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Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in The 8th IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society i3E 2008 which took place in Tokyo from September 24 to September 26th, 2008. Prof. Cellary served as a member of two Committees: Stearing Committee and Liaison Committe. Prof. Cellary also visited The United Nations University in Tokyo, he was hosted by Vice Rector, Prof. Govindan Parayil, Dr. Srikantha Herath, Senior Academic Programme Officer, and Dr. Tomasz Janowski, Senior Research Fellow, UNU-IIST and Head of the Center for Electronic Governance at UNU-IIST. The main goal of the wisit was to discuss a common initiative to establish a UNU Institute on Electronic Governance in Poznan.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 14th Forum of Teleinformatics which was held in Legionowo, September 18-19, 2008. Prof. Cellary gave a lecture “Beyond limits – integrated e-services for administration and business”. He served also as a member of the jury of the Marek Car Award 2008 – as a laureate 2007.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled “New electronic methods in teaching” for teachers from Konin region.

The Depertment of Information Technology hosted The 9th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises PRO-VE 2008, which was held form September 8th to September 10th. Almost 90 participants coming from 20 countries attended the conference. During several sessions 66 selected papers were presented and published in conference proceedings edited by Springer. In the framework of the PRO-VE conference three co-related events were organized: Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Museum, Special Session on Networking Mobile Virtual Knowledge, and Brainstorming Session entitled Collaborative Networks in Extending Active Life of Retired Professionals.

More about the conference can be found at: http://www.pro-ve.org 

 
Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to visit Telcordia Technologies Inc, in Piscataway (NY, USA). Prof. Cellary was a guest of Dr. Marek Rusinkiewicz, Vice-President of Telcordia Technologies. During the visit prof. Cellary discussed the preparation of joint proposals to be submitted to the 7th Research Framework Program of the European Union. He also discussed the collaboration on the join R&D initiatives between Telcordia Poland and the Department of Information Technology in the areas of network security, telematics and healthcare informatics. Prof. Cellary gave also a seminar for Telcordia research staff presenting current results of research of the Department of Information Technology. He met also many researchers from the following departments: Universal Platform for Telematics Applications, Automotive Networking and Telematics, Telematics Standards Activities, End-to-End Security for Vehicular Networking. The visit lasted from August 27 to September 6th, 2008.

Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski was invited to join the Interdisciplinary Group for International Cooperation – an advisory body to the Minister for Science and Higher Education.

Dr. Wojciech Wiza visited the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He presented the ARCO virtual museum technology for museums which enables to create 3D Virtual Exhibitions on the Web.

Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated in two international conferences: The 13th International Symposium on Web 3D Technology Web3D'08 (August 9-10, 2008) and The 35th SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (August 11-15, 2008). The conferences took place in Los Angeles, California, USA. During the Web3D'08 conference Dr Walczak presented a paper entitled Structured Design of Interactive VR Applications.

More about Web3D 2008: http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/

More about SIGGRAPH 2008: http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/

Dr. Wojciech Wiza met Director of Salt Mine in Wieliczka. The Mine is a part of National Museum in Cracov. Dr Wiza presented the ARCO virtual museum technology for museums which enables to create 3D Virtual Exhibitions on the Web.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a panel discussion organized by the Ministry of Interior and Administration entitled "Information Society - four years after accession to the European Union. Strategie for Poland. The honorary guest of the debate was Fabio Colasanti, European Commission Director General for Information Society and Media. Prof. Cellary gave a speech entitled "Information Society in Poland - Chance and Necessity".

Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to join the Program Committee of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering ENASE 2009 to be held in Milan (Italy), May 6-10, 2009.

Mr. Rafał Wojciechowski defended successfuly his PhD Thesis entitled "Modeling Interactive Educational Scenarios in a Mixed Reality Environment". The public defence took place at The Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of The Gdańsk University of Technology.

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled "Challenges of Virtual Enterprise Management" at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus (Germany).

Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited by Laboratoire d'Analyse et Modélisation de Systèmes pour l'Aide à la Décision LAMSADE (Université Paris Dauphine) to particpate in a public defence of Mr. Khaled Jouini PhD Thesis entitled: "Optimisation de la localité spatiale des données temporelles et multiversion". Prof. Cellary served as an external reviewer of the Thesis.

Telcordia Technologies Inc, a global leader in the development of IP, wireline and mobile telecommunications software and services, has opened a research center in Poznan, Poland. The Poznan Technology Research Center will cooperate with the biggest univiersities in Poznan: Poznan University of Economics, Poznań University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University. The opening ceremony was held on June 30, 2008 in the presence of many distinguished guests: Rectors of PUE, PUT and AMU, President of the City of Poznań, Telcordia directors, Attaché of the USA Embassy in Poland, local and governmental authorities, Poznan industry and science representatives. An inaugurational lecture entitled "The Most Important Question in Science: Does P=NP?" was given at the Poznan University of Economics by Prof. Richard J. Lipton from Georgia Institute of Technology.