Scientific News

Upon László Monostori, director of the institute the Doctor honoris causa (Dr. h. c.) title of the Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary was conferred on November 23, 2022.

On 30 November 2022, the COPROLOGS project's final meeting was held at SZTAKI, coordinated by József Váncza, project leader.

On 29 November 2022, a high-level delegation from the University of Transport and Communications (UTC) of Vietnam visited SZTAKI. The delegation was led by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Long, President of the aforementioned University.

A conference on the ’Safety and Security Related Applications of UAVs in the Home Affairs Sector" was held in the Marble Hall in the Ministry for Home Affairs.

András Mihály, research associate at the SZTAKI Systems and Control Theory Research Laboratory, defended his PhD thesis with a prime result.

Dr Miklós Maróth, President of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network extended the mandate of Dr László Monostori as SZTAKI’s director by further 5 years.

Elisabeth Angyalka Ilie-Zudor, Director's Advisor at SZTAKI and senior researcher of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, will participate in a panel discussion where participants from European Partnerships will share their experiences.

The research and development (R&D) projects, developments and results of SZTAKI were presented to the delegation by the Institute's researchers. The American guests were mainly interested in aeronautical and automation solutions, therefore the programme was set accordingly.

The Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) project, financed by the COST programme, held its face-to-face annual Management Committee meeting hosted by the Department of Distributed Systems of SZTAKI on 13-14 October.

In the frame of the 4th ZalaZONE Innovation Day that was held on 30 September 2022 (4ZZID), ARNL researchers and developers held several live vehicle demonstrations for interested visitors and for the representatives of the Ministry of Technology and Industry (TIM) at the ZalaZONE automotive test track.

Péter Gáspár, Head of the Systems and Control Research Laboratory of SZTAKI, and also the Technical Director of the National Laboratory of Autonomous Systems (ARNL), held his inaugural lecture as an elected Full Member of the HAS on 19 October 2022.

Elisabeth Angyalka Ilie-Zudor, Director's Advisor at SZTAKI and senior researcher of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, will participate as an evaluation expert at the event on 11 November.

​​​​​​​SZTAKI researchers presented R&D projects and results to the delegation. During the presentations and demonstrations, the delegation could learn about SZTAKI’s developments in the fields of aviation, automation, artificial intelligence and machine vision and perception.

József Váncza, Head of the Research Laboratory for Engineering & Management Intelligence at SZTAKI, was elected as a member of the CIRP Council at the 71st General Assembly of the organisation.

The software developed in cooperation between Semmelweis University (SE), Ulyssys Ltd. and SZTAKI, using artificial intelligence to automatically analyse CT images and aids the early detection of cancer, could be a milestone in lung cancer diagnostics, said Béla Merkely, Rector of SE, at the closing event of the project in Budapest on Thursday.

The Research Cloud, a joint project of SZTAKI and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics, is helping the most advanced space telescope to spy on the cosmos: the James Webb spectral database is also computed on the ELKH Cloud.

For the first time in two years, SZTAKI welcomed visitors in person during the international programme series of Researchers’ Night.

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.

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.

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.