Mr. Jakub Flotyński defended successfuly his PhD thesis entitled “Semantic Modeling of Interactive 3D Content”, written under the supervision of Prof. Krzysztof Walczak. The public defence of the dissertation took place on December 8th, 2015 at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics. The Faculty Council rewarded Mr. Flotyński’s dissertation with the highest grade Approved with Distinction.
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Jarogniew Rykowski, PhD, attended an international conference The 8th International Conference on Central European Electronic Card CEEC 2015, which was held in Warsaw, December 3 – 4, 2015, under the patronage of the National Bank of Poland, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, the Polish Bank Association. During the conference prof. Rykowski presented a paper entitled „Payments in the Internet of Things”.
Jarogniew Rykowski, PhD, participated at an international conference The 2nd World Conference on Intelligent Building Technology and Multimedia Management IBTMM 2015, which took place in Cracow (Poland). During the conference prof. Rykowski presented a paper entitled „Trusted Geolocation Beacon” (authors: Rykowski, J., M., Nomańczuk). He chaired also a Second Plenary Session on Smart Cities.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an international conference The 16th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering WISE 2015, which was held in Miami (Florida, USA) from November 1st to November 3rd, 2015. Prof. Cellary served as a Program Co-Chair, he also chaired a session entitled "Web Information Extraction". Prof. Cellary served on a jury of WISE Best Paper Award. He awarded the winners on behalf of the jury at a gala dinner.
Jarogniew Rykowski, PhD, participated as an invited expert in "2nd Workshop for Doctoral Students and Young Researchers in IT", organized in Kazimierz Dolny by Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, addressed to current PhD students, recipients of the Diamond Grants of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and young researchers involved in IT research towards their PhD degree.
During a ceremony of PUE PhD’s promotion the Rector, prof. Marian Gorynia, conferred Rector Awards for outstanding achievements in academic year 2014/2015. The recipients are:
Prof. Wojciech Cellary – 1st Grade Team Achievement Award for impact of his work in PUE team developing The Educational Center of Electronic Services;
Adam Wójtowicz, Ph.D. – 2nd Grade Individual Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in research and publications in recognized international journals;
Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, Jakub Flotyński, M.Sc., Dariusz Rumiński, M.Sc. – 2nd Grade Team Achievement Award for outstanding achievements in research and publications in recognized international journals;
Sergiusz Strykowski, Ph.D. – 2nd Grade Team Achievement Award for creative activity in a PUE Team for International Accreditations.
Warmest congratulations!
Rafał Wojciechowski, Ph.D. attended an international conference The 12th EuroVR Conference 2015, which took place in Lecco (Italy), October 15 - 16, 2015. During the conference Rafał Wojciechowski presented a paper entitled "Distributed Architecture of Secure Semantic AR Services" (authors: Wójtowicz, A., R. Wojciechowski, K. Walczak and D. Rumiński. The EuroVR is the European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, an international non-profit association designed to bring together all those interested in VR/AR technologies and to pursue the development and further deployment of such technologies.
Willy Picard, PhD, participated in an international conference The 16th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises PRO-VE 2015, which took place in Albi (France) from October 5 to October 7, 2015 Dr. Willy Picard served as a Program Committee Co-Chair of the conference. During a session entited “Agility and Resilience in Collaborative Networks” Dr. Picard presented a paper „Resilient and Robust Human-Agent Collectives: a Network Perspective”. He served as a chair of the session entitled “Collaboration Frameworks”. Dr. Picard attended as a founder member The 2015 SOCOLNET General Assembly, coinciding with PRO-VE conference. He participated in a special session on Future Trends in Collaborative Networks.
Adam Wójtowicz, PhD, participated in The 1st Annual Public Policy Conference – European Cybersecurity Forum CYBERSEC 2015 organized in Cracow by Kościuszko Institute under the patronage of the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Administration and Digitization, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and National Security Office. The CYBERSEC forum is the first of its kind in Poland and one of just a few regular public policy conferences in Europe devoted to the strategic issues of cyberspace and cybersecurity. Adam Wójtowicz participated in a debate during a session entitled “Future”.
Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, participated in The 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology ISAT 2015, which took place in Karpacza (Poland). During the conference Jacek Chmielewski presented a paper entitled „Key Requirements and New Architecture for Context-aware Web-based Device-independent Multi-device Applications”.
Prof. Krzysztof Walczak has been nominated by Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education as a member of a ministerial expert group for the development of IT infrastructure for research. The kick-off meeting of the group took place in Warsaw in the Ministry premises.
Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, attended an international conference The 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services SoFAST-WS 2015, organized under the umbrella of The Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems FedCSIS 2015, which took place in Łódź (Poland). During the conference Dr. Jacek Chmielewski presented a paper entitled “Run-time UI Adaptation in the Context of the Device-Independent Architecture”.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated as a panelist in the discussions led by the representatives of the Polish business and government during the conference ”Innovations – the transfer of knowledge” organized in Wroclaw by KGHM Polish Copper SA and Global Compact Network Poland.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an International Conference on Mobile & Internet Banking Security IBS 2015, which took place in Giżycko (Poland). Prof. Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled “e-Privacy Violation as a Betrayal”. He chaired also a panel discussion on the top threats to mobile and Internet banking security 2015 – 2016.
Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended The 3rd International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering HSSE 2015, organized under The 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2015 umbrella. The conferences took place in Las Vegas (USA) from July 26 to July 30, 2015. Prof. Cellary served as a Co-Chair of the HSSE 2015 Scientific Advisory Board. He gave also a lecture entitled “e-Service Dominant Logic” during a session “Smart Service Systems: Augmenting and Scaling Human Expertise with Cognitive Assistants".