Informative News

Risk Factors - FUGA hosts exhibition of COURAGE project

06/21/2018 - 10:44

FUGA hosts the exhibition "Risk Factors", that shows the legacy of cultural opposition during the communist era through selected materials taken from well- and less-known archives in Eastern European countries. Archive photos, university samizdat, alternative works of art, punk magazines, illegal publications "bring back" the culture of the opposition, and demonstrate individual and community ways of opposition to the visitors. The collection is also available online in the virtual exhibition.

COURAGE project on the European Institutions Open Day 2018 in Brussels

05/08/2018 - 13:39

COURAGE H2020 project, along with six other projects, was invited to exhibit on the European Institutions Open Day 2018 in Brussels. In the event held on May 5, the selected projects aimed to demonstrate scientific research and innovations come to life under the H2020 framework.

Rudolf E. Kálmán Distinguished Lecturer Program

05/03/2018 - 08:01

The Institute for Computer Science and Control (MTA SZTAKI) Budapest, Hungary launches a lecture series to commemorate the intellectual heritage of late Prof. Rudolf E. Kálmán, who died in 2016 at the age of 86. The aim of this lecture series, which will be called Rudolf E. Kálmán Distinguished Lecturer Program, is to present some recent significant scientific results ‒ accomplished via the fruitful interaction of pure and applied sciences and scientific fields, such as mathematics, engineering, informatics and control theory ‒ in a generic and plain scientific manner to a fairly wide professional audience.

Call for a new smartphone competition on the National Day of Poetry

04/09/2018 - 08:48

After the successful smartphone outdoor competition last year, the Municipality of Ferencváros and the eLearning Department of MTA SZTAKI have jointly prepared and organised a new competition on the scenes of childhood of Attila József.

Muzeum@Digit 2017 conference

03/12/2018 - 16:02

Muzeum@Digit 2017 conference, organized by the Hungarian National Museum, focused on the current questions and sharing best practices regarding innovation and digital renewal. In the event held on November 28-29, András Micsik, senior researcher of the MTA SZTAKI Department of Distributed Systems gave a presentaton on the COURAGE EU project, the Linked Data approach and the long-term digital preservation.

BME to launch graduate course in self-drive engineering

02/05/2018 - 08:32

The Faculty of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is to launch an English-language graduate course in autonomous vehicle control engineering from September, state news wire MTI reported

SZTAKI had a very successful year in 2017, too!

12/18/2017 - 10:58

2017 brought to our Institute numerous high-profile professional programmes, scientific cooperation opportunities and industrial innovations. Besides our best-of-breed activities in basic research our staff concentrated intensively on developing solutions for the private sector as well as defining new services to the benefit of the community and society.

Our colleague was awared by the 2017 Technology Award of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering

11/06/2017 - 08:28

We congratulate Dr. Gábor Erdős, senior research fellow of the Engineering and Management Intelligence Laboratory of MTA SZTAKI, who was awarded jointly with Dr. Takahiro Nakano from Hitachi Yokohama Research Laboratory (YRL) the 2017 Technology Award of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE). Their honoured work supports reconstructing the model of complex engineering objects from three dimensional measurement data, so-called point clouds. The internationally patented results are applied now at elevator renewal and construction sites.

The first Hungarian film-tourism application has been released

10/24/2017 - 08:34

The first Hungarian film-tourism smartphone application has been created with the contribution of the eLearning Department of MTA SZTAKI. The application provides the most complete guide of one of the most popular film destination capitals, Budapest.

Digital Humanities - ERCIM News has been released

10/03/2017 - 13:00

In October, ERCIM News focuses on Digital Humanities, with László Kovács (head of the Department of Distributed Systems, MTA SZTAKI) being one of the editors of the special theme issue.

Szabadtéri tájékozódási vetélkedő és GPS-alapú interaktív okostelefonos séta a ferencvárosi költészet napján

08/14/2017 - 07:58

József Attila, a 20. századi magyar- és világirodalom kimagasló alakja Budapest IX. kerületében született 1905 áprilisában. 14 éves koráig Ferencváros volt az otthona. 2015-ben intézetünk eLearning Osztálya és a Ferencvárosi Helytörténeti Gyűjtemény egy GPS alapú, interaktív okostelefonos sétát készített „József Attilával a Ferencvárosban” néven. A 2017-es ferencvárosi költészet napi ünnepre a séta fejlesztői a kerületi diákok számára különleges szabadtéri tájékozódási vetélkedőt készítettek elő és szerveztek meg.

We support the Night of Museums by providing smart phone application again this year

06/14/2017 - 08:02

The 15th Night of Museums is organised on the 24th June this year which has become the most popular domestic event series for a long while. Across the country, more than 2000 events at some 380 locations vie for our attention. Its highlighted topic is value preservation and its capital is Debrecen this year. The eLearning Department of our institute supports the organisers and visitors by providing a smart phone application again this year.

Workshop on Accessibility

05/18/2017 - 08:55

The event organized by the Antall József Knowledge Centre focused on accessibility and the innovative solutions that support it. In the workshop, held on May 3 in Pécs, several applications that improve life for people with disabilities were demonstrated. László Kovács, head of the Department of Distributed Systems gave a presentation on Tolmácskesztyű (InterpreterGlove) and Symbio-TIC projects.

Go Digital! conference - knowledge preservation and digitalization

05/11/2017 - 08:43

"Go Digital!" conference, organised by the National University of Public Service, dealt with the current questions of digitalization regarding public collections, and focused on the challenges that museums, libraries and archives are facing in the field of knowlegde and information preservation. In the event held on May 2, László Kovács, head of the Department of Distributed Systems gave a presentation on long-term digital preservation.

Budapest Open Knowledge Meetup - open data and open formats in building construction

04/10/2017 - 09:22

The March event of the Budapest Open Knowledge Meetup series took place on March 23, titled “See through the walls!”

Successful review of the COURAGE project

03/31/2017 - 11:37

The COURAGE project had a successful project review on 28 March in Brussels. The project will create a comprehensive online database (digital registry) of existing but scattered collections on the histories and forms of cultural opposition in the former socialist countries and thereby make them more accessible.

D+ Sport smartphone application for health and active lifestyle

01/03/2017 - 16:28

D+ Sport developed by the eLearning Department of MTA SZTAKI is the first and only Hungarian language sport application. You can use it when you run, ride a bicycle or walk while the software measures your speed and the time needed to take a kilometre and logs the route which you can fly in street view later. It organises the photos taken during the walk into an album or puts them onto a map in order you can share with anyone where you went and what you saw!

2016 was again a successful year for SZTAKI

12/20/2016 - 10:30

2016 brought us numerous professional programmes, opportunities for scientific cooperation and industrial innovation. Besides the achievements of traditionally high quality in basic research, the Institute placed great emphasis on the applications in the private sector as well as the services rendered to the communities providing them significant societal benefits.

Tech is upending the ways we write, speak, and even think

12/09/2016 - 10:40

You are reading this article in English, but there are around 7,100 known living languages around the globe, according to Ethnologue. You wouldn’t know it from browsing the World Wide Web, though. We like to think of the web as a diverse place filled with the world’s knowledge, but only a fraction of active languages spoken around the globe are online at present. English and other dominant languages have a stranglehold on the internet, explained linguist and mathematician András Kornai in a recent scientific paper titled “Digital Language Death.” The future for a language that isn’t properly maintained and spoken online may not be rosy.

European Robotics Week

11/29/2016 - 07:12

European Robotics Week (ERW) has broken all records from previous years with over 800 events. The ERW offered one week of various interactive robotics related programs across Europe for the general public.