The Department of Information Technology hosted prof. Sheng-Tzong Cheng from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng‐Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan. Prof. Cheng also serves as the vice director of the Quantum Computing Research Center in NCKU. His research interests include design and performance analysis of mobile computing, wireless communications, multimedia, quantum computing, and real‐time systems.

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

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. 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.