Welcome to the Department of Information Technology

The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is part of the Faculty of Informatics and e-Economy of the Poznan University of Economics and Business. The Department is composed of 12 members: 1 full professor, 3 associate professors, 1 assistant professors, 1 senior lecturer, 5 research assistants and 1 administrative person. The Department also takes care of 2 Ph.D. students. The research members have technical qualifications in computer science and engineering. The head of DIT is Professor Krzysztof Walczak. More about DIT »

News Chronicle

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".

October 27th, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at the 1st Symposium on Business Informatics in Central and Eastern Europe which will take place in Vienna within February 25-27, 2009, in conjunction with the 9th International Business Informatics Conference.

October 25th, 2008

Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in The 14th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia VSMM’08, which was held in Limassol (Cyprus) within October 20-25, 2008. Dr. Walczak presented a paper entitled "VR-BML: Behaviour Modelling Language for Configurable VR Applications", which received the 2nd Best Full Paper Award. Dr. Walczak also chaired two plenary sessions: "Image Analysis and Reconstruction" and "ICT in CH Museums". Dr. Walczak participated - as a member - in a working meeting of the Board of The International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia VSMM.

October 24th, 2008

Dr, Wojciech Wiza participated in the INTUITION Knowledge Base Meeting which was held in Malaga (Spain) from October 21st to October 22nd, 2008. "Knowledge Base" is a wiki-based website, providing a place for the virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) commmunity to gather and exchange information and knowledge. This has been developed by the network of excellence on virtual reality and virtual environments for future workplaces (INTUITION).

October 23rd, 2008

Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in a working session of the Scientific Council of the Institut TELECOM (former Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications), bringing in the most prestigious French higher schools in the field of of information and communication science and technology: TELECOM ParisTech, TELECOM Bretagne, TELECOM SudParis, TELECOM Ecole de Management, TELECOM Lille1, and Institut Eurecom. Prof. Cellary has been served as a member of Scientific Council of the Institut TELECOM since 2006. The session was held in Paris.

October 18th, 2008

The Department of Information Technology hosted The 6th IFIP International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods VG’08 and The 4th International ODRL Workshop. The conferences were held from October 16th to October 18th in Main Building of Poznan University of Economics. The participants came from Germany, French Polynesia, South Africa and Poland. The conference Virtual Goods was organized under Honorable Patronage of PUE Rector and Mayor of the City of Poznan.  

More about VG'2008 can be found at: http://www.virtualgoods.org

October 14th, 2008

Dr. hab. Jarogniew Rykowski received PUE Rector Award for oustanding research achievements in academic year 2007/2008. He was awarded for an habilitation disertation entitled Personalized Access to Heterogeneous Distributed Information Sources by Means of Software Agents.