Prof. Krzysztof Walczak attended The 20th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia VSMM 2014, which was held in Hong Kong from 9 to 12 December, 2014. During the conference prof. Walczak presented a paper entitled „Building Contextual Augmented Reality Environments with Semantics” (authors: Walczak, K., D. Rumiński, J. Flotyński). He also participated in four workshops preceding the VSMM conference: Workshop "Motion Capture MOCAMP", Workshop "Focus 3D Laser Scanning FARO", Aerial Dron Workshop, and Workshop "Use & Re-use of Data".
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Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled "Education in the age of tablets" to the participants of a scientific Seminar at the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow, a Polish scientific institution founded in 1872. Since 2002 monthly Seminars of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences have been organised. Currently, the leading topic is Patriotism yesterday and today.
Adam Wójtowicz, PhD, attended two international events: an annual meeting of the partners of the project Ed.2.0 Work (European network for the integration of Web 2.0 in education and work), which was hosted by University of West Scotland in Paisley (November 19, 2014), and The European Conference in the Applications of Enabling Technologies ECEAT 2014, which took place in IET Glasgow Teacher Building on November 20 -21, 2014.
Wojciech Wiza, PhD, participated as an independent expert of the European Commission in a working session evaluating the proposals submitted in response to the HORIZON 2020 call for proposals. The meeting took place in Brussels, in the EC Research Executive Agency Premises.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended a conference The 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance „The Rise of Data Post-2015 – Empowered Citizens, Accountable Institutions” ICEGOV 2014, which took place in Guimaraes (Portugal). Prof. Cellary gave an invited keynote speech entitled „Strategic Impact of Cloud Computing on the Public Sector”, he also participated in a panel discussion following the lecture.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended two events organized in Warsaw by United Nations Global Compact Network Poland: an inauguration meeting of the UN GCNP Steering Committee, and inauguration of „UN Global Compact Yearbook 2014” as a part of celebration of United Nations Day in Poland. Prof. Cellary has been invited to join the UN GCNP Steering Commitee as an expert on electronic commerce.He is also an author of a paper published in "UN Global Compact Yearbook 2014", entitled "Economy of Creativity".
The Rector of Poznań University of Economics awarded Willy Picard, PhD, with the annual Rector's Individual Award for outstanding achievements in research.
The Department of Information Technology hosted Prof. Joseph E. Urban from Texas Tech University, Lubbock (Texas, USA). Prof. Urban gave an lecture entitled “The CyberCritical Project for Research and Education in Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure” to the staff of the Department of Information Technology and the Department of Information Systems.
Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, attended The 3rd International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science ICIEIS 2014, which was hel in Lodz (Poland) on September 22 - 24, 2014. During the conference Jacek Chmielewski presented a paper entitled “Comparative User Experience Analysis of PC Gaming and Cloud Gaming” (authors: Szmelich, L., and J. Chmielewski).
Mr. Dariusz Rumiński participated in a Doctoral Consortium as a part of the International Symposium on Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality ISMAR 2014, which was held in Munich (Germany) on September 8 - 12, 2014. Mr. Rumiński presented a paper entitled „Semantic Contextual Augmented Reality Environments” (authors: Rumiński, D., and K. Walczak). Walczak.
Mr. Daniel Wilusz participated in an international conference The Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems FedCSIS 2014, which was held in Warsaw on 7 - 10 September, 2014. Mr. Wilusz presented a paper entitled “Comparison of architectures for service management in IoT and sensor networks by means of OSGi and REST services” (authors: Wilusz, D., J. Rykowski).
Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to join the Scientific Advisory Board of the Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNIG).
Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, has been reelected as a member of the EuroVR Association Executive Committee. The European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality EuroVR is a non-profit international, scientific Association designed to bring together all those interested in VR/AR Technologies and to pursue the development and further deployment of such technologies. The EuroVR Association was founded as a continuation of the INTUITION Network of Excellence ( EC FP6 NoE) to take up and expand the work initiated as a self-sustainable, independent organization.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to join a Steering Committee of The United Nations Global Compact Network Poland. UN Global Compact is a platform for business and non-business entities to proactively network and engage in areas of human rights, labour, environment, anti-corruption and contributing to UN goals in order to achieve the common objectives of building a sustainable and inclusive global economy. The main objectives of the Steering Committee are to promote Global Compact and corporate social responsibility as well as to encourage companies to accept and put into practice the principles of Global Compact. The Steering Committee also implements joint projects to solve specific problems in various social areas.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended The 2nd International Conference on The Human Side of Service Engineering HSSE 2014, which took place in Kraków (Poland) from July 19 to July 23, 2014, under The 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2014 umbrella. Prof. Cellary served as a General Co-Chair of the HSSE 2014 Conference.