The results of the 17th edition of the competition for the Scientific Awards of the weekly POLITYKA announced! Among 15 finalists is Jakub Flotyński, assistant professor at the Department of Information Technology, who received the Final Prize in the amount of 5,000 PLN. POLITYKA Foundation competition addressed to young scientists is organized as part of the "Stay with us" campaign, run under the patronage of the POLITYKA weekly.
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Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended as a panelist an international conference Freedom Games 2017 - "RE:evolution / Digital reality" organized in Łódź (Poland) by Liberté! Foundation. Prof. Cellary participated in a panel discussion entitled „The Perspectives of Free Trade Development”. A special guest of the panel was Maria Åsenius, a Head of Cabinet to EU Commissioner Cecille Malmström.
Adam Wójtowicz, PhD, attended VI Poland-Taiwan Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, organized in Warsaw jointly by The National Centre for Research and Development of Poland, The National Science Council of Taiwan and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan.
Jakub Flotyński, PhD, received a short-term research scholarship from DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service). A one month scholarship will start in March 2018 at the Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Group of University of Bremen. The CGVR Group is conducted by Prof. Gabriel Zachman.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the Council for Informatization of Education, an advisory body to Minister of National Education. Prof. Cellary serves as a member of the Council since 2012.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended The 26th National Scientific Symposium "Human - Media - Education" which took place in Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland). During the plenary session of the conference prof. Wojciech Cellary presented a lecture entitled "School versus Virtual Reality".
Jarogniew Rykowski, PhD, attended The 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology and Applications RFID-TA 2017, which took place in Warsaw, September 20 - 22, 2017. During a plenary session Jarogniew Rykowski presented an invited lecture entitled "Is radio-based identification trusted?". During a working session Applications and Software he presented a paper entitled „Multi-dimensional identification of things, places and humans”.
Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, attended an inauguration meeting of ministerial task force for the development of scientific and IT infrastructure for research at the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The meeting took place in Ministry presmises in Warsaw.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a conference The 5th International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering HSSE 2017, organised within the framework of The 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2017, which took place in Los Angeles (CA, USA), July 17 - 21, 2017. Prof. Wojciech Cellary served as a Program Co-Chair of the HSSE Conference. During a session entitled "Shaping the Human Side of T-Shaped Professionals II" he presented a paper „E-business as an example of T-shape education” (authors: Cellary, W., and J. Rykowski). Prof. Cellary co-chaired a closing session during which HSSE Best Paper Awards were presented.
The Department of Information Technology hosted Dr. Andre Szykier - Senior Executive Advisor to CEO, UNI K.K.(USA). Dr. Szykier gave an invited seminar entitled "Jigsaw and InterVault - end-to-end security for messaging and data cloud storage".
The Department of Information Technology hosted The 26th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises WETICE 2017, which was an international forum for state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration. For more information visit WETICE 2017 homepage http://wetice.ue.poznan.pl/
Krzysztof Walczak, Ph.D., and Rafał Wojciechowski, Ph.D., attended The 4th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics Salento AVR 2017 which took place in Ugento (Italy), June 12 – 15, 2017. Rafał Wojciechowski presented a paper entitled „Versatile Augmented Reality Scenes for Tangible Interaction in Real-World Environments”. Krzysztof Walczak presented two papers: „Semantics-Supported Collaborative Creation of Interactive 3D Content” (as author) and a paper entitled „Semantic Exploration of Distributed AR Services” (authors: Walczak, K., R. Wojciechowski, A. Wójtowicz), which was awarded The Best Paper Award.
Krzysztof Walczak, Ph.D., and Jakub Flotyński, Ph. D., attended The 22nd International Conference on 3D Web Technology Web3D 2017 hosted by The University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia), June 5 – 7, 2017. Jakub Flotyński served as a Program Co-Chair of the Web3D Conference. During the conference Krzysztof Walczak presented a paper entitled “Semantic Model for Distributed Augmented Reality Services” (authors: Walczak, K., and D. Rumiński). He chaired also a session „Transmission and streaming of 3D content”. Jakub Flotyński presented a paper “Knowledge-based Representation of 3D Content Behavior in a Service-Oriented Virtual Environment” (authors: Flotyński, J., and K. Walczak), he chaired a session „Web-based 3D environments and systems”. Krzysztof Walczak and Jakub Flotyński participated also in Virtual Reality Hackathon which took place in Brisbane June 2 – 4, 2017. Next year Web3D Conference will be hosted by Poznan University of Economics and Business. Krzysztof Walczak will serve as a General Chair of the conference.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a panel discussion during an international conference IBM Watson Warsaw Summit 2017 – Redefinnig your business.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an international conference The European Christian Internet Conference ECIC 2017 - Public Space Extended Reality and Public Theology, which took place in Falenty near Warsaw. Prof. Cellary gave a keynote speech entitled „Christians in Virtual Reality”.
http://www.ecic.mobi/