International Desktop Grid Federation Press Release
07.10.10 09:08

Addressing European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes' vision

Amsterdam, 2010-09-15, Currently, about half a million computers from people at home contribute each day unused computing time to science. This already is a considerable contribution to scientists who need computing power to solve important problems, such as the energy crisis, the design of new drugs, and the spreading of disease. However, with more than one billion PCs in the world the computational power, available to scientists could easily be increased a hundred fold, speeding up the process of scientific discovery. The International Desktop Grid Federation, officially launched today in Amsterdam, assists in that process, by bringing together operators of and developers for Volunteer Desktop Grids. By exchanging information, providing training and support to its members, and by helping new Volunteer Desktop Grids to be started. The International Desktop Grid Federation is an initiative from the partners of the EDGI and DEGISCO projects, but meanwhile also others have joined. If people do not wish to lag behind in Desktop Grid computing, they need to join. IDGF will help the vision Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes expressed in her 14 September release: "European researchers' access to greater computing power will help them to tackle major research challenges in areas such as climate change and healthcare. The European Grid Infrastructure will help strengthen Europe's hand in research and give our scientists the support they need, whilst saving energy and cutting costs." IDGF will take care Volunteer Desktop Grids can be seamlessly integrated into the European Grid Infrastructure.

Read the complete press release also in other languages in desktopgridfederation.org/news-archive

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Intelligent Control of Robotic Arms
26.08.10 09:32

Robots support human activity in several areas, moreover at places such as the hot and dusty mines of Australia intelligent devices are expected to completely replace humans in regard to certain tasks. Controlling them however, takes considerable effort and well-developed skills. HAS’ Computer and Automation Research Institute is collaborating with professor Tom Gedeon of the National University in Australia to produce controlling devices that are intuitive and easy to use for humans.

We have two approaches to solving the issue of easy and effortless controlling. One way is to teach these robots to operate on their own without external instructions, meaning that they’ll have to be able to decipher the intentions of their human controllers. Similar to this approach is the utilization of eye-movement following techniques which would be feasible to control these machines in a direct way. We believe that there’s great potential in this approach, said professor Tom Gedeon in his guest presentation at HAS’ Computer and Automation Research Institute.

Programming robots capable of co-operation has only been simulated yet. In a recent experiment robots had to place different objects in their proper places on a checkered board. An important aspect of the experiment was that the objects could only be moved by two players: robots or human controllers. Scientists set up three different conditions to find the most effective outcome: in the first situation two people controlled a robotic arm, in the second condition there were one human-controlled arm, and an automated robotic arm, while in the third situation two automated robots worked on the task.

Results proved that in all cases the robot controlled by the two humans was the slowest to complete the task, the co-operation of the robot and its human controller proved to be the fastest problem solver. Scientists also wished to find out what happens when the robots are provided with extra information beyond only the movements controlled by humans. Researchers used data from human eye-movement detection for this follow-up experiment. The robots’ task was to try to "guess" where to place certain objects based on the directions human players directed their looks. Results showed that these robots performed just as well as the most effective group from the previous experiment (human and robot co-operation).

The Australian Government has been committed to replace human work force with robotic solutions in our mines within the following two decades. If we could use human eye-movements to control robots so that they act automatically, we would make a giant leap in expanding their applicability, Tom Gedeon said, adding: besides the programming of these robots, finding practical solutions to make them follow the movements of the human eye is a top priority for my research group.

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Oktober 2008
SYSTEMS München 
Seit 1969 bis 2008 wurde SYSTEMS in München veranstaltet
Bilder 2008: http://picasaweb.google.de/dbforum01/SystemsMNchen2008#
Bilder 2005: http://picasaweb.google.de/dbforum01/SystemsMNchen2005#
 
September 2008
7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL SYSTEMS
Debrecen, Hungary   September 3-5, 2008
weitere Informationen: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/dapsys/
 
Mai 2008
Jahrestagung 2008 - 20 Jahre cecmg vom 28. bis 30. Mai 2008 in Hamburg
weitere Informationen: http://www.cecmg.de/page12/page21/page21.html

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November 2007
8. November 2007,  Dresden, Germany
Expertenseminar TU Dresden
"Software im industriellen Maßstab" Tamas Szabo
Softwaregurus, Theorien, Modewellen seit über 40 Jahren
aber was zählt sind Fakten und Zahlen aus der Praxis,
Fakultät Informatik
Nöthnitzer Str. 46,
Raum 1004 (Ratssaal)

Oktober 2007
23-26 Oktober 2007,  München, Germany
Systems 2007 Business-Center für IT, Digitale Medien und Telekommunikation.
Am 24. Oktober im Bereich der WEB 2.0 Anwendungen besondere Innovationen. Volle Auftragsbücher und eine hohe Besucherqualität freuten sich die Aussteller. Etwa 10 Prozent mehr Besucher und bis zu 30 Prozent mehr qualifizierte Kundenkontakte als im Vorjahr.

September 2007
25-27 September 2007,  Leipzig, Germany
5th International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems  http://www.ceemas.org/ceemas07
General chair:       László Z. Varga, Hungary   MTA SZTAKI

August 2007
6th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory
27.8.2007.     http://www.conferences.hu/fct2007/
Budapest ist eine Reise Wert!    ....Bilder

Juni 2007
Summer School on Grid Application Support
25.- 30. Juni 2007 Budapest  http://www.egee.hu/grid07/

Februar 2007
23 February 2007 BME Centre of Information Technology,
Building I, Room 017 (Club of Informatics),
http://www.ik.bme.hu/esemenyek/GRIDiparinap.php
Grid portal and desktop Grid technologies  (english)

Januar 2007
29.1.2007.  16:00 - MTA SzTAKI - 1111 Budapest XI, Kende utca 13-17
A Basis for Comprehensive Diagnosis in Complex Process Systems (english)

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Oktober 2006
SYSTEMS 2006 IT-Fachmesse in München  
http://www.systems-world.de


Juli  2006  
EGEE Grid Sommerschule in Budapest   
Inhalte:     http://egee.hu/grid06/

Januar 2006
Kompetenzzentrum für Mobile Innovationen in Budapest eröffnet

Oktober 2005

Hightech FORUM
Eröffnungskonferenz
SZTAKI Budapest 

Anwendungsorientierte Forschung

IT-Konferenz
IBM Bildungszentrum
München - September 2004

"Software-Architekturen heute - Hypothek der Vergangenheit?"

IT-Konferenz 
Siemens Anwenderverein JUSTSAVE
München - August 2004

Vortrag von  Herrn T. Szabó
"Forschung und Entwicklung in Ungarn"

Nearshore Projekte  
Softwaremodernisierung   
ITP-Panorama-Toolset mit Software-Check