Web Information Systems, edited by Kluwer Academic Publishers (USA). more about the journal: http://www.wkap.nl/journals/wwwj

May 8^th, 2001 Krzysztof Walczak passed successfully a doctoral exam on databases at the Technical University of Gdansk.

April 29^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited lecture at the Warsaw School of Economics entitled Business Models in Electronic Economy.

April 27^th, 2001 Krzysztof Walczak passed successfully two doctoral exams: on macro-economy and English language.

April 27^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki participated in the session of the Senate of the Poznan University of Economics (PUE). Prof. Emil Panek, President of PUE, presented him with a nomination for a position of associate professor of our Alma Mater.

April 26^th, 2001 Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerned implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX-MultiLingual.

April 25^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki organized a workshop Electronic Business - an Opportunity for SME?s in the framework of International Fair of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Electronics INFOSYSTEM?2001. more about the fairs: http://infosystem.mtp.com.pl/

April 24^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the Technical University of Gdansk.

April 21^st, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented four lectures on Electronic Business at the postgraduate studies organized at the Poznan University of Economics by the Department of Mathematical Economics.

April 20^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to join Program Committee of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT'02, Prague (Czech Republic), March 2002.

April 10^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary served as an expert to the Education and Research Commission of the Polish Parliament. He presented his evaluation of the governmental project Aims and Directions of the Information Society Development in Poland at the session of this commission.

April 8^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented three lectures on Electronic Business at the postgraduate studies organized at the Poznan University of Economics.

April 5^th, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki presented an invited talk at the AEGEE International Conference The 3rd Revolution - Welcome to the Cyber Society. The conference was organized by both Poznan and Berlin centers of the European Students' Forum. more about AEGEE: http://free.ngo.pl/aegeepoznan

April 3^rd, 2001 Krzysztof Walczak, Wojciech Wiza and Willy Picard participated in the working meeting of the PISTE project partners in Darmstadt (Germany). The meeting was organized by the Technical University of Darmstadt.

April 2^nd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended 17th International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE'2001 in Heidelberg (Germany). He chaired the session E-Commerce/Internet Applications. ICDE'2001 provides a premier forum for presenting new research results, exposing practicing engineers to evolving research, tools, and practices and providing them with an early opportunity to evaluate these, exposing the research community to the problems of practical applications of data engineering and promoting the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience among researchers and practicing engineers. more about the conference: http://www.icde2001.org

March 28^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the internal conference organized by the Poznan University of Economics entitled Future of the Poznan University of Economics. At this conference three independent teams of PUE researches presented their vision of the future of PUE. Prof. Witold Abramowicz and Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited talk: Poznan University of Economics in the face of Electronic Economy.

March 27^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of the Technical University of Gdansk.

March 23^rd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited speech at the Regional Statistics Center of the Poznan University of Economics, entitled Electronic Economy � a Challenge for the Administration.

March 22^nd, 2001 Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerned implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX-Multilingual.

March 20^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented a lecture: Challenges of Electronic Business at the seminar organized by State Foresters Directory at the Forest Gene Bank premises in Kostrzyca. more about the Forest Gene Bank: http://www.lbg.jgora.pl

March 15^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the internal conference organized by the Poznan University of Economics entitled Evaluation of the Teaching System. At this conference the results and the conclusions of a student opinion poll on a different aspects of the teaching system were presented and discussed.

March 15^th, 2001 Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerned implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX-Multilingual.

March 14^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to join Program Committee of the Polish Congress of Logistics, Warsaw (Poland), June 21-22, 2001 more about the Congress: http://www.ilim.poznan.pl

March 12^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the conference: Forum Oracle 2001 � Internet Applications for Business as an Advantage Factor in Competitiveness organized by Oracle Polska. in Warsaw.

March 5^th, 2001 Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerned implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX-Multilingual.

March 4^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the negotiation of the European project ARCO consortium with the European Commission representatives. The meeting was held in Luxembourg.

February 18^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited talk Education in Global Information Society to the presidents of Polish universities that met in Torun at the Mikolaj Kopernik University.

February 18^th, 2001 Krzysztof Walczak, attended the International Conference on Web3D (Paderborn, Germany). The annual Web3D Symposium is a major event in the Web3D community. This conference unites researchers, developers, experimenters, content creators and others in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing or creating new 3D web technology such as VRML, X3D, Java3D and MPEG-4. Mr. Walczak presented a paper entitled X-VRML - A Language for 3D Data Visualization. more about the conference: http://www.web3d.org/fs_events.htm

February 8^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been nominated editor-in-chief of the 2001 National Human Development Report devoted to the influence of information technologies on Polish society. The Report is edited by United Nations Development Programme. more about UNDP: http://www.undp.org/rbec

February 5^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a lecture: Electronic Economy � a Challenge for the Administration to the employees of Poznan Voivodeship Office.

February 1^st, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski organized a seminar on Agent Technologies for Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (ERA GSM) in Warsaw. Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa is the biggest Polish operator of mobile telephony. more about Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa: http://www.eragsm.pl

January 22^nd, 2001 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki and Sergiusz Strykowski organized a seminar on B2B Electronic Procurement in NKT Cables (Slaska Fabryka Kabli) in Czechowice Dziedzice. NKT Cable is a member of Danish NKT Group more about Slaska Fabryka Kabli: http://www.kable.com.pl

January 20^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a half an hour TV discussion on current problems of Polish telecommunications with the Minister of Telecommunications and an expert lawyer.

January 17^th, 2001 Prof Wojciech Cellary gave a number of lectures on Electronic Business to the executives of Kompania Piwowarska, one of the biggest brewery companies in Poland. more about Kompania Piwowarska: http://www.piwo.com.pl

January 16^th, 2001 Prof. Emil Panek, President of PUE, and Prof. Wojciech Cellary were invited to the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, where they received an award won by DIT in the contest Internet Economy in Polish Universities, from the hands of the President of the Republic of Poland. The contest was jointly organized by Intel Corporation and Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. more about the contest: http://www.prezydent.pl/szkola/projekty/index_projekty.htm

January 12^th, 2001 Dr. Waldemar Wieczerzycki participated in the solemn session of the Senate of the Technical University of Gdansk. During the ceremony he received a habilitated doctor diploma.

January 8^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended the International Symposium on Applications and the Internet SAINT'01 (San Diego, USA). He served as a vice-co-chair of e-Business track. He chaired a session Domain Specific Languages. The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in the area of Internet applications and the underlying technologies to support those applications. more about the conference: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~mliu/saint/

January 5^th, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Sergiusz Strykowski chaired a working meeting of DIT and the representatives of Philips Lighting Poland concerned implementation and deployment of the electronic procurement system e-MAX-MultiLingual The special guest of the meeting was Mr. Stanislaw Kozlowski, President of Philips Lighting Poland.

January 3^rd, 2001 Prof. Wojciech Cellary met representatives of Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (ERA GSM) in Warsaw. Discussion concerned application of agent technologies in mobile telephony. PTC is the biggest Polish operator of mobile telephony. more about Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa: http://www.eragsm.pl