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On-site deployment of the smart energy-positive street lighting system called E+grid has been completed at the MTA campus at Csillebérc, Budapest. This state-of-the-art lighting system was developed with support of the Hungarian Government by a consortium led by General Electric Hungary , with the participation of MTA SZTAKI , MTA MFA and BME .

The Institute, with its „Centre of Excellence in Production Informatics and Control (EPIC)” application submitted with two faculties of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), i.e., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering ; with three outstanding institutes of the Fraunhofer Society (FhG) in the field of production (IPA-Stuttgar

From January 2015, László Monostori has been appointed to director of MTA SZTAKI by László Lovász, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

We have the pleasure to congratulate him on his new appointment and wishing him a successful mission.

The Engineering and Management Intelligence Research Laboratory of MTA SZTAKI and the SZTAKI- Fraunhofer Project Centrum for Production Management and Informatics developed a production planning system for the motor assembly lines of Audi Hungaria Motor Ltd. for a time horizon of 26-52 weeks.

Robotic remote laser welding (RLW) has attracted interest specifically in the automotive industry due to its potential benefits in terms of processing speed, process flexibility and energy efficiency.

Contributing to the EU-funded RLW Navigator project, researchers of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence developed a software toolbox that enables the detailed configuration, optimization, simulation and automated off-line programming of RLW workcells. 

The President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences welcomed the Technical Lead from the US Office of Naval Research and Deputy from Office of Defense Cooperation to discuss extending the research collaboration between Hungary and the United States of America. Charles J. Holland and Nilesh J. Christian visited László Lovász in his office at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

It is hard to describe the deep sorrow we feel for the loss of Gary Balas, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Hungarian Engineering Academy. He left us on November 12 at his age of 54.

The Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence as the coordinator of the project hosted the kick-off meeting of the RobustPlaNet project.

On the occasion of the 60th birthday of Professor László Monostori , an international scientific workshop was held on 11th October, 2013, at Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). Distinguished speakers put the topic of cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) into a historical context and presented their view on challenges, prospects and evolution trends of CPPS.

The VirCA platform which is developed under the leadership of the 3DICC laboratory of MTA SZTAKI has been exhibited in several distinguished international forums among which the Taipei International Robot Show (TIROS) 2010 – organized parallel to the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots – and The European Future Technologies (FET) 2011 Conference and Exhibition are worth mentioning.

In recognition of the accelerating merging process between the cognitive sciences and infocommunications technologies, the CogInfoCom (Cognitive Infocommunications) conference series was initiated in 2012 by MTA SZTAKI and BME TMIT , and was established with the participation of an international group of leading researchers.  The members of the startup committee of the conference are from 9 different countries, and have backgrounds in a variety of engineering and cognition-related fields.  

The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the world's premier networking forum of leading researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems. ISCAS 2012, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and supported by Ajou University, took place in Seoul, Korea from May 20 to May 23, 2012.

The 13th International Workshop on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and their Applications took place in Turin, Italy from August 29 to August 31. 

In the summer of 2011 a new robot laboratory started to work in the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The lab consists of two robots and a milling machine. One of the robots is a big size, big power FANUC industrial robot . These 3 tools are used for real technologies (Rubik’s Cube and Incremental sheet forming) and for virtual networking experiments.

Several members of the Computer Integrated Manufactoring Laboratory  took part in the CoginfoCom 2012 conference with different, but related topics. George Kovács gave a plenary presentation titled  „ Reuse and Recycling for Sustainability ”.

AGI Impacts 2012 was set in Oxford during Alan Turing’s centenary year, as a subconference of  the Winter Intelligence Conference .

Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on language resources and evaluation for language technologies . In the  Research Group for Human Language Technologies 's article we describe and make public large-scale language resources (a large webcorpus and word frequency list) and the toolchain used in  their creation for medium density European languages.

Members of the Geometric Modelling and Computer Vision Laboratory took part in the most prestigious conference of the computer vision research community, the 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) held in Barcelona during the sunny November of 2011.

Four members of the Geometric Modelling and Computer Vision Laboratory represented the group in ICPR 2010 in Istanbul, and presented two significant research results. They introduced an algorithm that computes optical flow using variational methods and cross correlation, that is more robust than previous approaches, due to its illumination invariance.

This event , organized within the framework of the EU-funded SCC-Computing project, pursued to: (1) foster scientific collaboration between Europe and China in the ICT field; (2) identify research challenges for further development of joint research projects in the area of computing systems; (2) influence and make contributions to strategic research planning on future European Research Frameworks (Horizon