News

September 17th, 2008

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

September 11th, 2008

The Depertment of Information Technology hosted The 9th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises PRO-VE 2008, which was held form September 8th to September 10th. Almost 90 participants coming from 20 countries attended the conference. During several sessions 66 selected papers were presented and published in conference proceedings edited by Springer. In the framework of the PRO-VE conference three co-related events were organized: Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Museum, Special Session on Networking Mobile Virtual Knowledge, and Brainstorming Session entitled Collaborative Networks in Extending Active Life of Retired Professionals.

More about the conference can be found at: http://www.pro-ve.org

September 6th, 2008

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.

September 1st, 2008

Dr. Jarogniew Rykowski was invited to join the Interdisciplinary Group for International Cooperation – an advisory body to the Minister for Science and Higher Education.

August 27th, 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.

August 14th, 2008

Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated in two international conferences: The 13th International Symposium on Web 3D Technology Web3D'08 (August 9-10, 2008) and The 35th SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (August 11-15, 2008). The conferences took place in Los Angeles, California, USA. During the Web3D'08 conference Dr Walczak presented a paper entitled Structured Design of Interactive VR Applications.

More about Web3D 2008: http://www.web3d.org/conferences/web3d2008/

More about SIGGRAPH 2008: http://www.siggraph.org/s2008/

August 11th, 2008

Dr. Wojciech Wiza met Director of Salt Mine in Wieliczka. The Mine is a part of National Museum in Cracov. Dr Wiza presented the ARCO virtual museum technology for museums which enables to create 3D Virtual Exhibitions on the Web.

July 24th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a panel discussion organized by the Ministry of Interior and Administration entitled "Information Society - four years after accession to the European Union. Strategie for Poland.  The honorary guest of the debate was Fabio Colasanti, European Commission Director General for Information Society and Media. Prof. Cellary gave a speech entitled "Information Society in Poland - Chance and Necessity".

July 17th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to join the Program Committee of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering ENASE 2009 to be held in Milan (Italy), May 6-10, 2009.

July 15th, 2008

Mr. Rafał Wojciechowski defended successfuly his PhD Thesis entitled "Modeling Interactive Educational Scenarios in a Mixed Reality Environment". The public defence took place at The Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of The Gdańsk University of Technology.