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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

The Fourth Annual Bio-IT World Europe Conference & Expo attracted life sciences, pharmaceutical, informatics and IT professionals from across Europe and the rest of the world to share research advances, information trends and new enabling technologies that are driving biomedical research and drug development to new heights.  Peter Kacsuk ’s ( MTA SZTAKI LPDS , Universsity of Westminster ) presenta

The conference started with a day of tutorials and workshops and continued with a three-day technical programme. The fifth day was a "Developers' Day." The tutorials and workshops provided in-depth looks into specific areas of current interest. The technical programme included refereed paper presentations, alternate track presentations, plenary sessions, panels and poster sessions. The Developers' Day was devoted to in-depth technical sessions designed specifically for Web developers.

ECDL 2007 was devoted to discussions about hot issues and applications and primarily provided a forum to reinforce the collaboration of researchers and practitioners in the field. 6 half-day tutorials preceded and 6 workshops followed the conference.

AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 by merging highly respected individual conferences (ICMAS, ATAL and AA) in order to to provide a single, high-profile, internationally respected archival forum for scientific research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. 

In this work the  Distributed Event Analysis Research Laboratory  have proposed a new object-based  hierarchical model for joint probabilistic extraction of vehicles and coherent vehicle groups - called  traffic segments - in airborne LIDAR point clouds collected from crowded u

Parametric active contours are efficient tools for boundary detection. However, existing external-energy-inspired methods have difficulties when detecting high curvature, noisy or low contrasted contours and they often suffer from initialization sensitivity.

Self-organizing methods can efficiently search, route and replicate content in complex, dynamic networks. Furthermore, they make the assumption that decisions of the nodes of the networks rely only on local information and therefore the global optimum is not known. For evaluation purposes, however, it is important to compute the global optimum to serve as a theoretical bound. In this paper we define a formal model describing the problem of content placement and use an integer linear programming (ILP) based optimization method.

The presentation attempts to encompass the opportunities for applying QR codes for museums and exhibits through the example of the Hungarian Museum of Environmental Protection and Water Management (Esztergom, Hungary). Besides providing interactivity in the museum for the mobile phone generation through the utilization of a device and a method that they are familiar with, it is important to explain how and why it is worthwhile to “adorn” the exhibits with these codes.

A research consortium of 8 European partners from industry (Airbus, Deimos Space), research establishments (DLR, MTA SZTAKI) and Universities (Bordeaux, Delft, Hull, Leicester) was established in July 2009 with funding from the European Union 7th Framework Program to address the challenge of the future sustainable aircraft: to be cleaner, quieter, smarter and more affordable.

Congratulation to Professor László Monostori , Deputy Director Research of the  Computer and Automation Research Institute , Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI), for his selection as member of the Engineering and Technological Sciences (ENGITECH) Scientific Committee of  Science Europe .

Despite the uncertain global economy, attendance figures for the  European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) conference 2013 are looking positive. The December statistics for registeredconference delegates are 25% higher compared with registration figures at the same stage before EWEA 2012. " Make your vision really ” is also a promising motto of the conference.

On December 5 and 6, 2012, a high level delegation of Hitachi’s Yokohama Research Laboratory (YRL) visited MTA SZTAKI. YRL and the Engineering and Management Intelligence (EMI) Research Laboratory of MTA SZTAKI run an extremely fruitful cooperation for the benefit of both parties.

With more than 90 participating organisations in 21 European countries and over 200 robotics related activities offered for the public, the second European Robotics Week was a tremendous success!We had our joint Hungarian event on the 27th, Tuesday 13.30-16.00.  Now We report only about the CIM Research Lab. of SZTAKI, the coordinator.  We made everything as planned, see the lefthand side of www.eurobotics.sztaki.hu.   Naturally one could reach our web-site from the www. eurobotics-project.eu as well.

The 3DANCE Norwegian-Hungarian dance conservation initiative will be launched by the Norwegian ambassador to Hungary on 9 November, 2012 at the Central Building of MTA SZTAKI.  A first test recording of folk dances based on modern 3D technology will take place at the launching ceremony.

SZTAKI Szótár has received Lifetime Achievement Award in the „Excellent Hungarian Online Content eFestival 2012” competition, organized by Informatika a Társadalomért Egyesület (Association of Informatics for Society). The Award Ceremony was held on November 7, 2012 in Balatonfüred, in the frame of Info Tér Conference. Prominent representatives of the Hungarian Content Industry honored the activity of MTA SZTAKI Department of Distributed Systems (MTA SZTAKI DSD) led by dr.

Through mobilising the knowledge base of Hungarian research and education institutes, the innovation of automotive transport and industrial developments will be promoted through the consortium agreement signed by the Academy in MTA main building by MTA Computer and Automation Research Institute, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (TUC), the Szent István University of Gödöllő (SZIE), Robert Bosch Elektronika Ltd. in Hatvan, and Robert Bosch Ltd.

The workshop is planned for the interest of professors, academic researchers, IT professionals and PhD students, with the following program:

09:30 - 10:00: Registration

10:00 - 10:20: Welcome and introduction to W3C (Máté Pataki - W3C Hungarian Office)

10:20 - 11:50: HTML: Making of the Modern Web Platform (Michael Smith, W3C Japan – in English)

11:50 - 12:30: Coffee break

12:30 - 13:15: HTML5 from the perspective of “accessibility” (Károly Szántai - AkadálymentesWeb.hu)

Last Friday night in September is dedicated again to curiosity for the sciences: Researchers’ Night – supported by the EU – is a popular pan-European event giving the opportunity to meet science and have a glimpse behind the scenes through “fun” activities. It also aims at showing the public, and mainly young people the advantages of pursuing a research career. As more and more organizations have joined this event since it started in 2005, this September nearly sixty institutes, laboratories and museums welcome visitors in Hungary.