News

10/06/2022 - 07:05

The Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory and the National Laboratory for Autonomous Systems, both coordinated by SZTAKI, got introduced at the IVSZ MENTA 2022 conference, letting the audience know more about their projects and functions.

A high-level scientific delegation from South Korea learned about ARNL's and MILAB's research during their networking tour in Hungary

Government

10/05/2022 - 13:50

Dr. Myung-Joon KIM, President of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of South Korea, and his three high-ranking colleagues within ETRI visited Hungary on a scientific and research networking tour. The program of the tour was organised by the Ministry of Culture and Innovation.

The Forerunner Drone accompanies and safeguards an ambulance car in a live demo in the Smart City

09/27/2022 - 14:26

In the frame of the ”Week of Safety” event-series the researchers of the Széchenyi István University (Győr, Hungary) and of the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary) were given the opportunity to demonstrate to the public the results of their joint development efforts concerning a forerunner drone. The live demo was carried out with the active participation of the Hungarian National Ambulance Service (HNAS); more specifically, one of their ambulance cars was accompanied in the air and was safeguarded from above by the aforementioned drone.

The researchers of SZTAKI gave presentations and instanciated live demos to the delegation of the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

09/23/2022 - 07:34

In its Innovation and Demonstration Space that had been inaugurated this summer, SZTAKI received the representatives of the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

T-FLEX demonstrator aircraft test flight

07/12/2022 - 09:58

In May 2022 we have flown, crashed, repaired and flown again the T-FLEX demonstrator, within the FLiPASED H2020 project. The teams from SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control) and German Aerospace Center (DLR) also helped immensely with providing the test airfield, software preparation debugging and supporting the test team.

József Bokor, László Keviczky and Ákos Zarándy were honoured with the Rudolf Kálmán Prize

07/06/2022 - 08:28

József Bokor, scientific director of SZTAKI, László Keviczky, former director of SZTAKI and chairman of the scientific council, and Ákos Zarándy, head of the Laboratory of Computer Optical Sensing and Processing and researcher at the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems received the prestigious award.

Joint exhibition of the Fraunhofer Society and SZTAKI opened in Stuttgart

06/30/2022 - 08:44

The joint exhibition of the Fraunhofer Society and SZTAKI was opened at the Stuttgart Science Festival, with speeches by András Izsák, Consul General of Stuttgart, Thomas Bauernhansl, Director of Fraunhofer IPA, and László Monostori, Director of SZTAKI. The opening ceremony was also attended by Engelbert Westkämper, former Director of Fraunhofer IPA.

Péter Gáspár elected as a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Tamás Szirányi elected as a corresponding member of HAS

06/17/2022 - 08:01

Péter Gáspár, Head of SZTAKI Systems and Control Lab (SCL), was elected Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). Tamás Szirányi, Head of the SZTAKI Machine Perception Research Laboratory, was elected Corresponding Member of the HAS at its 195th General Assembly.

International success at LDAC Hackathon

06/15/2022 - 14:30

At the Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (LDAC) held in Spain this year, Ádám Kovács (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) was part of the winning team in the CBIM (Cloud-based Building Information Modeling) Hackathon.

The Innovation and Demo Space at the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI) was officially opened

06/09/2022 - 08:41

In the Innovation and Demo Space (IDS), some of SZTAKI’s most recent research and development results were presented and demonstrated. SZTAKI is part of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH).

Researcher of SZTAKI and EPIC Center of Excellence spoke on the Netzwerk Digital Artificial Intelligence Conference

05/05/2022 - 06:16

As part of the Netzwerk Digital collaboration, the Advantage Austria, the Artificial Intelligence Coalition, the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hungary and the Swisscham Hungary presented their joint Artificial Intelligence Conference, focusing on the Hungarian AI Strategy, the institutional framework and the application of AI in the manufacturing sector.

SZTAKI has established the Gaia-X Hungarian National Hub

04/29/2022 - 14:12

The event was attended by Dr. Károly Balázs Solymár, Deputy State Secretary for Digitalisation at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Marco-Alexander Breit, Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies Task Force at the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Change, and several members of the Gaia-X board.

SZTAKI also participated in the XII Western Transdanubian Regional Innovation Exhibition and Invention Fair

04/19/2022 - 05:38

The participants of the exhibition had the opportunity to learn about the activities and professional achievements of SZTAKI and to ask for a portrait served by the institute's drawing robot, Piktor-o-bot.

Test of safety critical electronics on redundant experimental aircraft

04/04/2022 - 10:25

A SZTAKI Autonóm Rendszerek Nemzeti Laboratórium keretében üzemeltetett Sindy kísérleti repülőgépén biztonságkritikus elektronikát teszteltek a kutatók az Aero Média Kft. közreműködésével, 2022. Március 28-án.

Why does the 2022 FIFA World Cup draw need to be redone?

04/01/2022 - 05:51

In the FIFA World Cup, the 32 national teams are allocated to eight groups of four, where the top two teams qualify for the Round of 16. Therefore, it is important to balance the difficulty levels of the groups: if a group contains three strong teams, at least one of them will be eliminated in the group stage. The draw system used until 2014 has been subject to considerable criticism over the years, hence FIFA adopted one recommendation of a French mathematician, Julien Guyon, for the 2018 World Cup draw.

Zoltán Szabó, researcher at SZTAKI, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary

Government

03/25/2022 - 08:35

The research advisor of the Systems and Control Lab of SZTAKI was awarded the medal for his "achievements in the field of control theory research and education".

About the 1st Workshop on Consumers of Distributed Knowledge Graphs in Digital, Industry and Space

03/22/2022 - 11:31

On the 16th of February 2022 the COST action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs organized the 1st Workshop on Consumers of Distributed Knowledge Graphs in Digital, Industry and Space. The event was held online in two sessions containing seven presentations altogether.

Our Commitment

03/18/2022 - 12:23

In consideration of the crisis in Ukraine, SZTAKI – on the burden of its external income – is ready to employ members from its partner institutions in Ukraine, and under given circumstances to help them in accommodation.

Successful REFORMula Challenge Innovation Competition