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February 4th, 2009

Results of the 10th jubilee 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 (notebooks Asus Eee PC 900, Smartphones Asus P320, iPods Touch 2gen8GB and MP4s Eon Cineo8) were founded by sponsors: Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. and eXant Software Polska. The results were announced during the reward ceremony hosted by Prof. Wojciech Cellary, in the presence of the representatives of sponsors, Mr. Milosz Brakoniecki, Mr. Damian Ludke, Mr. Piotr Jeske (Bank Zachodni WBK S.A.), Mr. Jakub Hakało (eXant Software Polska), and the Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations, Prof. Maciej Żukowski, and prof. Dorota Appenzeller, vice-dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy. The First Prize went to a team Rafał Kędzierski and Marcin Kos, the Second Prize went to Sławomir Leszczyński and Dominik Modrzejewsk,  and the Third Prize went to a team Krzysztof Wrzesiński i Maciej Żytkowiak.

January 19th, 2009

Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture on strategic impact of administration to the staff of Information Society Department in Ministry of Interior and Administration.

January 9th, 2009

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a conference "Knowledge Based Society - Myth or Chance for Poland" which was held in Warsaw in Polish Parliament premises. Prof. Cellary chaired a panel discussion on the role of public administration.

December 8th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to be a member of the International Program Committee (IPC) for the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2009), which is to take place in Cambridge, United Kingdom from July 13, 2009 to July 15, 2009.

December 5th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance ICEGOV 2008 which was held in Cairo (Egypt) from December 1st to December 4th, 2008. Prof. Cellary served as a General Chair of the conference, he gave also a tutorial entitled "Strategic Impact of e-Governance on Economy and Society. Prof. Cellary chaired also a session during Workshop Electronic Governance - Value.

November 28th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a biennial ICT Event 2008: "I" is to the Future (formerly called the "IST Event"), the most important forum for discussing research and public policy in information and communication technologies at European level. The conference took place in Lyon (France) from November 24 to 28, 2008. The ICT Event is organised by the European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society and Media and is usually hosted by the current Presidency of the European Union. Prof. Cellary participated in the ICT 2008 as an invited member of Polish delegation.  

November 27th, 2008

Dr. Jacek Chmielewski participated in The 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services iiWAS 2008 held in conjunction with The 6th International Conference on Adavances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia MoMM 2008, which took place in Linz (Austria) from November 24 to 26, 2008. Dr. Chmielewski presented a paper entitled "Interaction Interfaces for Unrestricted Multimedia Interaction Descriptions".

November 22nd, 2008

The Department of Information Technology has organized one-day training devoted to the Conveyor v.2 software, an economical and simple-to-use multimedia authoring system for museum exhibitions, designed in the framework of the MM4ALL Project financed by European Commission Program CULTURE 2000. The training was conducted by Nicolas Tyson from The Brunswick Town Charitable Trust and Dr. Wojciech Wiza from DIT. The trainig was addressed to the staff of The National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa, Polish History Museum in Warsaw and Poznan Archaeological Museum.

November 14th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to serve as a Program Committee member of  The 8th Wuhan International Conference on E-Business WHICEB 2009, which will be held in Wuhan, China, May 30-31, 2009.

November 8th, 2008

Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski participated in the 8th International Conference on Transport - Systems - Telematics TST 2008, which was held in Katowice-Ustron, Poland, from November 5th to November 8th, 2008. During the conference dr Rykowski presented a paper "CB-NET – nowa sieć publicznej drogowej komunikacji radiowej".