Announcements

Την Τρίτη 19 Ιουνίου 2012 οργανώσαμε ημερίδα για τους υποψήφιους διδάκτορες του Ινστιτούτου Πληροφορικής &Τηλεπικοινωνιών (ΙΠ&Τ), όπου εκτός από τις σύντομες παρουσιάσεις από κάθε υποψήφιο διδάκτορα, υπήρξαν και παρουσιάσεις από μετα-διδακτορικούς ερευνητές του ΙΠ&Τ.

Tο Ινστιτούτο Π&Τ του ΕΚΕΦΕ «Δ», στο πλαίσιο υλοποίησης των ερευνητικών προγραμμάτων «SAVASA-Standards Based Approach to Video Archive Search and Analysis», «ALICANTE -Media Ecosystem Deployment Trough Ubiquitous Content-Aware Network Environments», «Επίγεια Ψηφιακή τηλεόραση ως ευρυζωνική υποδομή» και «GERYON-Next generation technology independent interoperability of emergency services», προσκαλεί τους ενδιαφερόμενους να υποβάλλουν εκδήλωση ενδιαφέροντος για 4 θέσεις εξωτερικών συνεργατών.

Following its successfull penetration in the Greek public transport community, OptiTrans was featured in the news portal Pathfinder. Pathfinder is one of the most visited news Greek web portals and covers a wide range of fields. OptiTrans was featured in the field of technology-sciences in the rubric "Technologein". Mr. Rizopoulos, journalist and director of "Technologein" visited the IIT premises, was informed about the OptiTrans, and made interview with Dr. Stelios Thomopoulos and the OptiTrans Staff.

MNL (Media Networks Laboratory) researchers are involved in and contributing to the Future Internet Reference Architecture (FIArch) Working Group of the European Commission, which is working towards architectural recommendations for the Internet of the Future. MNL participated to the 3rd FIArch workshop (Brussels, Feb 22, 2012), which finalised a document on the proposed Design Principles for the Future Internet.

The fourth IIT newsletter, with news about participation to large conferences and working groups, and dissemination of our technologies and research results, has been sent out!

We are pleased to announce the 3rd edition of the Pascal Large Scale Hierarchical Text Classification (LSHTC) and ECML/PKDD 2012 Discovery Challenge. The LSHTC Challenge is a hierarchical text classification competition, using large datasets. This year's challenge focuses on interesting learning problems like multi-task and refinement learning.

The project "Innovation Transfer of DEDALOS project, for teaching English as a second language to deaf people, whose first language is the Sign Language, via e-learning tools" (ENFORA) was awarded the European e-learning award in 2010.

Net Media Lab Team
Coordinator: Dr. Athanasios Drigas

The article was:

Drigas, A.S., Koukianakis, L.G., Glentzes, J.G., An ODL system and Virtual Class for the electrical engineering
sector. - and the report is entitled "E-learning within the building and construction and allied trades" by Lin Thompson and Reece Lamshed.

The article that was included was:

A.S. Drigas, J. Vrettaros, D. Kouremenos, "E-learning Environment for Deaf people in the E-Commerce and New Technologies Sector", 2004.

The report was entitled: "Empowerment for Americans with Disabilities: Breaking Barriers to Careers and Full Employment".

Under its congressional mandate, the National Council on Disability NCD is charged with the responsibility to gather information on the development and implementation of federal laws, programs, and initiatives that affect people with disabilities.