The finals of the University Programming Marathon (UPM) took place on Saturday, 15 October 2016, in Ljubljana. Each year, teams from Slovenia's three universities compete for the UPM Champions title and the title on individual universities. At the same time, the team also compete to qualify for the CERC Europe Central Regional Contest 2016.
Presenting UP FAMNIT and DIST at the Scholarships fair in Rijeka
"The Higher Education and Scholarships Fair" was held on 13th of October at the University of Rijeka. Among other European Universities and countries were also University of Primorska and UP FAMNIT. DIST presented a couple of student projects, which attracted many students. More in photos.
Seminar “Information Technology Services at the University of Auckland” Blaž Zabukovec (17. 10. 2016)
Blaž Zabukovec will held the next seminar on Monday, 17th of October at 4PM. The seminar will take place in Mala Predavalnica at UP FAMNIT (FAMNIT-1-MP2), Glagoljaška 8, Koper.
Four student papers presented at the HCI-IS 2016 conference
Slovenian HCI conference HCI-IS 2016 took place on 11th October 2016 as a venue in the multiconference IS 2016. The aim of HCI-IS is bringing together researchers, practitioners and spectators interested in research area of Human-computer interaction.
Prof. dr. Tomaž Pisanski (head of the DIST department) receiver of the “Donald Michie and Alan Turing” award for his lifetime achievements
Today, on 10th of October 2016, prof. dr. Tomaž Pisanski received the "Donald Michie and Alan Turing" award for his lifetime achievements. He received the award at the opening ceremony of the 19th International Multiconference Information Society – IS 2016 organized by the Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute.
UPM’s third round 2016
The third round of the University programming marathon (UPM) took place on Thursday, 06/10/2016, in Maribor, Koper and Ljubljana. Participation in Koper was severely curtailed. Nonetheless, the participants started seriously, but not enough to put together a good solution to the problems prepared.
Researchers’ night in pictures
Researchers' Night was held throughout Slovenia on 30. 9. 2016. The members of DIST department were present in Taverna in Koper. We presented echolocation learning experience in cooperation with the Škocjan caves Park, comic Beaver carts with augmented reality content, making of 3D digital statue, and Head-mounted display controllable remote camera.
Below are some pictures from the event.
The RTV Slovenia morning show “Dobro jutro” with DIST member about Researchers’ Night
The RTV Slovenia show "Dobro Jutro" (literaly Good Morning) is a dynamic morning program aired every weekday. It is intertwined with the studio talks and live events from different parts of Slovenia. It has advisory, educational, entertainment and informational content. On the 29th of September they hosted also the vice-rector dr. Boris Boris Kavur, dr. Matjaž Kljun and Matej Voglar, who talked about Researchers' Night event taking place also at the University of Primorska.
Seminars “Google Maps and AngularJs directive Gmap” and “The use of data structure Bloom filter in the field of digital forensics” (26. 9. 2016)
Two lectures will be held on Monday, 26 September 2016, at 4PM as the part of the Research Seminar lectures series. The lectures are titled "Google Maps and AngularJs Directive Gmap" and "The use of data structure Bloom filter in the field of digital forensics." The seminar is organized by the Department of Information Science and Technology from UP FAMNIT and UP IAM.
Microsoft Information Workshop at UP FAMNIT
On Tuesday, 20.09.2016, Microsoft Slovenia prepared a short workshop about Microsoft technologies and solutions in the large lecture room at FAMNIT.