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Researchers’ Night 2017

As a part of the Researchers’ Night, which took place on September 29, 2017, scientists from the Department of Information Systems organized workshops “WHAT DO YOU THINK? GUIDE FOR SMALL PROGRAMMERS “(MSc. Piotr Kałużny, Dr. Bartosz Perkowski) for children aged 8 to 12 and “WHAT DO YOU THINK? INTERNET WITHOUT SECRETS” (Dr. Agnieszka Figiel, MSc. Agata Szyszko, MSc. Włodzimierz Lewoniewski) for people over 15 years old. Researchers’ Night is an … Read More

Lecture on the quality of Wikipedia in High School No. 12 in Poznań

On May 31, 2017 Włodzimierz Lewoniewski provided lectures and workshops for pupils of the High School no 12 in Poznań as part of the Infizmania project. The topic focused on the quality of information on Wikipedia in various languages. During the lectures pupils learned about the development and popularity of Wikipedia, its important principles, and the comparison with traditional encyclopaedias (such as Encyclopedia Britannica, Great PWN Encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia). … Read More

Piotr Jankowiak, Piotr Kałużny i Dr. Bartosz Perkowski participated in NetMob 2017 conference

Between 5th and 7th April two second year students of master studies with specialization in Information Systems at the Faculty of Informatics and Electronic Economy: Piotr Jankowiak and Piotr Kałużny had the opportunity to attend an international scientific conference in Milan. Together with Dr. Bartosz Perkowski from the Department of Information Systems, they took part in this year’s edition of NetMob. NetMob is the biggest in the world scientific conference … Read More

Lectures by Dr. Eng. Anna Lamek at the North China University of Science and Technology

Dr. Eng. Anna Lamek from 03.01.2017 to 13.01.2017 gave an invited lectures entitled “Production Engineering 1” (40 hours) and “Production Engineering 2” (40 hours) at the North China University of Science and Technology in Tangshan (Hebei Province), China. During her stay students had also an opportunity to accomplish an engineering project concerning application of Information Systems to manufacturing management.

Prof. Witold Abramowicz and Dr. Agata Filipowska participated in the fifth edition of Big Data Congress

On the 22 – 23 November 2016, the fifth edition of the Big Data Congress took place, in which the Honorary Chairman of the Program Council is Prof. Witold Abramowicz. The Congress is attended by all significant suppliers of products and services concerning Big Data. In the current edition, there were approximately 650 participants. Once again, the moderator of the acclaimed panel of experts was Dr. Agata Filipowska from the … Read More

Speech by prof. dr. Witold Abramowicz during the plenary session of the Committee of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Prof. Witold Abramowicz on 15 November 2016, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Committee of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, took part in the plenary session, in which, together with prof. Krzysztof Jajuga led the discussion on “Big Data in the economy”.

Wikipedia References & Citations challenge

Dr. Krzysztof Węcel received the award for the best paper in the Wikipedia Citations and Reference Challenge on September 15, 2016, as part of the DBpedia Community Meeting organized at the SEMANTiCS2016 conference in Leipzig. The materials for the presentation entitled “(Not only) Polish citations – analysis, comparison, directions” were largely collected during the summer student internships organized by the Department of Information Systems under the Pro-Quality Grant. Apart from … Read More