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We congratulate Ottó Hutter
2005/09/27
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This is to congratulate our colleague, Ottó Hutter, Head of e-Learning
Department, upon his being awarded Dennis Gábor Medal (donated by Dennis Gábor
College) with the appreciation as follows:
Dr Ottó Hutter is a well-known representative of e-Learning in Hungary. His
organizational activity exerted in the field is unique. It is under his
leadership that the committee with the aim of endevouring the standardization of
e-learning was established. Similarly, the professional lecture-series
introducing the developments in e-learning - in which Dennis Gábor College
played an important part - is to be attributed to him.
A recent result of Dr Hutter is the fresh publication of the first trade-book
of the e-learning branch in Hungary, with the title „e-Learning 2005”.
Publisher: Műszaki Könyvkiadó.
We wish Ottó further success in his work!
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Gusztav Hencsey is an Advisor of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2005/07/07
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Congratulations to Gusztav Hencsey, who was appointed to be "A Lifetime IFAC
Advisor" by the President of IFAC at the Opening Ceremony of the 16th IFAC
World Congress held in Prague on 3 July, 2005.
The list of IFAC Advisors: Pedro Albertos (ES), Brian D.O. Anderson (AU), Jiri
Benes (CZ), Janos Gertler (US), Gusztáv Hencsey (HU), Rolf Isermann (DE), Stephen J.
Kahne (US), Lennart Ljung (SE), Mohamed Mansour (CH), Michael Masten (US), Yoshikazu
Sawaragi (JP), Walter Schaufelberger (CH), Manfred Thoma (DE), Tibor Vamos (HU).
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We congratulate László Keviczky,
2005/06/20
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academician, on his being admitted to the Polish Academy of Sciences, as Honorary Member.
The General Assembly meeting of the Polish Academy was held in May, 2005.
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Congratulations!
2005/03/16
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On the occasion of the National Day, Széchenyi Prize was awarded to János
Demetrovics, as a recognition of his future-shaping results, significant
also internationally, in database theory. (He was honoured with the Prize
together with Gyula Katona, director, Rényi Alfréd Institute of Mathematics,
HAS.) The Prize was donated by the President of the Republic of Hungary,
Ferenc Mádl, in the Parliament building. Congratulating also István Nagy,
Domokos Szász and Iván Bach, further obtainers of the Prize.
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We congratulate Péter Bakonyi,
2005/03/16
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deputy-director, SZTAKI, on his being awarded the Order named "Magyar
Köztársasági Érdemrend Tisztikereszt polgári tagozat". The medal was
presented by the Minister of the Ministry of Informatics and Communications,
on behalf of the President of the Republic of Hungary. Wishing Péter Bakonyi
further success!
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Congratulations to András Siegler
2005/02/14
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Based on the decision taken by the European Commission on January 19, 2005,
András Siegler, vice president of the National Office for Research and
Technology, former deputy director of SZTAKI, has been appointed to the
position of the director responsible for the international scientific and
technological co-operation at DG Research. András Siegler worked at SZTAKI
between 1975 and 1996. At the European Commission, he will be in charge of
formulating and managing the scientific and technological co-operation
policy of the EU with third countries (countries which are not members of
the Union) and with international organizations.
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Dennis Gabor Prize to László Monostori
2004/11/30
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László Monostori, deputy director, research, SZTAKI, and head of Department
of Production Informatics, Management and Control, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, was awarded DENNIS GABOR PRIZE, on the 16th of
December, 2004, as a recognition of his achievements based on artificial
intelligence and machine learning techniques for handling complexity,
changes and disturbances on different levels of the production hierarchy;
for his future-shaping research acknowledged internationally in the
interdisciplinary field of intelligent manufacturing systems and digital
enterprises; for establishing and heading university departments; for
bringing up a series of young researchers and for his activity which is
manifested in leading positions at national and international scientific
organisations and periodicals.
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Congratulations to Tibor Vámos
2004/07/21
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The European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence have elected
Tibor Vámos to be an ECCAI Fellow. ECCAI Fellow titles have been awarded
since 1999 to the outstanding individuals who have made significant,
sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence in Europe
with pioneering advances in the theory of AI, unusual accomplishments in
technology and applications, as well as leadership in the international AI
community. The ECCAI Fellows Programme honours only a very small percentage
of the total membership of all ECCAI member societies and this is the first
time that this title was awarded a Hungarian scientist.
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Best Paper Prize
2004/06/14
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The paper "Using Jini to Connect Condor Pools into a Computational Grid" written by Gergely Sipos and Peter Kacsuk has been awarded the best paper prize by the Programme Committee
of the MIPRO Conference held at Opatija from 24th to 28th May, 2004.
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Department of Distributed Systems participated at 2nd INFOtrend
2003/12/01
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The Department of Distributed Systems participated at the 2nd INFOtrend
International IT and Telecommunications Conference and Trade Exhibition
held between 27-29th November, 2003 at the Budapest Fair Centre.
It is a high-quality trade forum including a three-day conference-series,
displaying IT solutions, hardware
and software innovations. Supported by the Ministry of Informatics and
Communications, the department presented its on-going projects at its booth.
The posters can be viewed online.
More information on the projects of the department is available at
http://dsd.sztaki.hu/projects/.
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P-GRADE demonstrated at Supercomputing'03
2003/11/25
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The Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed System of MTA SZTAKI has
demonstrated P-GRADE at the Supercomputing'03 exhibition in Phoenix
with great success. Members of the laboratory demonstrated the new Grid
features of P-GRADE like job migration and workflow execution in the
Grid and P-GRADE Grid portal by live demos. More than 100 people visited our
booth including staff members of Cray, Apple, Intel, Microsoft and HP.
Additionally to English, French, Dutch, Italian and German research
booths our one was the only booth from the rest of Europe.
Interested readers can find more information on P-GRADE at the
following web site:
http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/pgrade/.
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Tamás Rapcsák
2003/11/18
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We congratulate Tamás Rapcsák on his being awarded the Gold Medal of the
Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration by the
Council of the University, as the recognition of the outstanding tutorial
and scientific activity of prof. Rapcsák.
Tamás Rapcsák was awarded the Farkas Bolyai Prize of the Board of trustees
of academic specialization of János Arany Public Funds for Science as their
recognition of his outstanding scientific activity. Congratulations!
Doctors of the Academy pursuing research, education, organisation of
research and propagating general knowledge jointly on a high level may be
awarded this honourable Prize.
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András Prékopa
2003/08/04
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This is to congratulate András Prékopa, academician,M
mathematician, recipient of Széchenyi Award, on his beingM
awarded by the Gold Medal of the European Association forM
Operations Research Societies (EURO) in 2003, for his scientificM
activity. The medal is awarded in every 2nd year for outstandingM
scientific and organisational activity in the field of operationsM
research. András Prékopa's fields are operations research computer science,M
probability theory, mathematical statistics.
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Visits from diplomatic spheres to the SZTAKI
2003/05/09
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Led by Dr. A. Carty, the President of the National Research Council of
Canada and Dr. T. Brzustowski, the President of the Natural Science and
Engineering Research Council of Canada a Canadian delegation paid a visit
to our Institute on the 3rd of May, 2003. The guests were received by Péter
Inzelt, Director and László Monostori, Deputy Director. After the Institute
having been introduced, lectures were delivered on Digital Enterprises,
Production Networs, a National Research and Development Programme, and on
the activity at the Analogical and Neural Computing Laboratory. The visit
ended with lunch at the restaurant of the Institute.
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Hungarian GRID Competency Center
2003/03/14
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The Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eötvös Loránd
University of Sciences, the Computer and Automation Research
Institution, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National
Information Infrastructure Development Office established the
Hungarian GRID Competency Center on 14 March 2003. The GRID, as a
result of long-time cooperation, research and development of the
founding institutions enables users to fulfil enormous computational
tasks with the linking of computers of different types and capacity.
The core of the technology is a complex software which ensures the
access to Internet based resources (computers, computer clusters,
registers and measuring instruments). It also provides users'
interface, information systems, resource brokers, resource allocation,
job- and workflow-management, fault tolerance. With the help of the
GRID technology, research centers and students of countries with
limited financial resources may have the access to immense information
capacity.
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Award for Young Scientists by the Academy
2003/03/14
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Based on his competition essay submitted, Botond Kádár from Research Group
on Intelligent Manufacturing and Business Processes was awarded the
"Akadémiai Ifjúsági Díj" (Award for Young Scientists by the Academy), by the
Secretary-general of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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Visits from diplomatic spheres to the SZTAKI
2003/03/14
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Richard Alston, the Minister of the Australian Ministry of Communication and
Information Technology, and His Excellency Leo Cruise, the Ambassador of
Australia to Hungary paid a visit to our Institute on the 14th of March,
2003. The guests were received by Tamás Roska, Academician and László
Monostori, Deputy Director. Following a general introduction of the
Institute, colleagues from the Analogical and Neural Computing Systems
Laboratory and the Systems and Control Laboratory provided with brief
surveys on their activity, for the guests.
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First prize of the 'Agentcities Technology Competition and Exhibition'
2003/02/06
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The System Development Department of the Informatics Division won the
first prize of the "Agentcities Technology Competition and Exhibition" in
the Infrastructure Category. Fifty four entries from all over the world
registered for the competition which was organised by the Agentcities
initiative and IST project. The event was featured on the Spanish national
television as well and the prizes were presented in the Barcelona city hall.
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Farkas Gyula Prize
2003/01/28
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Márta Pintér, a research fellow of the Informatics Laboratory,
has been awarded the Gyula Farkas Prize of the János Bolyai
Mathematical Society for her seminal work in the area of
nonparametric statistics.
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John von Kemeny award
2002/10/16
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Ákos Zarándy for the development
of the first prototype of CNN visual computer and his
outstanding achievements and publication activity won the John
von Kemeny award of the John von Neumann Computer
Society.
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The Nevanlinna prize
2002/09/26
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The Nevanlinna prize, awarded in every four years by the
International Mathematical Union, is perceived as the highest
honour in the field of Theoretical Computer Science. This year the
prize was given to Madhu Sudan (MIT). He
has had outstanding contributions to several
areas related to algorithms. We are pleased to mention, that
our colleague, Dr. Katalin Friedl has a
joint paper with professor Sudan on probabilistic proof checking,
a subject with which was qoted in the prize citation.
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Virtual Institute for Production and Business Management
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On
May 7, 2002 the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and
Automation (IPA)
and the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences (MTA SZTAKI)
established the Virtual Institute for Production and Business Management.
The aim is to launch co-ordinated
research, development and consulting activities in Hungary for supporting
enterprises acting in the production and service industries. The fields of
activity address the most important challenges they face, independently of
their specific scope: Product management, Factory and logistics planning,
Organisation and quality management, Order and process management, Supply chain
management, Production networks and E-business.
For further information please contact Mr. Botond Kadar.
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Visits from diplomatic spheres to the SZTAKI
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Ambassador Wilfried Gruber, the Ambassador of Germany accredited to the
Republic of Hungary and M. Alain Costes, the Director of the Department of
Technology at the Ministere de la Recherche paid visits to the SZTAKI on
the 28th of March, and on the 25th of April. The Board of Management of the
Institute made the visitors acquainted with the research results at the
SZTAKI, outlining the plans and programs for the near future. The
participants discussed some co-operation opportunities, with special regard
to the EU VI framework.
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Outstanding Young Technological Innovator of the Year
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István Varga received the
special prize of Alstom Power Hungaria Company for his work "Startup test
machine" prepared for use at the Nuclear Power Plant Paks.
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Young Researcher Prize of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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The Secretary-General of the Academy awarded two
researchers of SZTAKI: András Benczúr for his work on
"Randomized algorithms for optimisation problems in networks"
, while Csaba Mészáros for his work on "Special problems and
applications of large scale optimisation".
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2002 Bolyai Prize Presented
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Budapest, March 2 (MTI) - Academician Tamas Roska (62), an authority on computer
science, received the Bolyai Prize, Hungary's highest non-state scientific award
named after the world-renowned mathematician Janos Bolyai (1802-1860), from
President Ferenc Madl in the Budapest Convention Centre on Saturday.
Addressing the ceremony, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Hungary was
currently spending 1.5pc of its gross domestic product to support scientific
research, but the ratio should be upped to 2pc in the future.
The Bolyai Prize Foundation was set up in 1998 at a non-governmental
initiative. The prize, with a purse of USD 50,000, was first awarded in 2000, to
brain researcher Tamas Freund (43).
http://lab.analogic.sztaki.hu
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DAPSYS 2002
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4th Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems
Linz, Austria, September 29th - October 2nd, 2002
The workshop will be organized jointly
with the 9th EuroPVM/MPI conference. While EuroPVM/MPI is
dedicated to the latest developments of PVM and MPI, DAPSYS
is expected to be a major event to discuss general aspects
of distributed and parallel systems, this time with a
special emphasis on clusters, grids, metacomputing and the
related fields.
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Exhibition on significant Hungarian achievements
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Out of ten areas from
informatics, represented at an exhibition open all the year round, two
fields are due to colleagues at SZTAKI: results in Cellular Neural Network,
research lead by Tamás Roska and in Reverse Engineering is dealt with by the
group headed by Tamás Várady. For more details you can visit their websites
http://lab.analogic.sztaki.hu/ accordingly http://wwwold.sztaki.hu/gml/
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Corvin-chain
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For his outstanding contribution to the Hungarian
science, the member of the Board of the Institute, the Wolf-prize winner
in mathematics, László Lovász was awarded with the very special and
prestigious Hungarian prize at December 1st.
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Best paper award
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Miklós Horváth and József Borka won the 2001. Best
Paper Award of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association for their
work on "New modular energy converters for controlling the luminuous
intensity of fluorescent lamps".
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Congratulations
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Congratulations to Tamas Roska, Academician, on his being
acknowledged as a "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the University
of Veszprem. The honouring title is a token of the recognition
of Prof.Roska's outstanding scientific activity and that of done
for the sake of the University.
The National Scientific Board of Students' Association awarded
the title of Mestertanar (Master in Teaching) to Tamas
Sziranyi for his high-level and successful activity supporting the
students' scientific development in higher education in Hungary.
It was given on the occasion of the XXV. Conference of the
National Scientific Board of Students' Association.
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New 3D scanner in the Geometric Modelling Laboratory
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An advanced laser scanner, called Modelmaker, was installed at GML last
month, which is the product of 3DScanners, UK. The laser head is mounted to
a robot arm with seven degrees of freedom. The operator can move the head in
the 3D space practically free in order to capture the coordinates of data
points on the surface of the object to be measured. An open day is going to
be arranged soon for everybody interested.
Pictures
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Kalmár Prize
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Dr Miklós Bíró, the Head of our Quality Management
Department, won the prestigious Kalmár prize for his outstanding work in
computer science and applications of computer techniques.
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John von Kemeny award
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László Gulyás, the scientist of the Research Group on Application of AI
Methods in Mechanical Engineering, won the John von Kemeny award. Since 1992
Gulyás takes part in the training of the Hungarian team for the
International Student Olimpics in Informatics, while in 1991 he was third
place winner in the Olimpics. The award can be given to young scientists
(under 30) for their research work.
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Newly elected members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from our Institute
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The General Assembly of the HAS elected József Bokor Member of the Academy
and Lajos Rónyai the Corresponding Member of HAS, on the 7th of May, 2001.
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Hevesi Endre prize
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Vicsek-Strehó Mária received the Hevesi Endre prize of scientific journalism.
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Zsolt János Viharos for his work on "Intelligent
techniques in the modelling and optimization of manifacturing
processes" received the prize from the Secretary-General of the
Academy.
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In April the ECDL Foundation holding an international quality control audit
in Hungary, acknowledged the outstanding level of our Training Center.
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The EU granted the prestigious title of CENTRE-of-EXCELLENCE to SZTAKI
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From March 2001 for a 3 year long period, SZTAKI will function as an EU
Centre of Excellence in the field of Information Technology and
Automation. Our scientific international and national activities will be
highlighted , and SZTAKI will host well known foreign experts to work
at our research laboratories for longer periods.
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Successful supercomputing demo
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SZTAKI actively participated
in the Cactus testbed demo of the European Grid Forum in Dallas
at the Supercomputing conference 4-10 November. The Cactus
testbed demonstrated the usage of a European Grid connecting the
following sites: AEI (Berlin), Brno Supercomputing Centre, MTA
SZTAKI (Budapest), Poznan Supercomputing Centre, Padernborn
Supercomputing Centre, Rein University (Amsterdam). The
program demonstrated by Ferenc Szalai (staff member of MTA
SZTAKI) was simulating the collision of black holes and was
executed on the machines of the participating institutes.
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Lajos Rónyai received the special mathematical prize of
the Academy for his outstanding work in research, education and
popularization of mathematical results.
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MTA SZTAKI in PRINT & PUBLISHING
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The 2000. September issue of the Hungarian PRINT &
PUBLISHING writes an appreciation of the image-setter
developed in MTA SZTAKI, which is one of the first
platesetters in the world. It is based on the most up-to date
CTP (Computer To Plate) technology (Hardware + Software).
Laser and Computer Techniques Department
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SZTAKI becomes a Centre-of-Excellence
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In April MTA SZTAKI was recognised as a Centre-of-Excellence by the
European Commission, Directorate General Research, - International
co-operation, after our proposal had been favourably evaluated by
the Commission services with the help of independent experts. Contract
negotiations are in progress, but SZTAKI wishes to thank all those
partner institutions and colleagues within ERCIM, who helped to
achieve this prestigious title.
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Kalmar prize
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Peter Kacsuk, head of the Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed
Systems received the Kalmar-prize - the second biggest prize of
the Hungarian Neumann Society - for his outstanding work in
computer science and technology.
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Best paper award
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Wiley publisher announced on April 11, 2000 that the 1998 year best
paper award of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and
Applications went to Csaba Rekeczky and professor Tamas Roska jointly
with professor Akio Ushida for their paper on "CNN-based
difference-controlled adaptive non-linear image filters".
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New Computer Laboratory is at work
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At a press conference, March 6th
at 11 a.m. our new 58 processor computer laboratory at Victor Hugo
street was presented. The processors are connected into a cluster
providing supercomputing power. The state of the art user friendly
graphical software environment (P-GRADE) for supercomputer
programs have been developed by Kacsuk Peter's group. The
laboratory will serve as a training room as well. The cluster will be
available for our partners through internet and it can be connnected
with our supercomputers and clusters.
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Second Web Cache Managers Workshop
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On behalf of the DESIRE II project TERENA organised the Second
Web Cache Managers Workshop, hosted by SZTAKI, on 2-3 March 2000. The
workshop was targeted to web cache managers and administrators both from the
academic community and commercial Internet Service Providers. The participants
were able to attend to lectures on caching architectures and communication
protocols, cache monitoring and analysis and more interesting topics. They were
also be able to participate in practical hands on about cache meshes building. A
final session dealt on most recent developments and research issues. The
workshop payed special attention to the local developments in Central and
Eastern European Countries.
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Success of an important application of advanced process control systems
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Over the past two years Siemens, the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Paks and SZTAKI
have been working on the modernization and refurbishment of the complete reactor
protection system (RPS) of NPP Paks, Hungary. By August of 1999 the
refurbishment of the 1st unit was succesfully finished.
While Siemens provided a state-of the- art distributed multiprocessor-based I&C
system the SZTAKI's team was entrusted with the complex task of verification and
validation (V&V) of the new system. The subject of V&V was the verification of
hardware and software design both in activity and document level. The verification of
testing methods provided by Siemens , moreover, the elaboration of the test cases
independent from the supplier was also part of the project.
The work is continued till all the units will be refurbished. By accomplishing the
refurbishment project the Paks NPP becomes the first VVER 440 type plant modernizing its
safety system according to the most recent methods of I&C technology.
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Supercomputer performance was achieved on a single analogic visual microprocessor
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Supercomputer performance was achieved on a single analogic visual microprocessor by
academician Tamás Roska and his research team. Their results, made jointly with a
research team in Seville, have been demonstrated recently at an international technology
assessment meeting organized by the Office of Naval Research (US) in Budapest. Since 1992
the invention of the analogic CNN computer architecture by Roska and L.O.Chua this was the
first occasion to demonstrate that complex problems can be successfully solved in real
time based on the latest design. The measured performance - 1012 operations by
second on a single chip - is more than thousand times better compared to the time
performance of the available digital microprocessors in image processing related
computations.
The new chip serves as a camera and computer at the same time. Monitoring cardiac
diseases this chip can help the immediate evaluation of certain features of the human
heart in the ultrasoundechocardiography. It can also complete the detection of very fast
(30 thousand pictures/sec) phenomena like a sudden atomic gleam. The chip can possibly be
used in cars for detection of the position and velocity of passengers in order to control
the starting of airbags. A press conference on the Analogic Visual Microprocessors was
held in 1999. October 18th at Hotel Gellért.
The entire computational infrastructure of the new analogic cellular microprocessor has
been developed in the Analogical and Neural Computing Systems Laboratory of the Institute.
A number of novel analogic CNN algorithms has also been synthesized in several application
related studies. Recently, the members of this laboratory have completed 5 PhD and 3 DSc
dissertations, and made several internationally acknowledged contributions to the CNN
research field. Further details can be found at the following address: http://lab.analogic.sztaki.hu.
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HUNGARY CERT has been founded
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The Hungarian CERT (Computer Emergency
Response Team) wants to help prevention and management of security problems
in connection with the Internet. SZTAKI is one of the founders of HUNGARY CERT.
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