Archiwum:

2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

December 19^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited talk Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging on in the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Science.

December 16^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference E-government - aims and possibilities. Prof. Cellary presented a paper on the role of the administration in the global information society and electronic economy.

December 13^th, 2002 Mr. Willy Picard defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Multi-Facet Analalysis of E-Negotiaitions at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Paris. The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Wojciech Cellary.

December 11^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference Polish Small and Medium Size Entreprises versus European Integration, organized by the Polish Society of Economics. Prof. Cellary presented a paper entitled SME's in Electronic Economy.

December 9^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference on the role and place of museums in friendly information society which was held in Lodz. Prof. Cellary presented the results of the european project ARCO. More about ARCO http://www.arco-web.org

December 5^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a lecture for the Senat and Professors of the Wroclaw University of Technology on the role of education in the global information society.

December 2^nd, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Jacek Chmielewski participated in the technical meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO hosted by Commissariat de l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in Paris.

November 26^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the National Logistics Forum on Costs Management in Logistics, which was held in Warsaw. Prof. Cellary presented a keynote speech entitled Poland and the Global Information Society. Logging on.. More about the conference http://www.oditk.com.pl/forum_logistykow_2002.htm

November 25^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Mr. Willy Picard participated in the conference Inauguration of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union organized by the State Committee for Scientific Research. The President of the Republic of Poland, Mr Aleksander Kwasniewski, has granted his Honorary Patronage to this event. The opening welcome was delivered by the Polish Minister of Science, Mr Michal Kleiber and the EU Commissioner for Research, Mr Philippe Busquin. The Warsaw Conference was addressed to researchers, scientists and business representatives from the Associated States and other Central and Eastern European countries interested in participation in the FP6. More about the conference http://www.6pr.pl

November 20^th, 2002 Prof. Cellary participated in the regional conference on Global Information Society in Poland organized by the Marshal Office of Dolny Slask Province and United Nations Development Programme. Prof. Cellary presented main topics of the United Nations Development Report Poland and the Global Information Society: Looging on.

November 18^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a lecture for the employees of Marshal Office of Wielkopolska Province entitled Role of Administration in the Global Information Society.

November 16^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the 23rd annual COMDEX Fall, the leading global technology marketplace, concluded Friday, November 22, 2002. The six-day event featured the usual COMDEX blend of innovation, education and opportunities to network with peers and witness cutting edge technologies. This year"s show began on Sunday, November 16th with a keynote address by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. During the event a team of the partners of the european project ARCO demonstrated ARCO second prototype technology. More about COMDEX 2002 http://www.comdex.org

November 13^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference European Union - invitation to competitiveness organized by Polish Confederation of Private Employers under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Poland, Mr Aleksander Kwasniewski. A special guest of the conference was Mr Gunter Verheugen, Commissioner Responsible for the Enlargement of the European Union.

November 13^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave a lecture on education in global information society for staff and students of Warsaw University of Technology.

November 7^th, 2002 The Poznan University of Economics hosted a regional conference on Global Information Society in Poland organized by the Marshal Office of Wielkopolska Province and United Nations Development Programme. The theme was based on the United Nations Development Report Poland and the Global Information Society - Looging on. The conference was addressed to the representatives of local government, education and business in the Wielkopolska region. Read the Report http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl

November 4^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to serve as member of the program committee for the Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies EC-WEB 2003 Conference to be held in Prague, September 2003.

October 30^th, 2002 Mr. Oskar Huminiecki had a public presentation, entitled Advantages of using the XML-based data exchange file format in the Centre for VLSI and Computer Graphics, School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex (United Kingdom).

October 29^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the session of the Science, Education and Sport Committee of the Senate of the Republic of Poland devoted to the challenges of global information society for primary and secondary schools. In the session participated also the Vice-minister of National Education and Sport, Prof. Tomasz Goban-Klas, and Directors of Education Departments of Province Offices. Prof. Cellary gave a lecture Poland and Global Information Society - a Challenge for Education.

October 28^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been nominated a member of the PUE Senat Committee for Research. Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki has been nominated a member of two Committies: for Equipment and for Intelectual and Industrial Property Protection.

October 23^rd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference on Information Society, organized in Plock by the Mayor of Plock City and United Nations Development Programme. Prof. Cellary presented the UNDP Report Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging On.

October 22^nd, 2002 Mr. Oskar Huminiecki had a public presentation, entitled WEB Questionnaire System in the Centre for VLSI and Computer Graphics, School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex (United Kingdom).

October 22^nd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 3rd Congress TELEINFO organized under the auspices of the Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Prof. Cellary presented a paper A Challenge for Administration in the Global Information Society. More about the Congress http://www.teleinfo.com.pl/KONGRES/index_kongres.htm

October 21^st, 2002 Mr. Oskar Huminiecki had a public presentation, entitled Advanced 3D Studio MAX Plugins development in the Centre for VLSI and Computer Graphics, School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Sussex (United Kingdom).

October 21^st, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference on Information Society, organized by Marshall of Malopolska Province, United Nations Development Programme and ComArch in Cracow. Prof. Cellary presented the UNDP Report Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging On. More about the conference http://www.malopolska.pl/konferencja/index.html

October 16^th, 2002 The 4th meeting of the Poznan Java User Group, headed by Willy Picard, took place at the Department of Information Technology. Meeting topic was An Introduction to Java. The talk was given by Jedrzej Jajor and Marcin Zienkowicz. The next meeting will be on November 5th, and the subject will be Swing. Everybody is invited (meetings are open and free). More information can be found on the Poznan Java User Group website http://www.jug.poznan.pl/

October 16^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary presented an invited lecture Global Information Society in the framework of the 5th Science and Culture Festival which was held in Poznan from October 16 to October 19. More about the Festival http://www.5festiwal.trylion.com/

October 15^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference organized by the Senat of the Republic of Poland for presidents of Polish universities devoted to the preparation of Polish higher schools to the tranformation towards global information society. Prof. Cellary presented the UNDP Report Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging On.

October 14^th, 2002 Prof. Joseph E. Urban from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Arizona State University (USA) has visited our department. He participated at an internal seminar devoted to the presentation of DIT's research results. More about Prof. Urban http://www.eas.asu.edu/~csedept/people/faculty/joe.html

October 11^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Wojciech Wiza participated at the 1st IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact WITASI 2002 which was held in Wroclaw. Prof. Cellary was a general co-chair of the conference. Mr. Wiza presented a paper entitled Building Dynamic User Interfaces of Virtual Reality Applications with X-VRML(authors: K. Walczak, W.Wiza). More about the conference http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/call.html

October 9^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the International Conference on Information Society Technologies for Broadband Europe which was held in Bucharest (Romania). Dr. Walczak presented a paper entitled Dynamic Creation of Interactive Rich Media Contents. More about the conference http://broadband02.ici.ro

October 7^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary particpated in the 1st MOST International Conference on Technology for Mobile Society which was held on October 7-8, in Warsaw. Prof. Cellary presented a keynote speech A Challenge of Mobility. More about MOST and conference http://www.most-program.org

October 7^th, 2002 Mr. Willy Picard participated in the 2nd IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business & E-Government. The conference was held in Lisbon (Portugal). During the conference Mr. Picard presented a paper entitled Electronic Negotiations in a Highly Concurrent Environment (authors: W. Cellary, W.Picard). More about the conference http://www.siweb.info/ifip/home.html

October 6^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the Polish Fulbright Alumni Association Workshop on Fund Raising Strategies within International Scientific Cooperation. Fulbright Alumni Experience which was held in Ciazen near Konin. Prof. Cellary presented a paper entitled Global Information Society. More about PFAA http://pc58.ibspan.waw.pl/~nieckula/fulbright/

October 4^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the ceremony of inauguration of the academic year 2002/2003 in our Alma Mater. During this ceremony he has been decorated with a Gold Cross of Merit by Krystyna Lybacka, Minister of National Education and Sport.

October 3^rd, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak received an Individual Award for Achievements in Research from Rector of the Poznan University of Economics. Dr. Walczak has been awarded for his doctoral dissertation entitled "Database Modeling of Virtual Reality".

October 3^rd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary has been invited to be a member of the Program Committee of the 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2003 which will be held in Prague on September 2003. http://www.dexa.org/dexa2003/

October 2^nd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Ms. Karolina Mzyk from UNDP met in Wroclaw Mr. Janusz Pezda, Vice-Marshal of the Dolnoslaskie Voivodeship. The subject of the meeting was organization of the regional conference on global information society.

October 1^st, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Ms. Karolina Mzyk from UNDP met Mr. Bogdan Zastawny, Member of the Board of the Wielkopolska Voivodeship. The subject of the meeting was organization of the regional conference on global information society.

October 1^st, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki has been nominated for three years a director of the Remote Studying Center of the Poznan University of Economics in Konin.

September 30^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary met in Warsaw Prof. Michal Kleiber, Minister of Science, Chairman of the State Committee for Scientific Research, and Dr. Krzysztof Heller, Vice-Minister responsible for telecommunications in the Ministry of Infrastructure.

September 30^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the technical meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO. The meeting was hosted by GIUNTI Labs in Sestri Levante (Italy).

September 26^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 1st Wielkopolska Economic Forum on Digital Signature. The conference was organized in Poznan by STRATEGOR Wielkopolskie Centrum Ekspertyz Finansowych (The Wielkopolska Centre for Financial Evaluations) under the auspices of the Minister of Economy. Prof. Cellary presented a paper entitled Technical Aspects of Digital Signature. More about the conference http://www.wfg.pl More about STRATEGOR http://www.strategor.pl

September 18^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 2nd Congress on e-Economy which was held in Polish Parliament premises under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski. Prof. Cellary presented the National Human Development Programme Report Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging On. More about the conference http://www.e-kongres.pl

September 18^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary met Senator Grazyna Staniszewska and Prof. Jerzy Woznicki, Honorary President of the Conference of Directors of Academic Schools in Poland. The main goal of the meeting was preparation of a special conference devoted to the role and challenges of academic schools during the transformation of Poland towards global information society.

September 18^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary met Mr. Colin Glennie, UNDP Resident, Representant and UN Resident Coordinator, and Mr. Pawel Grzesik, Assistant Resident Representative in order to discuss preparation of a sequence of regional debates in major social and economic centres in Poland. The main goal of the meeting was preparation of a special conference devoted to the role and challenges of academic schools during the transformation of Poland towards global information society.

September 17^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated as the scientific editor in the official presentation of the United Nations Development Programme Report entitled Polska w drodze do spoleczenstwa informacyjnego - raport o rozwoju spolecznym (Poland and the Global Information Society: Logging On). The ceremony took place in the Presidential Palace in Warsaw in the presence of the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, representatives of Polish Senate, Parliament, and government, as well as quests from academia, business and media. More about the ceremony http://www.prezydent.pl More about UNDP http://www.undp.org.pl Read the Report http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/nhdr2001/ Press paper: http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/wyborcza_nhdr.htm

September 9^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to be a member of the Program Committee of the 5th Asia Pacific Web Conference 2003 which will be held on April 2003 in Xi'an (China). More about the conference http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~zxf/apweb5

September 6^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to be a Program Committee Member for the Information Retrieval and Filtering (IRaF) - a special session which will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Business Information Systems in Colorado Springs (USA). More about the conference http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl

September 4^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an inauguration speech on the role of public administration in a new economy at the National School of Public Administration in Warsaw. After the inauguration ceremony, Prof. Cellary had a two hours discussion with students. More about the National School of Public Administration http://www.ksap.gov.pl

September 4^th, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki has chaired the 2nd International Workshop on Web Based Collaboration WBC'02 organized in Aix-en-Provence (France), associated with the DEXA'02 Conference. More about the workshop: http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/dexa_wbc2002/

September 2^nd, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki participated in the 13th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2002, organized in Aix-en-Provence (France). More about the conference: http://www.dexa.org

August 30^th, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki received an Award form the Rector of the Poznan University of Economics for education, research and management achievements.

August 29^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the Meeting of the Partners of the INTERKL@SA Programme under the auspices of Mr. Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission. The Meeting chaired by Senator Grazyna Staniszewska, the principal coordinator of the programme, was devoted to the problems of education for Global Information Society. More about the programme http://www.interklasa.pl

July 25^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO. The meeting was hosted by Victoria and Albert Museum in London. To visit V&A Museum see http://www.vam.ac.uk

July 4^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Jacek Chmielewski participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO which was held in Bath (UK). The meeting was hosted by the Universiy of Bath.

July 2^nd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the working session of the Task Force for a National Programme for Information Society of the INTERKL@SA Programme chaired by Senator Grazyna Staniszewska, the principal coordinator of the programme. More about the programme http://www.interklasa.pl

June 26^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference E-Poland. A Chance for Business? which was held in Warsaw. Prof. Cellary presented an invited talk Business - Citizen - Administration. Relationships in Electronic Economy.

June 19^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary met Mr. Omar Noman, a Deputy Director of Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Prof. Cellary presented him a Polish edition of the UNDP Report Poland Emerging as a Member of the Global Information Society. More about UNDP http://www.undp.org

June 17^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary represented Poland at the General Assembly of United Nations in New York devoted to "Information and Communication Technologies for Development". The meeting was opened by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In his opening address, the Secretary-General pointed to a growing consensus on the potential of ICT to promote economic growth, combat poverty eradication, and facilitate the integration of developing countries into the global economy. "Seizing the opportunities of the digital revolution is one of the most pressing challenges facing the international community," he said. "Yet, despite commendable efforts and various initiatives, we are still very far from ensuring that the benefits of ICT are available to all," Mr. Annan said. "The digital divide still yaws as widely as ever, with billions of people still unconnected to a global society which, on its side, is more and more wired." The Secretary-General said there was a real need for the many current initiatives around the world to come together, "united by a common purpose and common determination," and urged governments, civil society and the private sector to foster digital opportunities and to put ICT at the service of development. The Assembly convened the meeting to address the digital divide in the context of globalization and development, and to promote coherence and synergies between regional and international information and communication technologies initiatives. The event will also contribute to the preparation of the World Summit on the Information Society, which will be held in two phases in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis, and address the broad range of questions concerning the information society and seek a common vision and understanding of this societal transformation. More about United Nations http://www.un.org Photo galery...

June 3^rd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary had a working meeting in the Information Society Department of the Ministry of Infrastructure.

May 28^th, 2002 Results of the Golden Mouse Contest announced! This was the third edition of the contest entitled Golden Mouse open for students of the 1st year of studies at the Management Faculty of the Poznan University of Economics. The purpose of the contest is to reward the best web site on business issues created by students. The jury consisted of DIT members and representatives of business sponsors. The main criteria of the evaluation were: business model, quality of design and technical reliability. This year over 650 web sites were submitted. The prizes (notebook Presario, computer with a monitor, scanner, color printer, mice and mobile phones) were founded by Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. , TALEX SA and IDEA POP. The results were announced during the Reward Ceremony conducted by Prof. W. Cellary in the presence of the representatives of sponsors and the vice-president of the university, Prof. Jan Sobiech. The First Prize won Maciej Zakrzewski for the web site Thunder. More about the Contest and the winners: http://student.kti.ae.poznan.pl

May 17^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in The World Telecommunication Day (WTD), a prestigious event which, following many year's tradition, is organized by the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers in co-operation with the Ministry of Infrastructure. The International Telecommunication Union based in Geneva has chosen as this year's celebrations theme: ICT for all: empowering people to cross the digital divide. Prof. Cellary participated at the Discussion Panel named ICT - Today and Tomorrow: The Technology - the Market - the Society. More about the WTD http://www.sep.com.pl

May 16^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference Telework - a Chance for Success in Business, organized in Poznan by TEB Consulting. Prof. Cellary presented an invited talk on Telework in Global Information Society. More about the conference http://www.consulting.teb.pl

May 15^th, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki participated in the meeting with teaching coordinators from the Turku Polytechnic in Finland concerning future collaboration between the Polytechnic and the Poznan University of Economics, in particular between Information Technology Department of the Polytechnic and the Department of Information Technologies of the Poznan University of Economics.

May 15^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak, Oskar Huminiecki, Miroslaw Stawniak and Rafal Wojciechowski participated in the audit of the european project PISTE. The meeting was hosted by INTRACOM SA (Athens), the general contractor of the project.

May 14^th, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki participated in the International Conference LOGISTICS'2002, organized in Poznan by Polish Logistics Association and Institute of Logistics and Warehousing. During the plenary session prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki gave an invited talk entitled Logistics in Electronic Economy prepared by prof. Wojciech Cellary. More about the conference http://www.ilim.poznan.pl/konferencje/logistics2002

May 13^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Sergiusz Strykowski participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO. The meeting was hosted by GIUNTI GRUPPO EDITORIALE in Florence.

May 3^rd, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary had a working meeting at the European Integration Department of the Ministry of Infrastructure in Warsaw. Prof. Cellary was invited to participate in preparation of the report e-Polska.

April 26^th, 2002 The Department of Information Technology organized a one day coordination meeting of the participants of the european project ARCO. The main objective of the meeting was to review the specification and implementation of the first prototype. More about ARCO http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm

April 25^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Krzysztof Walczak chaired a Workshop on Business Applications of Virtual Reality BAVR'2002 organized within the framework of the 5th International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS'2002 hosted this year by Poznan University of Economics. Prof. Cellary was also a member of the conference Programme Committee. Dr. Walczak presented a paper Dynamic Creation of MPEG-4 Contents with X-VRML (co-authors: Eamonn Boyle, Wojciech Cellary, Oskar Huminiecki, Willy Picard, Miroslaw Stawniak, Krzysztof Walczak, Rafal Wojciechowski). More about BIS and BAVR http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl

April 24^th, 2002 The Department of Information Technology organized a two days meeting of the participants of the european project PISTE. The meeting concerned preparation of the PISTE server presentation to be performed during the upcoming project review meeting in Athens in May 2002. More about PISTE http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm

April 20^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the 4th International Conference on Media and European Integration Processes MEDIA AND EDUCATION'2002 which was held in Poznan. The conference objective was to discuss current issues and to present theoretical assumptions towards the role of media in education European integration, to present results and experiences of research on media, carried out in different scientific disciplines in Poland and in the world. Prof. Cellary presented an invited paper A Challenge for Education in the Global Information Society. More about the conference http://www.amu.edu.pl/nauka/konferencje.php

April 18^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the meeting with Mr. Kalman Mizsei, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for Europe and the CIS (New York). The meeting was hosted by UN House in Warsaw. More about UNDP http://www.undp.org.pl

April 15^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary was invited to the Program Committee of the International Conference on Business Information Systems BIS'2003 which will be held at Colorado Springs on June, 2003. More about BIS'2002 http://bis.kie.ae,poznan.pl

April 15^th, 2002 Prof. Waldemar Wieczerzycki was invited as "visiting professor" at the School of Business Studies of Oulu Polytechnic (Finland). He gave the courses on e-commerce and e-marketing in the framework of the SOCRATES ERASMUS project. More about Oulu Polytechnic http://www.oamk.fi

April 8^th, 2002 Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO hosted by University of Sussex, Brighton (UK).

April 4^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an invited lecture entitled A Challenge for Education in Global Information Society for young teachers and researchers of the Poznan University of Economics who attend the complementary course on pedagogics organized by the Department of Pedagogics.

March 15^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the live discussion on the 1st Program of Polish Radio. The main topic of the debate was the Global Information Society.

March 15^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak, Oskar Huminiecki, Miroslaw Stawniak and Rafal Wojciechowski participated in the coordination meeting of the partners of the european project PISTE which was held in Athens.

March 12^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the conference on the Internet and e-business in Small and Medium Enterprises E-Chance for SME's, organized by the Polish Confederation of Private Employers, which was held in Warsaw. The objective of the conference was to promote IT and e-business as a way to build new relationships with clients, to reduce costs and to improve competitiveness of SME's on the market. Prof. Cellary was a member of the Programme Committee of the conference. He presented a paper The role of Small and Medium Enterprises in the e-economy. He was also a moderator of the session E-business Technology in SME's Strategy. A group of students of the Poznan University of Economics participated also at this conference. After the conference Prof. Cellary gave a short interwiev to TVN24. More about the conference http://www.prywatni.pl

March 5^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the inauguration meeting of the Think Tank of the MOST Programme. The MOST (Mobile Open Society through Wireless Communications) initiative aims at setting up a regional mechanism that will help organize cooperation between universities, wireless telecom providers and content providers operating in Central Europe and boost the development of civic societies. The Think Tank will provide strategic advise on the scope, coverage and implementation strategy of the MOST Programme in the context of the trends occurring on the Information and Communications Technology world scene. The members of the Think Tank are distinguished managers, practitioners and researchers in the field of mobile communications, including wireless telecommunication services, education, media, governance, and business. Prof. Cellary had an inauguration speech A Challenge of m-Society.The first Think Tank meeting was held at the premises of the Warsaw University of Technology. More about the MOST Programme http://www.most-program.org

February 21^st, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary, Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Wojciech Wiza participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project PISTE. The meeting was held in Rennes. More about PISTE http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm

February 19^th, 2002 Dr. Krzysztof Walczak and Sergiusz Strykowski participated in the working meeting of the partners of the european project ARCO. The meeting was held at the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) premises in Paris. More about ARCO http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ongoing_projects.htm

February 15^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the working meeting of the Programme Committee of the conference e-Chance for SME's - Internet and electronic business in SME's, organized by Polish Confederation of Private Employers. The conference will be held on March 12, 2002 in Warsaw. More about PCPE http://www.prywatni.pl

January 29^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary and Dr. Krzysztof Walczak participated in the international conference on Applications and the Internet SAINT'2002, co-sponsored by the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS). The conference was held in Nara (Japan). This conference focuses on Internet applications that are considered novel and timely. It provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and the government to share their latest research results in Internet applications, and to present their underlying technologies. Prof. Cellary chaired a session Services for Information Society and e-Economy. Dr Walczak presented a paper entitled X-VRML - XML Based Modeling of Virtual Reality. More about the Conference http://www.ipsj.or.jp/kokusai/saint2002.html

January 21^st, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary participated in the international conference Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medecine on the Internet, organized by the Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli (Italy), with the goal of getting together the leading world experts in the field. The only way to participate in this Conference is to be invited by SSGRR committee of experts. Prof. Cellary presented an invited paper A Challenge for Science and Education in the Global Information Society. More about SSGRR and the Conference http://www.ssgrr.it

January 15^th, 2002 Prof. Wojciech Cellary gave an open lecture entitled Global Information Society for students and staff of the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics of the Mechatronics Faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology. More about IACR http://iair.mchtr.pw.edu.pl/

January 11^th, 2002 Dr Krzysztof Walczak participated in the solemn session of the Senate of the Technical University of Gdansk devoted to honor doctoral degree recipients. At the ceremony also participated Prof. Wojciech Cellary as a Supervisor of Dr. Walczak's doctoral thesis. The ceremony was open to the public, families and friends of recipients.