Announcements

Five students have been selected as PhD candidates in the context of the joint PhD programs between IIT Demokritos and the following institutions:

On 12 February 2013, a physical meeting with the biomedical experts of the BioASQ project took place at the premises of NCSR-"Demokritos".

The first POSCON network meeting took place on 23-24 January 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 15 network members and 2 advising experts from 12 countries took part as well as a representative from Insafe coordination team and from the European Commission, as well as two participants from the coordinator.

Participation in the 1st plenary meeting of the BioASQ project at Grenoble.

05-06/02/2013: SKEL participated in the kick-off meeting of the project PREPARE at Karlshrue/ Germany

The first task of the BioASQ challenge (Task1a: Large-scale online biomedical semantic indexing) started on Monday 22th of April, 2013. To make the participation easier, the task has been divided into three consecutive periods (batches) of 6 weekly tests each. Separate winners will be announced for each batch. Participation in the task can be partial, i.e. in some of the batches and some of the weekly tests.

The Project PREPARE started on 01/02/2013. The Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL)/ Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT) participates in the project together with the Environmental Research Laboratory (EREL) and the Research Reactor Laboratory (RRL) from the Institute of Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection (INTRP).

An article on gov.insight, IIT's text analytics service for public consultations, published at Naftemporiki's printed edition and at kerdos.gr (http://www.kerdos.gr/default.aspx?id=1869169&nt=103).

Mία πραγματικά καινοτόμα εφαρμογή που δημιουργεί περιλήψεις των ειδήσεων από πολλές πηγές σε ένα ενιαίο κείμενο! Πρόκειται για ένα ευφυές κολάζ από όλες τις διαφορετικές πληροφορίες που θα είχατε αν διαβάζατε όλα τα άρθρα, από όλες τις πηγές (αν και όταν θα είχατε το χρόνο!).

Αξιοποιεί κορυφαία τεχνολογία τεχνητής νοημοσύνης για να κάνει σύνοψη πληροφοριών, ξεχωρίζοντας τα πράγματα που διαφέρουν από τον πλεονασμό. Και όλα αυτά με τον πιο φιλικό, δοκιμασμένο και αποτελεσματικό τρόπο.

In the context of the existing cooperation agreement between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos", a PhD fellowship program was formed leading to the award of a PhD degree in the name of UNT, in the area of Informatics & Telecommunications. This is a joint program between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UNT (http://www.cse.unt.edu) and the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR.