ECBG on the Polish Roadmap for Research Infrastructures

Posted on Thursday February 2nd, 2017 by Szymon Wąsik

In 2015, the Faculty of Informatics of the Poznan University of Technology, in cooperation with European Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, which was created under the project of the same name (ECBiG), was listed on the prestigious Polish Roadmap for Research Infrastructure (PMDIB). This status has been achieved through long & fruitful team-work with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS). The principle idea that led the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and its co-researchers to these actions was the establishment or specialization of scientific structures of exceptional importance for the development of research across the country. Ultimately, only 53 key points for the growth of Polish science and economy, including the European Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, are placed on this Roadmap.

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Poznan Game Jam 2017

Posted on Wednesday February 1st, 2017 by Szymon Wąsik

The 4th edition of Poznan Game Jam was hosted by our Faculty from 20th to 22nd January 2017. It is a 48 hours marathon in which the participants design and program computer games.

The event was very popular, with 70 people who created 17 games in total. The projects ranged from simple HTML5 or Unity3D based ideas to more advanced ones that used eye tracking technology or smartphones with sophisticated indoor sensors. All of the games can be found here.

Poznan Game Jam 2017 short summary video can be found here.

This year the event was organized by four people: Jędrzej Marszałkowski, Paweł Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Odasz and Jakub Marszałkowski.

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IEEE Fellow for Prof. Roman Slowinski

Posted on Thursday November 24th, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

Prof. Roman Slowinski became IEEE Fellow for his contributions to dominance-based rough set theory, robust ordinal regression and preference learning.

This title is given to less than 0,1% of IEEE members each year, for their contribution to science, practical experience and education.

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Great achievement in ACM-ICPC competition in Central European Region for Poznan University of Technology

Posted on Tuesday November 22nd, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

Team of our students, Szymon Wolarz, Adam Krasuski and Bartosz Prusak, finished on 15th place in the Central European Region competition in team programming ACM-ICPC.

In the category of technical universities we were on second place, just behind Prague University of Technology, which means that Poznan University of Technology is yet again the best Polish technical university in this competition. It is worth noting that the competition favours non-technical universities, because the tasks given to the participants are more of a theoretical type than taken from practice.

Congratulations to the students and we wish them more successes to come!

The results can be viewed here.

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Let’s Roq: The machine learning competition for Poznan University of Technology students

Posted on Thursday November 3rd, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

Today, machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, in terms of both theoretical research and practical applications. Based on this trend, numerous companies are eager to get involved by organizing machine learning competitions for the students at Poznan University of Technology.

Roq.ad, Europe’s leading cross-device technology provider, and Poznan University of Technology are currently working in tandem to organize and bring students the “Let’s Roq” challenge. The competition’s key task for students is to find the best supervised algorithm for cross-device connections. It’s a very relevant and challenging real-life problem we face with today due to the rapid growth of the online advertising industry.

As a company, Roq.ad is a successful start-up headquartered in Berlin. Its engineering team is, however, almost entirely based in Poznan. That being said, the solutions proposed by Roq.ad are also strongly based on machine learning technologies.

During competition, students will face the task of estimating the probability that two given devices belong to the same user. It is worth noting that data made available for students is coming from actual Internet traffic. Of course, all sensitive information has been removed to prevent identification of devices and users.

All students of Poznan University of Technology are invited to participate in the competition (including graduate students). The student teams will compete for a prize pool of 10 000 PLN and gain the opportunity to complete an internship within Roq.ad’s data science team.

For more information about the competition, please consult the following sources:
https://challenge.roq.ad and
https://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/kjasinska/lectures/mmds-challenge/letsroq/

Competition Launch:

November 4, 2016, at. 9:45, room 125BT (during the lecture: The Mining of Massive Datasets Challenge taught by dr. Krzysztof Dembczyński).

Consultation hours (to discuss problems and get valuable hints or tips):

Tuesdays, 16:50-18:20 or 18:30-20:00, room 43 CW (supervised by Kalina Jasinska, M.Sc.)

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Data Ninja: A data mining competition for students organized by the OLX Group

Posted on Tuesday October 18th, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

The second edition of the data mining competition organized by the OLX Group and universities in Poznań will be launched soon. This time the challenge is to create a predictive model for assigning correct categories to announcements submitted to the OLX service. The student teams will compete for a prize pool of 10 000 PLN and internships at the OLX Group.

The OLX Group invites all students of Poznan University of Technology, Adam Mickiewicz University, and Poznan University of Economics and Business to participate in the “Data Ninja” competition.

For more information please attend the first meeting on Friday, October 21, 2016, at 9:45 in room 125BT (it will be held during the lecture of The Mining of Massive Datasets Challenge taught by dr. Krzysztof Dembczyński).

Afterwards, the consultation hours for the participants of the competition will take place on Tuesdays, 16:50-18:20 or 18:30-20:00, in room 43 CW. They will be supervised by Kalina Jasinska, M.Sc.

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Best Master Thesis in Bioinformatics in 2015 award

Posted on Sunday October 16th, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

The results of the Best Master Thesis in Bioinformatics in 2015 competition has been announced during the IX Symposium of Polish Society of Bioinformatics, 28-30th September 2016,

Among the three awarded theses one was written by Jakub Bartoszewicz, our graduate of the macro-studies Bioinformatics held by Faculty of Computing at Poznan University of Technology. His thesis entitled “Optymalizacja nakładek oligonukleotydowych w klonowaniu metodą CPEC i obliczeniach molekularnych” (eng. “Optimization of oligonucleotide overlays in cloning using CPEC method and molecular computations”) was conducted in our Institute under the supervision of prof. Piotr Formanowicz.

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EURO 2016 conference in Poznan!

Posted on Wednesday June 29th, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

The 28th European Conference on Operational Research, in short EURO 2016, will be held from 3rd of July to 6th of July at Poznan University of Technology campus.

Institute of Computing Science is organizing the conference this year, therefore we would like to invite you to attend the conference.

We especially encourage you to listen to the open lecture given by prof. Robert Aumann, a Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences, which will be held on 5th of July in the Earth Hall at the Poznan International Fair at 17:30.

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Bioinformatics and the beginning of life – interview

Posted on Friday May 13th, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

On the 7th of May in the TV show “Rozmowy niedokończone” (eng. “Unfinished talks”) an interview with prof. Jacek Błażewicz and prof. Marta Szachniuk has been held. The interview was about bioinformatics and its influence on the world. You can watch the full interview following this link (only in Polish).

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Highlights on the Wikipedia

Posted on Monday May 2nd, 2016 by Szymon Wąsik

Scientific paper entitled “Hypercycle” written by J. Błażewicz, N. Szóstak and Sz. Wąsik, has been published in PLOS Computational Biology journal,

This journal has a collection of articles concerning key factors from the computational biology, which is called “Topic Pages”. The article has been also featured in a highlight on the Wikipedia.

Hypercycle screenshot

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