Second six-monthly periodic report

Workpackage progress report for Workpackage No.: 2

WP2 Educational and training courseware, videoconferencing….

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  Objectives and planned actions:
  

To give the chances for a wide audience, to improve their knowledge about multimedia technologies. To establish a multimedia service centre and start to create a database of ready materials.

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  Problems encountered:
  

We had some problems with the interfacing of available HW and SW tools.

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  Results:
  

Alexandru Popa from Romania, an expert in MM was helping SZTAKI and we organised a series of multimedia seminars: his presentations are as follows:
1. Multimedia technologies – digitalization process. Workflow guideline

2. Digital audio guidelines

3. The digital image.

4. The digital video. Digitalization, compression, processing

5. Authoring tools. Applications

About 12 young researchers took part on the presentations and can use the gained knowledge in their work.

In our laboratory we established a Multimedia Service Centre. We purchased a multimedia computer station equipped with professional video digitising and editing tools.

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  Publications and papers, other deliverables:
  

The content of presentations both in text and ppt. format are available on demand through the web: http://www.sztaki.hu/~reitli/multimedia.html.
2. WP-C Foreign visitors at SZTAKI, operating virtual laboratories

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  Objectives and planned actions:
  

Foreign experts visiting at SZTAKI will transfer the knowledge of best practice, we can share our experiences and create new common projects.

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  Problems encountered:
  

Sometimes the presentation time was short , but the started common work can be followed on Internet base.

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  Results:
  

Alexandru Popa from Romania spent at SZTAKI 2 months.

Radoslav Pavlov Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – BAS [e-mail] Danail Dochev Institute of Information Technologies – BAS [e-mail] from Bulgaria has just started spending 2 months at SZTAKI – March and April 2002. We planned a series of seminars about E-learning where they are to give their presentations. We elaborated a mutual new Leonardo project PRP-LEARN.

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  Publications and papers, other deliverables:
  

The contents of presentations both in text and ppt. format will be on the web: http://www.sztaki.hu/~rszabo/index.html.
3. Organizing Workshops, Conferences and Scientific meetings

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  Objectives and planned actions:
  

Organising a series of scientific meetings, the participants can get knowledge about cryptography and they can joint and implement future projects.

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  Problems encountered:
  

Lack of finding such a seminar schedule, that suits every interested person, who plans to attend.

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  Results:
  

We are in process of 11 events, every week from February to May 20-25 young fellows from SZTAKI and other institutes are discussing about cryptography.