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Safety and equity as a policy of European Union

Prof. Czyzewski together with his co-workers presented developed multimodal interfaces for impaired people at the conference Safety and equity as a policy of European Union which was organised in the Owinska eye-sight impaired students care center (near Poznan). The new technological achievements were received very warmly by the audience. The President of the European Parliament, Prof. Jerzy Buzek who participated in the conference congratulated prof. Czyzewski and his team of researchers.

14.12.2009

Awards at Brussels Innova 2009 exhibition

On 18th-21th November 2009 in Brussels, the International Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New Technologies BRUSSELS INNOVA 2009 took place. Our Multimedia Systems Department presented two inventions: the Computer Aroma Interface and the Gesture-based Computer Control System. Both inventions were awarded with Gold Medals with Mention.

23.11.2009

European Innovation Award for Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski

The Cross of the European Order of Innovation was presented to Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski in Brussels on 20 November 2009, in the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Brussels Town Hall for his achievements in developing innovative multimedia technologies.

23.11.2009

Prof. Bożena Kostek is a Vice President of the Audio Engineering Society

Prof. Bozena Kostek was nominated and then elected to two-year term (2009-2011) as Vice President of the Audio Engineering Society. She took this responsibility starting from October 23rd 2009.

27.10.2009

Piotr Szczuko awarded for his Ph.D. Thesis

Mr Piotr Szczuko, PhD, has obtained the Prize of Prime Minister for his PhD dissertation entitled Application of Fuzzy Rules in Computer Character Animation. The dissertation was advised by Bożena Kostek, Prof., D.Sc., Eng., and was conducted in the Multimedia Systems Department. Practical result of this work is an animation aiding system, that can be utilized in applications with animated characters, motion data compression, educational tools enforcing speech development, control of humanoid robots, or modern animated user interfaces. More details related to this work are available at: Animation Aiding System.

20.10.2009

Three nominations and the Gold Medal of the Poznan International Fair for Multimedia Systems Department

During the Poznan International Fair that took place on 16th-19th June 2009, and the exhibition Science for the Economy, Multimedia Systems Department was awarded with the Gold Medal of the PIF in the category transfering the results of scientific work to the practical economy. The project awarded with the Gold Medal was the multimetia computer interface called the Lip-mouse, and it will be implemented by the international firm Young Digital Planet, based in Gdansk.

19.06.2009

Multimodal interfaces awarded in the Concours Lepine competition

New multimodal interfaces developed in GUT Multimedia System Department were awarded in the Concours Lepine competition. The gold medal was adjudged for the "Lipmouse" multimodal interface and the silver medal for the special "Smart Pen" to be used for training in case of dysgraphia problems.
The Concours Lepine is a part of the Foire de Paris - one of the greatest industrial exhibitions in Europe. This year, the competition was held from 30 April to 10 May. More than 500 innovations were presented during the exhibition.

18.05.2009

EUROPOLTECH 2009

Multimedia System Department demonstrated its "Anti-Crime and Anti-Terrorism Distributed System Employing Multimedia and Teleinformation Technologies" on Europoltech Technology Fair (April 22-24, 2009). The system was awarded The SUPERNOWOCZESNY 2009 (SUPERMODERN) statue in a competition for the greatest technology advances.

The system utilizes new algorithms for analyzing events in the video stream acquired from monitoring cameras and microphones. It’s a new generation of monitoring system based on cost-effective and scalable infrastructure of node stations, ready to be installed in any point of city agglomeration. Though data fusion analysis it is determined which event is potentially dangerous in order to alert security services. A communication software enables an effective multimedia communication using handheld PDA devices. A GIS-based solution allows positioning any object tracked by the monitoring cameras on the city numerical maps.

24.04.2009

Award of Ministry of Science and Higher Education

The Multimedia Systems Department was awarded with the cup, 3 diplomas and a congratulation letter of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the projects distinguished at various international trade fairs and exhibitions of inventions. The ceremony was held on 9th March 2009 in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The prize-winner solutions were:

• Multimedia Noise Monitoring System
• Multimedia system of estimating noise impact on hearing using teleinformatic means
• Mobile multimedia hearing and speech screening systems for PDA class devices.

The last project was developed in a co-operation with the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw.

11.03.2009

Gold Medal of the Polish Academy of Success for Prof. Andrzej Czyzewski

On Saturday 24th Jan 2009, the ceremony of handing in honorary awards of the Oscars of Polish Business was held in the main assembly hall of the Royal Palace in Warsaw. Oscar laureates, ambassadors accredited in Poland, representatives of the Polish President and Prime Minister as well as special guests from cultural, scientific and economic communities, all took part in the celebrity. The honorary award of the "Oscar of Polish Business" was granted to Toomas Hendrik Ilves - President of Estonia. Gold Medals of the Polish Academy of Success went to professor Ryszard Tadeusiewicz from the University of Science and Technology (Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza Kraków) and to professor Andrzej Czyżewski from the Gdańsk University of Technology (Politechnika Gdańska) for their research accomplishments and exceptional dedication to the implementation of scientific research results in practice.

26.01.2009

PERFORM project seminar

On Friday 5th Dec 2008 a seminar concerning the Perform EU project was held in the Multimedia Systems Department, hosting a special guest - dr Jaroslaw Slawek - the chairman of the Polish Neurological Society (Section of the Extrapyramidal System Disorders).

During the seminar, the project's aims, partners involved, schedules, as well as the future PERFORM system architecture were presented. Additionally, the Multimedia Systems Department's tasks within the project were presented in details, including: the multimodal interfaces, recordings and classification of biomedical signals as well as intelligent processing of the biomedical signals.

The seminar started a discussion that will be continued within future collaboration activities.

12.12.2008

Award in the "Open Door" competition

On 26th November 2008 in The University of Warsaw Library, Piotr Odya, who works at the Multimedia Systems Department, received the diploma in the "Open Door" competition which was organized by National Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Fund. Piotr Odya was awarded for his Doctoral dissertation "Examination and application of auditory feedback loop modification methods".

30.11.2008

Young Researcher Award for Ph.D. student of the Department

Piotr Dalka, Ph.D. student of the Departament, was amongst the top 10 young researchers presented with Elsevier-Perspektywy Young Researcher Award. Piotr Dalka was awarded for the contactless human-computer inteface called the LipMouse which allows an user to work on a computer using movements and gestures made with their mouth only. The prize ceremony was held on 25th November in Novotel Centrum hotel in Warsaw.

26.11.2008

3rd place for a Ph.D. student of the Department in Marek Kwiek competition

On September 2008, 8-12, the 55th Open Seminar on Acoustics was held in Piechowice near Szklarska Poręba. The part of the Seminar is annually organised Marek Kwiek competition during which participants present results of their work in the acoustic domain. During this year's Competition, a Ph.D. student of the Department, Michal Lech, presented a system for correction of detuned singing for query-by-humming applications, for which he was awarded with the third place.

7.11.2008

Awards of the 4th Fair and Exhibition of Inventions Technicon 2008

Our team was granted medals for the invented and developed multimodal interfaces at the 4th Fair and Exhibition of Inventions in Gdansk on 2008, Oct. 21st-23rd. See the images of medals and a photo below.

27.10.2008

Award during 125th AES Convention

From 2 till 5 October 2008 the 125th International Convention of Audio Engineering Society took place in San Francisco. One of Convention sessions was the Student Design Competition providing the final presentation of the best student projects from the digital signal processing domain. Competitors presented results of their work and answered detailed questions of a jury consisting of representatives of American industry enterprises. Łukasz Kosikowski Ph.D student from the Multimedia Systems Department of the Technical University of Gdansk was invited to the final part of the competition.
The name of the project was the Implementation of mobile multimedia hearing, vision and speech screening systems on PDA class devices. The project presented by Łukasz Kosikowski was made in co-operation with Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw.

15.10.2008

Awards of the 2nd International Warsaw lnvention Show

During the 2nd International Warsaw lnvention Show, the solution Mobile multimedia hearing and speech screening systems for PDA class devices was awarded with the gold medal. The software was developed by Multimedia Systems Department in co-operation with Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw. The solution was implemented by Łukasz Kosikowski, Ph.D. student of our Department.

8.07.2008

Award for our Ph.D. student, Agnieszka Paruzel

From 21th till 26th June 2008, the 4th Conference on Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME 2008) was held in Istabul. Paper and presentation Fractional Delay Hilbert Transform Filter in the Farrow Structure, by Agnieszka Paruzel, Ph.D. student of our Department, was rated in the 10% top class of articles presented at the Conference.

1.07.2008

Our students awarded during AES Convention

From 17th till 20th May 2008, the 124th International Convention of Audio Engineering Society took place in Amsterdam. 37 students of Multimedia Systems Department took part in this event. Earlier, some of them sent their recordings for the Recording Competition in 6 categories of stereo and surround sound systems (Rop/Rock Stereo, Jazz/Blues Stereo, Classical Stereo, Classical Surround, Non-Classical Surround and Sound for Picture). Two teams of students won the second prize in two categories of surround sound.

Maurycy Nazdrowicz and Tomasz Nogga recorded the composition Bina (performed by Stop the Silence choir) in the category Classical Surround. They used microphone setup Fukada Tree (scheme below).

In the category Non-Classical Surround, 2nd prize winners were Maciej Wilk, Marcin Kalinowski and Jakub Tkaczuk who recorded the composition Capoeira Abada using the Double ORTF microphone technique (scheme below).

27.05.2008

Awards of the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva

During the 36th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products in Geneva, two solutions developed by Multimedia Systems Department were awarded.

Mobile multimedia hearing and speech screening systems, developed in co-operation with Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Warsaw, were awarded with the gold medal.

Multimedia system of estimating noise impact on hearing using teleinformatic means was awarded with the silver medal.

8.04.2008

Prize of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education and Diploma for international invention achievements were presented to the team of the Multimedia Systems Department in Warsaw on March 10th, 2008 for the elaboration of the Environmental Noise Monitoring System.

12.03.2008

On 22nd-25th November 2007 in Brussels, 57th Eureka Ehibition - The Belgian and international trade fair for technological innovation - took place. During this event, inventions from more than 30 countries were presented. Multimedia Systems Department of Gdańsk Univeristy of Technology presented their Multimedia Noise Monitoring System which was awarded with Gold Medal with Mention.

11.12.2007

In the Homes of Sounds and Images

Read an article by Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski about the history of Multimedia Systems Department. The article titled In the Homes of Sounds and Images was published in Pismo PG (Gdańsk University of Technology Magazine) and the local copy of the article is available on this page.

14.11.2007

Award during 123rd AES Convention

From 5 till 8 October 2007 the 123rd Convention of Audio Engineering Society took place in New York. One of Convention sessions was the Student Design Competition providing the final presentation of the best student projects from the digital signal processing domain. Competitors presented results of their work and answered detailed questions from a jury consisting of representatives of American industry enterprises. One of the finalists was Piotr Odya, who works at the Multimedia Systems Department and recently completed his Ph. D. studies. Piotr Odya presented results of his Ph.D. thesis. He received Certificate of Merit for his achievement and, additionally, received a pair of professional headphones along with his diploma.

The Piotr Odya project concerned a subminiature device, which improves speech fluency of people who stutters. The device is called Subminiature Digital Speech Aid (SDSA). The SDSA is of a size of a regular ear-canal hearing aid. Consequently, the patients can easily use it in everyday situations. Interlocutors might not even realize their conversation partner uses a speech corrector. A hybrid digital signal processor was chosen as a core part of the device engineered. The SDSA implements some well-known speech correction algorithms, such as delaying (DAF) or frequency altering (FAF) speech signal, but also enables to use combination of these methods (DAF and FAF, FAF-to-DAF morphing). Moreover, new algorithms such as: reverb or delay modulation, not used before in the anti-stuttering devices, have been implemented in the SDSA.

18.10.2007

Dr. Leonardo Fuks presents his lecture "Combining Music Acoustics, Instrument Building/Invention and Performance: A Brazilian Experience"

Department of Multimedia Systems along with the Gdansk University of Technology AES Student Section hosted a lecture entitled Combining Music Acoustics, Instrument Building/Invention and Performance: A Brazilian Experience by Dr. Leonardo Fuks, a professor of Music and Acoustics at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Escola de Música da UFRJ-UNIVERSIDADE DO BRASIL) on March 13 2007.

See this page for more information on this event and photos

26.03.2007

Jan Hevelius Prize

This year's Prize for the Achievements in Scientific Research - the Jan Hevelius Prize - was presented on January 28th to prof. Andrzej Czyżewski for his results in the domain of multimedia technology research. The ceremony was held in the Gdansk City Hall on the 396th anniversary of the famous Gdansk astronomer's birthday.

29.01.2007

"My Talent for Poland"

On 18th December 2006 in Presidential Palace in Warsaw, two PhD students of Multimedia Systems Department, Maciej Kulesza and Paweł Żwan, accompanied by their promotors: Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski and Prof. Bożena Kostek, received congratulations and gifts (fountain pens) from Polish President, Mr. Lech Kaczyński. This ceremony was a part of My Talent for Poland meeting of President of Poland with approximately 70 selected young Polish scientists, artists and sportsmen.

19.12.2006

First Award for Multimedia Noise Monitoring System engineered in Multimedia Systems Department in Polish Competition for Improving Work Conditions

The Multimedia Noise Monitoring System, developed in GUT Multimedia Systems Department achieved the first award in research category dealing with safety, hygiene and ergonomics of work. The project was submitted to Polish Competition for Improving Work Conditions. The following persons were involved in the project development (funded within the grant No. R02 010 01): Andrzej Czyżewski, Józef Kotus, Bożena Kostek, Maciej Kulesza, Tomasz Pyra, Maciej Szczodrak. The awards were solemnly presented during the plenary meeting of the Safety Work Council in the Polish Parliament on 12 December 2006.

18.12.2006

PhD students from MSD receive awards during 121st AES Convention

From 5 till 8 October 2006 the 121st International Convention of Audio Engineering Society took place in San Francisco. One of Convention sessions was the Student Design Competition providing the final presentation of the best student projects from the digital signal processing domain. Competitors presented results of their work and answered detailed questions of a jury consisting of representatives of American industry enterprises. Two Ph.D students from the Multimedia Systems Department of the Technical University of Gdansk were invited to the final part of the competition.

One of the projects was presented by Maciej Kulesza. The project is related to a specially designed contactless hearing aid for infants. Hearing loss compensation is crucial for infants, because the language development through home intervention should start in the early months for a newborn baby. Infants with those disorders may have serious problems in school and in general communication in elder age. A proposed solution enables hearing loss compensation from first months of infants' lives. On the contrary to the off-the-shelf hearing aids the engineered device is installed in infant's crib. Itemploys several digital processing algorithms implemented to a DSP processor.

Paweł Żwan, the author of the application which won the second posiotion in the same competition, presented a system for singing voice emission training. The application determines singing voice parameters in real time and presents them on a PC screen. A comparison of results to those obtained for some professional singers is also possible. It forms a visual feedback which enables a singer to monitor the correctness of results of the performed emission exercises and in result it enables a vocal training by matching voice parameters to professional singers.

Both projects originated form the Multimedia Systems Department have won the first and the second prize, respectively. Maciej Kulesza was given a scholarship founded by Lavry Engineering - a well known analog-digital converters producer, Paweł Żwan received a DSP card with a set of audio plugins along with his diplomma.

17.10.2006

Third prize for 5.1 recording at the 120th AES Convention in Paris

Two students of our Department, Grzegorz Sikora and Tomasz Chodakowski-Malkiewicz with Paweł Zakrzewski, a student of Bio-medical Engineering Department, won the third prize in the category "Classical Surround" at the Audio Enginering Society Paris Convention which took place on May 20-23. They recorded Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov's Psalm 103. "Błogosławiony Duszy Moja", which was performed by the Gdańsk University of Technology Students' Choir. The choir was recorded in St. Nicholas Basilica. Nine microphones have been used, the first seven have been set up in a "Fukada tree" array, which is dedicated for surround recordings. The other two microphones have been placed 12 meters away from the main array, and they were used as an ORTF stereo pair to record the ambience.

30.05.2006

Polish Academy of Science Prize for prof. Bożena Kostek

Prof. Bozena Kostek received this year's Prize of the Polish Academy of Science in the domain of Science. Starting from now the Prize bears the name of the Great Polish Acoustician, Prof. Ignacy Malecki.

29.12.2005

Merite de l'Invention medal given at 54th Brussels Eureka Exhibition

On 16th-20th November 2005, 54th World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New Technologies "Brussels Eureka" (54eme Salon Mondial de l'Innovation, de la Recherche et des Nouvelles Technologies) took place. Institite of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing (Warsaw, Poland) received "Merite de l'Invention" medal for inventions introduced in co-operation with Multimedia Systems Department and Institute of Control Systems (Chorzów, Poland) in the recent years.

29.12.2005

Bożena Kostek receives the title of Professor

Mr. President of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski has presented the title of Professor to Bożena Kostek on 2005, November 23rd.

24.11.2005

Award for Multimedia System for Noise Monitoring

Multimedia System for Noise Monitoring, developed by Multimedia Systems Department, was awarded with First Prize in Student Design Competition during 119th Audio Engineering Convention in New York. This project was coordinated by Józef Kotus.
 

14.10.2005

Award for P. Maziewski

The Scientific Committee of the 4th Polish Conference on Electronics (IV Krajowa Konferencja Elektroniki) awarded the paper Wow defect reduction based on interpolation techniques by Przemysław Maziewski, Ph.D. student of our Department. This paper was also recommended for publication in Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

30.06.2005

Medal of Association of Polish Inventors and Rationalizers

On 2005, May 13th in the Porczynski Gallery, Warsaw, the Association of Polish Inventors and Rationalizers awarded the Sendzimir Medal to Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski, Head of the Multimedia Systems Department.

14.06.2005

Special Prize in Student Recording Competition
(AES, Barcelona 2005)

This year our Department has performed an experimental recording dedicated for 5.1 system. Third part "Encounter" of Rolf Kuhn composition "The Clarinet Connection" was the object of recording, executed by clarinet quintet of Gdansk Academy of Music. It takes advantage of dedicated microphone technique for recording - INA5 and sweetspot placed inside of executive apparatus. This way, we obtained very interesting surround effect. It has been reported for student recording competition on this year's AES convention in Barcelona in classical surround category and it has earned special award.

13.06.2005

Mrs. Prof. Marianna Sankiewicz awarded

Persons contributed to the Audio Engineering Society were awarded during the Opening Ceremony of AES 118-th Convention in Barcelona. Among recipients of the Society awards was Mrs. Prof. Marianna Sankiewicz who was elected to the Fellowship of the Society. In this way, many years of her scientific achievements and work aimed at popularization of sound engineering and development of AES in Central Europe have been recognized and appreciated

12.06.2005

PROKSIM Centre of Excellence

On 16th September 2004, Polish Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) made a decision to create and subsidise Centre of Excellence in Communication Process - Hearing and Speech (PROKSIM), based on the International Center of Hearing and Speech, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany, in co-operation with Multimedia Systems Department, Technical University of Gdańsk. The Multimedia Systems Department supports the Centre since the proposal to create PROKSIM has been put forward.

Detailed information on the PROKSIM Centre may be found on the IPPF website.

25.01.2005

New laboratory rooms in our Department

On 16th June 2004, new laboratory rooms in the Multimedia Systems Department, built on the roof of ETI faculty building, were opened. The construction of these laboratories was subsidized by the Foundation for Polish Science, as a part of the MILAB project. The Foundation Chairman, Prof. Maciej Grabski, took part in the opening ceremony, as well as Rector of Gdańsk University of Technology - Prof. Janusz Rachoń, Marianna Sankiewicz and other guests (see the photo of the guests unveiling the plaque). The guest visited the newly-opened laboratories.

17.06.2004

Telewelfare.com is a finalist of eEurope Awards for eHealth

The European eHealth Conference and Exhibition 2004 took place on May 5-6 in Cork, Ireland. During this conference, eEurope Awards for eHealth were given. Thirty of the total number of 109 projects from European Union countries that entered the competition were selected as the finalists for the Awards. The Telewelfare.com website, which was created in co-operation of Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology and International Center of Hearing and Speech, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, was one of the seven finalists in the "eHealth homecare and telemedicine tools and services for citizens" category. Many important persons visited the conference, including European Union Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen.

14.05.2004

Subminiature Digital Speech Aid awarded in the Concours Lepine competition

The Foire de Paris - a great industrial exhibition - was held in Paris from 29 April to 9 May 2004. During the exhibition, the Concours Lepine competition was organized to award best of the exhibited inventions. Multimedia Systems Department presented its latest invention - subminiature Digital Speech Aid. The prototype of the in-the-ear speech corrector for the stuttering persons was awarded with silver medal and diploma. The Department was represented by prof. Andrzej Czyżewski, Prof. Bożena Kostek and Piotr Odya.

Information about Subminiature Digital Speech Aid - version:   Polish   English   Français

14.05.2004

Ministry of Science Cup and Diploma

Multimedia Systems Department received Ministry of Science Cup for international inventions and Diploma from Ministry of Science for Digital Speech Aid DSA-3.

4.03.2004

MSD participates in PrestoSpace European project

Multimedia Systems Department participates in the PrestoSpace project - Preservation towards storage and access, Standardised Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe (FP6-IST-707336). The project's objective is to provide technical solutions and integrated systems for digital preservation of all types of audio-visual collections.
For more information see PrestoSpace web pages.

27.02.2004

Prof. Bożena Kostek is new AES Vice-President

In May 2003 Prof. Bożena Kostek has been selected by the Nomination Committee and approved by the Board of Governors as a candidate for the office of Vice-President, Central Europe in the 2003 Audio Engineering Society Elections. In September in world-wide voting she was elected Vice-President of the AES, for Central Europe Region. The term of office is for two years, beginning ten days following the Annual Business Meeting of the Society of 2003. As a newly-elected VP, she was invited and encouraged to attend the upcoming Board of Governors meeting in New York on Tuesday, October 14th, on the occasion of the AES 115th Convention.

The Audio Engineering Society is the only scientific society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Its membership of leading engineers, scientists and other authorities has increased dramatically throughout the world, greatly boosting the society stature and that of its members in a truly symbiotic relationship.

30.01.2004

Gold medal of Poznań International Fair for Digital Speech Aid DSA-3

Digital Speech Aid DSA-3, developed in Sound and Vision Engineering Department, Gdańsk University of Technology, was awarded with gold medal during the Poznań International Fair 2003.

13.06.2003

"Oscar of Science" for the Department of Sound & Vision Engineering

On the April 14th, 2003 in Warsaw, a ceremony was organised accompanied by an exibition showing the best Polish research project results subsidized by the Commitee for Scientific Research. At the beginning of April, 2002 the former Committee was transformed to the Ministry of Sciences, thus in order to celebrate this inauguration the Minister of Science, prof. Michal Kleiber, decided to distinguish 3 best research teams with his "Oscar of Science" prizes awarded in the categories of "bio", "info" and "techno". The winner in the category "info" was the Department of Sound & Vision Engineering (Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Infomatics) chaired by prof. Andrzej Czyzewski (see his photo together with Minister, prof. Kleiber and V-ce Minister, prof. Bartosik). The prize was awarded for the achievements in computer medical applications, particularly those implemented in a co-operation with Warsaw- based Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and Chorzow-based Institute of Control Systems.

17.04.2003

Diploma of Polish Minister of Science for Centre of Medical Technologies

In 2002, Sound and Vision Engineering Department, together with Biomedical Engineering Department and other Polish and World institutions, established Centre of Medical Technologies (CEMET). Polish Minister of Science, Prof. Michał Kleiber awarded CEMET with diploma.

27.11.2002

Brussels Eureka prizes

The 51th World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New Technologies "Brussels Eureka" took place at Brussels Expo (Heysel) from 12 to 17 November 2002. Eureka is one of the most prestigious world invention exhibitions. On the vast area of Expo hall in Brussels, 1200 inventions from 40 world countries were presented. These inventions represented nearly all branches of science and they were previously awarded in national exhibitions and international contests. The exhibition is extremely popular among the visitors and the competition to win the prizes is strong. This year's Grand Prix of Brussels Eureka went to Moscow for the artificial heart. Next two prestigious prizes - the Grand Prix of Prime Minister of Walloon Community (the host of Brussels Eureka) and the Grand Prix International of World Press Association (Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique) were given to Polish scientists: Prof. Andrzej Czyżewski, Prof. Bożena Kostek and Prof. Henryk Skarżynski, for their international patents related to application of computer technology in diagnosis of hearing, speech and eyesight disorders. These inventions were also awarded with the gold medal.

20.11.2002