Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in The 8th Conference "Virtual University - Model, Tools, Practice - VU 2008" which was organized by Center of Open and Distance Education CODE (Warsaw University of Technology), Warsaw University and Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology. The main topic of 2008 edition was "Open universities, open resources, open access". During the conference Prof. Cellary had a lecture on e-Learning in Knowledge-Based Economy.
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Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a conference organized by The "Poland 2000 Plus" Forecast Commitee affiliated with The Presidium of The Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The main topic of the session was "National Foresight - Results and Problems".
Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to join The Council of Media and Computer Education, an advisory body to Minister of National Education.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the Chapter of the Marek Car Award. Prof. Cellary is a member of the jury as a laureate of the last edition of the Marek car Award 2007.
Dr. Jacek Chmielewski participated in The 22nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2008, which was held in Nicosia (Cyprus) from June 3rd to June 6th, 2008. Dr. Chmielewski presented a paper entitled "Architectural Modeling with Reusable Interactive 3D Objects".
Dr. Jacek Chmielewski participated in The 22nd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2008 which was hel in Nicosia (Cyprus) from June 3rd to June 6th, 2008. Dr. Chmielewski presented a paper entitled "Architectural Modeling with Reusable Interactive 3D Objects".
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the "Poland 2000 Plus" Forecast Commitee affiliated with The Presidium of The Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Prof . Cellary had a speech "A Role of IT Technology in EU and Poland".
Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Dr. Jacek Chmielewski participated in The IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction HSI'08, which was held in Cracow (Poland) from May 25th to May 27th, 2008. During the conference Dr. Krzysztof Walczak presented a paper entitled "Flex-VR: Configurable 3D Web Applications", and Dr. Jacek Chmielewski presented a paper "Interaction Descriptor for 3D Objects”.
Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Dr. Jacek Chmielewski attended The 1st International Conference on Information Technology IT'08, which took place in Gdańsk from May 18 to May 21, 2008. The IT'08 Conference was organized by Gdańsk University of Technology and IEEE Poland Section. During the conference Dr. Krzysztof Walczak presented a paper entitled "Dynamic Composition of Behavior-rich VR Content". and Dr. Jacek Chmielewski presented a paper "Metadata Model for Interactions of 3D Objects”.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 3rd Congress on Electronic Economy organized in Warsaw by the Polish Bank Association. Prof. Cellary, together with Mr. Krzysztof Pietraszkiewicz, President of the Association, presented an inaugural lecture "Innovation as a Base of Economy Development". More about the congress can by found at the Polish Bank Association pages.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary received an InfoStat 2008 Statuette - an award of The Polish Information Processing Society presented at the World Information Society Day for outstanding achievements for information society development in Poland. The InfoStat Statuettes 2008 were presented during traditional Information Society Award Gala which took place in Warsaw on May 15th. The UNESCO, UNITED NATIONS and International Telecommunication Union/ ITU offered their Honourable Auspices for the celebrations of the World Information Society Day 2008 in Poland. The Information Society Award Gala was broadcast live on the Internet.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in an international conference "i2010 - Information Society at the Crossroads", held in Brdo (Slovenia) from May 13 to May 14, 2008, organized by The Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU together with the European Commission. The conference was dedicated to the EU's i2010 Information society strategy.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated in a conference on e-Business, organized by National Foresight Program "Polska 2020" together with Poznan University of Economics. Prof. Cellary chaired a panel discussion on Foresight 2020 Vision nad reality of business and administration. Dr Walczak gave a lecture entitled "Virtual Reality Applications in Museums".
Dr Jarogniew Rykowski participated in a National Conference "Internet as a Platform for Commerce Globalization", organized in Poznan by PUE Student Research Group e-Commerce. Dr Jarogniew Rykowski gave an invited lecture on Agent Technology.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in I European Funds Forum - Results, Possibilities, Perspectives. During the forum a conference organized by LEWIATAN (Polish Confederation of Private Employers) Innovative Development - European Funds for Entreprises took place. Prof. Cellary participated in a panel discussion on challenges for Polish economy, science and entreprises. He had a talk on innovation in Polish economy.