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In the two broadcasts presented in November, the head and deputy head of the Institute's Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, József Váncza and Gábor Erdős, were interviewed, as well as two guest speakers, Paul Shore and Peter De Wolf.
On 11 December 2023, József Váncza, Head of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence at HUN-REN SZTAKI, gave an invited online presentation at the "AI for Good" lecture series sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in a session on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing. The event was followed by a worldwide audience and opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
A kutatók ún. rendszer identifikációt végeztek a DJI M600 multikopter MATLAB szimulációs modelljének előállításához. A multikoptert magát az „Innovatív járműipari tesztelési és vizsgálati kompetenciák fejlesztése a nyugat-magyarországi régióban a zalaegerszegi Járműipari Tesztpálya infrastruktúrájára támaszkodva, GINOP-2.3.4-15-2020-00009” c. projekt biztosította.
The researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI attended the launch meeting of the BATTwin project in Milan from 17 to 19 January. The host was the university Politecnico di Milano. The project is supported by CINEA.
The German-Hungarian EUREKA project titled EARAS (Energy-aware robotic assembly systems) held its kick-off meeting in Budapest.
József Váncza, Head of HUN-REN SZTAKI's Engineering and Management Intelligence Research Laboratory, gave an invited plenary presentation at the 20th International Manufacturing Conference in China, IMCC 2023.
Researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI’s Computational Optical Sensing and Processing Laboratory, namely Fehér Flóra, Róka Zita, Ákos Zarándy, and Péter Földesy, had presented a neonatal behavioral monitoring system jointly with the Hungarian leader incubator manufacturer, Medicor Elektronika Kft. in MEDICA, Düsseldorf.
At the central event of the European Robotics Week (ERW), video messages were played by institutes from the participating countries. In the videos, the coordinators from each country explained why they think ERW is important and what their country's highlights are.
The conference titled Open Science, Open Data in Hungary – The First Two Years of HUN-REN ARP took place on 16 November 2023, and was hosted by the HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control (HUN-REN SZTAKI). During this event, attendees had the opportunity to explore presentations covering the historical background, current status, and future prospects of the HUN-REN Data Repository Platform (HUN-REN ARP).
Elisabeth Angyalka Ilie-Zudor, Head of the Intelligent Information Management group, and Director’a Consultant for EU projects at HUN-REN SZTAKI, will give a presentation titled "Lump sum budget planning at the proposal writing stage and implementation experiences".
In the framework of their career orientation day, fourth grade students of the Lágymányosi Bárdos Lajos Bilingual Primary School visited HUN-REN SZTAKI.
On 29 September 2023, the Institute participated in the event with ten programmes, which occupied several floors of two buildings. More than 300 visitors took part in the HUN-REN STUKI's demonstrations, which ranged from flying drones to an occasional hardware history exhibition, learning about industrial robots and trying out ageing clocks.
SZTAKI's Engineering and Management Intelligence Research Laboratory (EMI) and Hitachi Research and Development Group have a decades-long collaboration – a recent landmark in this relationship saw EMI staff visit two Hitachi facilities.
On 4 and 5 October 2023, the Building PREPAREDness with Collaborative Knowledge Platform, Gamification and Serious Game in Virtual Reality project held its project launch event. The event was attended by project participants from 15 partner institutions from 11 countries.
The exhibition titled "From the Past to the Future", which opened in 2022, can be visited on a virtual tour developed by the eLearning Department of HUN-REN SZTAKI.
The 2023 International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET) Symposium 2023 took place at HUN-REN SZTAKI from 31 August to 1 September 2023. The event featured presentations by international experts and a poster session was held in the Innovation and Demonstration Hall of SZTAKI. The three-day programme was co-organised and hosted by HUN-REN SZTAKI.
HUN-REN SZTAKI awaited its visitors with ten different programs, including a drone parade, an autonomous land vehicle, an interactive blockchain simulation, robots, aging clocks, baby monitoring, and a hardware history exhibition at the Researchers' Night on Friday 29 September 2023.
Az IMEKO tagjai 25 különböző részterület konferenciáin mutatják be tudományos eredményeiket, évről évre. A részterületek (TC-k, Technical Committee-k) maguk döntik el, hogy mikor és hol rendezik meg éves konferenciájukat, kivéve a háromévente megrendezett világkonferenciát.
International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO): an international, scientific organisation covering the complete range of measurement, it has 41 country members from all over the world, additionally, it has many personal members, 32 leaders in person and over 50 participated online on the actual meeting, representing more than 40 countries.
The Hungarian Machine Learning Meeting (Magyar Machine Learning Találkozó) provided an opportunity for Hungarian machine learning researchers working in foreign institutions to meet each other and the younger generation of Hungarian machine learning researchers and Ph.D. students. During the 3-day informal summer meeting, 17 internationally renowned researchers gave presentations, and the Hungarian young researchers presented their research in 35 posters, with many informal joint activities. Two of the speakers were professors from Cambridge University and two from Carnegie Mellon University, while other speakers came from Google, Deepmind, Huawei, Harvard University, ETH Zurich, among others.