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Best Paper Prize
2004/06/14

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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Visits from diplomatic spheres to the SZTAKI
2003/05/09

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.

Hungarian GRID Competency Center
2003/03/14

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.

Award for Young Scientists by the Academy
2003/03/14

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.

Visits from diplomatic spheres to the SZTAKI
2003/03/14

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.

First prize of the 'Agentcities Technology Competition and Exhibition'
2003/02/06

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.

Farkas Gyula Prize
2003/01/28

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.