Foreword

Dear Readers,

This summer we invite you at NCSR 'Demokritos' to participate in the 5th Hellenic Forum for Science, Technology & Innovation, and in the 52nd NCSR 'Demokritos' Summer School, both scheduled for July. Hurry up, the application process is still open!

Further to our reach-out policy in Education, a new MSc (Master of Science) in Data Science is about to start at NCSR 'Demokritos' this September. This is the result of a collaboration between our Institute and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of the Peloponnese. Given the exponential growth and availability of data, it is more than obvious that specializing in data handling opens access to new career options and paths, so look at how such a course could help you better position yourself in the job market.

For the 4th consecutive year, we organize SMARTcamp, a summer science camp for students age 12 to 18. The camp offers intensive weekly courses that target Digital Arts, Animation and Robotics.

In February 2017, iGuide Knossos achieved some significant milestones. The 3D digital guide got the Greenlight by the STEAM community and soon it is expected to be distributed through this ultimate online game platform. Additionally, our Institute completed the first pilot project of iGuide Knossos to integrate this digital application into the educational process, in conjunction with the Greek-German Educational Schools in Pallini, Attica.

In the same direction, we have organised with great success, two pioneer Educational Programs for Greek schools. Both programs have completed end May, the first on Robotics and Autonomous Systems and the second on Databases and Big Data. We have participated in the Open Day NCSR 2017, and we had many demos both at the pre-event "Mind the Lab" and also at the main event of Athens Science Festival 2017, one of the biggest celebrations of science and technology in Greece.

Researchers from IIT have been awarded a patent, end January, by the Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation, for their "Method for Managing Networks of Interconnected Objects".

Apart from the above, researchers from IIT have organised the 5th BioASQ Challenge, a reference point for biomedical semantic indexing & question answering, the MultiLing 2017 Workshop, the ieWomen, a Workshop on innovation and employability for Women, and the 2nd Workshop on European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food. For the 23rd year in a row, we were part of the Organizing Committee of the Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXVI at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing that took place at Anaheim, California, USA, where we presented three research papers. IIT had also a very strong presence in the Hellenic Innovation Forum 2017, a multi-conference bringing together the researchers, academics and entrepreneurs behind new innovative ideas, products and services.

Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, IIT Director

Research

29 March - 2 April: ISL at the Athens Science Festival 2017
Equipped with knowledge and open access to innovative tools we can now invent new technologies, manufacture fantastic creations and take science into our own hands "Shaping our future"! With this motto, the celebration of Science and Innovation, the Athens Science Festival, returned once again in Technopolis, inviting and challenging us to dive into the technology of the future: drones, internet of things, virtual reality and robotic cars. Technologies demonstrated by the Integrated Systems Lab (ISL) of IIT attracted great public interest. Read more

29 March - 2 April: WayGoo was once again the official navigation platform of ASF

Visitors of the Athens Science Festival 2017 have extensively used the WayGoo app, developed by the Integrated Systems Lab (ISL) of IIT, to navigate around the festival and get real time information about the events, exhibitions and booths. Read more

New task for the BioASQ challenge

The BioASQ challenge, organised for the 5th year in a row by SKEL Lab of IIT, has already been established as a reference point for biomedical semantic indexing & question answering. The challenge introduced this year, in collaboration with NIH/NLM, a new task in extraction of funding information from biomedical literature. Read more

• 30 April: Roboskel Lab's "Smart Room" presented in Prisma Magazine, in an article entitled "Robots in assisted living environments". Read more
• 20 April: The European project RADIO, coordinated by the Roboskel Lab of IIT, was presented at the weekly newspaper "Kosmos tis Patras". Read more

More in Research
• 31 January - Patent: N. Dimitriou, K. Kontovasilis, C. Spyropoulos, NCSR 'Demokritos', "Method for Managing Networks of Interconnected Objects", OBI Patent Number 1008939. Read more
• A Net Media Lab's article has been included in a study for E-Government's national policy in Ukraine. Read more
• A Net Media Lab's article has been included in a study for Virtual Learning Environments & Dyslexia's national policy in UK. Read more

Publications: Books, Journal articles, Conference papers

New R&D Projects
• Google DNI StoryBot (started)
• IASIS (Integration and analysis of heterogeneous big data for precision medicine and suggested treatments for different types of patients) (started)
• SAINT (Systemic Analyser in Network Threats) (started)
Complete list of R&D Projects

Events

Upcoming! 5-7 July: 5th Hellenic Forum for Science, Technology & Innovation

Registration is open for the 5th Forum, taking place at NCSR "Demokritos" premises. IIT will organise a workshop titled "Challenges to exploit Big Maritime Data", while Dr. C. Spyropoulos is coordinating the Program Committee. Find out more

Upcoming! 26 June-7 July: SMARTcamp - summer science workshop for students

Knowledge, Creativity, Digital Arts & Informatics! For another year in a row, the Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) of IIT will organise the SMARTcamp summer workshop. 3 courses will take place for students from 14 to 18 years old. Read more

30 May: ISL at "OPEN DAY NCSR 2017: Exploring Science"

With the PYRONES (PYRo-mOdelliNg and Evacuation Simulation) system, the Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) participated in the "OPEN DAY NCSR 2017: Exploring Science" event. The event was organised in the context of the European Union-wide campaign "Europe in My Region". Read more

9-13 April: ISL at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference

For the 23rd year in a row, we were part of the Organizing Committee of the Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXVI at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing that took place at Anaheim, California, USA. Read more

3-7 April: MultiLing 2017 Workshop organised by SKEL Lab

Dr. G. Giannakopoulos organised a Workshop with the title "MultiLing 2017: Summarization and summary evaluation across source types and genres" in the context of the "15th EACL Conference - EACL 2017", which took place between 3 and 7 April in Valencia, Spain. Read more

1st April: YDS Dissemination Day

Updates from European project Your Data Stories (YDS) were presented by Dr. G. Petasis (SKEL Lab) at the IntegrityHackathon at Harokopeio University and by Dr. M. Vafopoulos (SKEL Lab) in the Workshop "E-Marketing & New Media", in Limassol, Cyprus.

31 March: Workshop co-organised by IIT

The 2nd workshop on "European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food", a joint workshop of the Big Data Europe H2020 Coordination and Support Action (CSA) and the e-ROSA H2020 CSA, was organised in Brussels, Belgium. Read more

21 March: A Deep Look on How Artificial Intelligence Affects Business

The 1st Artificial Intelligence Conference was organised in Athens, Greece. Dr. C. Spyropoulos from SKEL Lab of IIT, was member of the Scientific Committee, while Dr. G. Petasis, also from SKEL Lab, gave a talk on the exploitation of open government data. Read more

1-3 March: WiCom Lab participated in iWAT 2017

Dr. A. Alexandridis from the Wireless Communications (WiCom) Lab, participated in the Organizing Committee (as Publications Chair) of the International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT 2017), held in Athens, Greece. E. Andreou presented a poster paper "Magneto-dielectric Substrate Influence on the Efficiency of a Reconfigurable Patch Antenna". Read more

1-2 March: Strong Presence of IIT at HIF2017

Dr. S.C.A. Thomopoulos, Director of IIT and head of CIL Lab, was member of the Steering Committee of the Hellenic Innovation Forum 2017 (HIF17), which took place betwewen 1-2 March, in Athens, Greece. Dr. G. Paliouras from SKEL Lab was between the speakers, and Dr. C. Spyropoulos also attended the event. The HIF17 multi-conference brought together researchers, academics and entrepreneurs behind new innovative ideas, products and services. Read more

2 March: Net Media Lab of IIT organized a Workshop on "Innovation and Employability for Women" (ieWomen)

The "ieWomen" workshop, which tool place at the main auditorium of NCSR "Demokritos", aimed at highlighting current developments in technology in terms of involving and sensitizing women to ICT technologies and the benefits of the use of such technologies in the field of employment, entrepreneurship and innovation. Read more

BioASQ begins new collaboration with DBCLS

BioASQ initialized a new collaboration with the DBCLS Research Institute, on using linked annotations in biomedical question answering, participating at the third Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH3) in Tokyo, Japan, 16-20 January 2017. A. Nentidis from SKEL Lab, IIT, was invited by DBCLS to present BioASQ during BLAH3. Read more

IIT participated in numerous Scientific Events

Between September and December 2016 researchers from IIT participated in Conferences like 'AI2017', 'BIOINFORMATICS 2017', 'EACL 2017', 'EGU 2017', 'European Robotics Forum 2017', 'HIF 2017', 'HRI 2017', 'ICT4AWE 2017', 'Int. Conference in Applied Theory, Macro & Empirical Finance', 'iWAT 2017', 'Μ2Μ/ΙοΤ Forum' & Workshops like 'E-Marketing & New Media', 'European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food', 'ieWomen', 'MAISoN17', 'MultiLing 2017'.

• 23-28 April: Dr. I. Klampanos from SKEL Lab partcipated in the "EGU General Assembly 2017", in Vienna, Austria. Read more
• 21-22 April: Dr. M. Vafopoulos from SKEL Lab represented IIT, NCSR "D" at the 3rd International Conference in Applied Theory, Macro and Empirical Finance in Thessaloniki, Greece. Read more
• 22 February: Dr. C. Spyropoulos from SKEL Lab participated, as invited panelist, in the "Smart Factory Conference", which took place in Athens, Greece. Read more
• 17-18 January: Dr. V. Karkaletsis & Dr. S. Konstantopoulos from SKEL Lab participated in the "Information and Networking Day Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 – ICT 14, 15, 16, 17", in Luxembourg. Read more

Education

Upcoming! A new MSc (Master of Science) in Data Science about to start at NCSR 'Demokritos' this September

This is the result of a collaboration between the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of the Peloponnese. Deadline for applications: July 14, 2017. Find out more

Upcoming! 3-14 July: Summer School

NCSR "Demokritos", continuing a long tradition, organizes its 52nd Summer School of Orientation and Information in the areas of Environment, Advanced Materials, Micro-Nanotechnology, Basic Research,Information and Telecommunication Technologies, Life Sciences, New Technologies and Cultural Heritage. Read more

15 April: Tribute to SKEL Lab's Training Programs from the Prism Magazine

With an article titled "From Lab to School: Educational programs for pupils at NCSR Demokritos", the Prisma Magazine of the daily newspaper "Avgi" praised the Educational Programs organized by the Software & Knowledge Engineeting Lab (SKEL lab). Read more

14-15 February: iGuide Knossos goes to school!

On Febraruy 14th & 15th of 2017, a group of researchers from the Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) of NCSR "Demokritos" completed the first pilot of iGuide Knossos in the scholastic environment, aiming to incorporate the digital application into the educational process. Read more

PhD thesis completed

- Katzouris Nikolaos "Machine learning logic programs for event recognition", March 2017 Read more
- Paraskevopoulos Anastasios "Body-Centric Wireless Communications: Wearable antennas design, Channel modelling and Near Field measurements", March 2017 Read more
- Tsolis Aris "Wearable antennas: Design, Connectivity and Evaluation Measurement Techniques", Dec. 2016 Read more

Lecture series at IIT

The IIT Seminar series gives the opportunity to postgraduate students, to new or existing members of the Institute's labs, to internal and external (invited) speakers to present their work and establish collaborations. List of upcoming and past seminars

2016-17: topics for MSc/BSc Theses and internships by IIS

See all the topics proposed by the Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) Division of IIT, for MSc/BSc theses and internships for 2017-18, in scientific areas like algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, image analysis, and many more.

• 23 January: a prize called "PhD candidate of the Year" for Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL), was introduced during new year's cake celebration. The prize for 2016 was awarded to N. Katzouris. Read more
• Internships completed by: Papadatos Spyros, Dimitros Dimitris, Christinakis Dimitris & Makrinos Aggelos Read more

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