News

May 22, 2012

Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, received a grant from European Commission covering costs of participation in the ICT Proposers' Day 2012 which will take place in Warsaw, September 26 - 27, 2012. The event is organized by the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the EC, in cooperation with the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Polish National Contact Point. During the conference a  new Information and Communication Technologies Work Programme for 2013 will be presented.

May 17, 2012

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day celebration which took place in Warsaw. He participated in two events: a close meeting of Government and Parliament members with ICT business and research representatives, and in a World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Gala. During the gala the  InfoStar prizes for exceptional achievements in building information society in Poland were awarded. Prof. Cellary is a laureate of InfoStar 2008.

April 22, 2012

Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, has successfully completed the 8 weeks W3C DEV CAMPUS online course "Mobile Web 1: Best Practices". The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international organization developing protocols and quidelines of the Web.

April 11, 2012

The ABB Group has annouced the results of the 1st ABB Software Research Grant Program. Over 65 applications from all the world have been submitted to the contest. After two rounds evaluation process only three projects were selected. Among three winning proposals is a project submitted by Jacek Chmielewski, PhD, entitled „Ubiquitous mobile user interfaces for industrial monitoring and control applications UbiqUI”. The winner receives 50 K USD grant for research combined with industrial application.

April 9 - 11, 2012

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended as an invited panelist an international conference The 5th Bahrain International eGovernment Forum BIEF 2012, which took place in Manama, the Kingdom of Bahrain under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Mohamed Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chaiman of the Supreme Committee of ITC in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Prof. Cellary presented a lecture entitled „Privacy in the light of Future of IT Technologies” in the framework of the Cyber Law and Public Private Partnership Workshop joined with the main conference.

March 27, 2012

Krzysztof Walczak, PhD, has been elected as a member of the new Executive Committee of The EuroVR Association , 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.

March 22 - 23, 2012

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a second CHIST-ERA Evaluation Panel of the Call 2011 for the topic "From Data to New Knowledge". CHIST-ERA is a European network of national research funding agencies on ICT which is supported by the Future and Emerging Technologies programme of the European Commission. The second evaluation session took place in Paris, in the premises of the Agence National de Recherche.

March 6 - 8, 2012

Prof. Wojciech Cellary attended an international conference Renaissance for eGovernance & Europe 2012 - Envisioning conference - Futures of eGovernance in Central Eastern Europe, which was held in Bled (Slovenia) from 6th  to 8th  March, 2012. The conference was organized by a governmental organization Centre for eGovernance Development. Prof. Cellary has been invited to represent Poland during a session entitled Country’s Presentation: Renaissance for eGovernance & CEE - Good Practice Case Resolution. Prof. Cellary presented Polish good practice case „e-Court - Electronic Writ-of-Payment Proceeding”.

February 13, 2012

Results of the 13th edition of the Golden Mouse Contest announced! The contest was addressed to the 1st year students of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy. The purpose of the contest was to reward the best business project that promotes use of new Internet and mobile technologies in the business process chain. The main criteria of the evaluation were: business model, use of new technologies for organization and management transformation, quality of design. The prizes were founded by Bank Zachodni WBK S.A., the main sponsor of the contest. The results were announced during the reward ceremony hosted by Prof. Wojciech Cellary, in the presence of the representatives of sponsors, and the Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy, prof. Emil Panek. The First Prize went to a team Mateusz Jóźwicki i Patryk Kamiński for a projekt entitled e-ROOm

January 20, 2012

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a CHIST-ERA Evaluation Panel of the Call 2011 for the topic "From Data to New Knowledge". CHIST-ERA is a European network of national research funding agencies on ICT which is supported by the Future and Emerging Technologies programme of the European Commission. The evaluation session took place in Paris, in Agence National de Recherche premises.