17 december 2020 | 10.00 - 12.30
The first public event of the AI&HMI GRID Project, developed in the framework of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interface S3 Partnership.
AI&HMI GRID is an Inter-Regional Network of specialized Innovation Laboratories, able to bring Artificial Intelligence Innovation to SMEs.
Leading partners from Emilia-Romagna and Slovenia will present the AI&HMI GRID project, and more than 15 Innovation Laboratories from 10 different Regions will meet for the first time, and will provide a clear view of the AI&HMI GRID ability to meet SMEs needs to boost their innovation through the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in their production environment.
Assoc. prof. dr. Aleš Zamuda received an award from IEEE Region 8 for completing successful leadership of Young Professionals Affinity Group. With this award, IEEE expressed its appreciation for Notable Services and Contributions towards the advancement of IEEE and the Engineering Profession. The Affinity Group is, to many IEEE members, the focal point of their IEEE experience. Congratulations!
The Institute of Computer Science in cooperation with Celtra is organizing a webinar “Adidas: retargeting users using Celtra technology" on 19th of November at 10a.m. Join us via Zoom, by clicking the following link https://celtra.zoom.us/j/95350283027
Get familiar with the high tech company whose proprietary software enables brands all over the world to create ads and promote their values.
In the 2h presentation, we will present how our brands, such as Adidas are leveraging Celtra technology for retargeting use case. Throughout the presentation we will dive deep into real-time user tracking, serving infrastructure, and explaining how user data is handled through the analytics pipeline. In the end, we will show how our infrastructure is organized, how we deploy our app. We will devote some time to present you the Celtra engineering culture, the challenges our engineers are facing work, and the opportunities our employees have to grow and develop. There will be plenty of time for a discussion and Q/A.
At the end of September, the 29th International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference ERK 2020 was held in Portorož, organized by the Slovenian Section of the IEEE. As part of the conference, a student contribution competition was held, in which student Vid Keršič achieved second place and student Domen Kavran third place.
Domen developed a new algorithm for time series classification using time-frequency analysis and convolutional neural networks, while Vid presented a new vector space representation of movies and music albums using node embedding methods. Vid will further take part in a regional competition Region 8 (Europe, Africa and Asia without the Far East).
The University Programming Marathon is a nationwide competition of students in programming with an emphasis on knowledge of data structures and algorithms. This year, the final round took place in a decentralized form, where teams simultaneously competed at their home universities/faculties.
This years champions of University of Maribor (UM) are Vid Keršič, Mitja Žalik and Matic Rašl forming the “BsoD” team. Second place went to high school “B” team, with Lan Sevčnikar, Matija Likar and Luka Lonec. Third place went to “Žgance Jem” team with Jakob Kordež, Martin Domajnko and Tilen Koren. Congratulations!
Due to the Covid19, this year's CERC 2020 regional competition has been postponed to the first quarter of 2021 and will also take place in a decentralized form. Teams from Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will compete for the first prize.
The best teams from each regional contest will continue to the world finals, which are expected to be held from the 19th to 24th of June 2021 in Moscow, Russia..
Students can register till the 10th of November and work in groups or alone to provide innovative solutions to the burning issues of a rapidly changing, post-pandemic world, focusing on four main categories: education, economy, social life, and healthcare. The competition is going to be held online from November 13 to 15 and the winner’s prize is 5000€. More information HERE.
The list of journals, in which the members of our Institute of Computer Science are Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors and Editorial Board members has again been increased. Professor dr. Marjan Mernik becomes an Associate Editor of the "Information Sciences" journal. The journal's current Impact Factor is 5.910, and is ranked in the first quarter for the field of "Computer Science, Information Systems."
In the 'Competition on Single Objective Bound Constrained Optimization' at the CEC'2020, GECCO'2020 and SEMCCO'2020 international conferences, the members of the Institute of Computer Science, UM FERI, Janez Brest and Borko Bošković and the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, UM FERI, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec won the third place with the algorithm j2020 (J. Brest, MS Maučec, B. Bošković). For more information see this file. Congratulations!
On the 3rd of September at 3:51 CEST the Vega rocket successfully launched 53 satellites into space, including the first Slovenian nanosatellite TRISAT, which separated from the rocket at 5:33 CEST. During the day we successfully established our first contact with it.
The same day in the afternoon there was a press conference held at the Rectorate of University of Maribor. The event was attended by Zdravko Počivalšek, Minister for Economic Development and Technology; Prof. Dr. Zdravko Kačič, Rector of the University of Maribor; Doc. dr. Boštjan Vlaovič, Vice-Dean of Education at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics; Doc. Dr. Iztok Kramberger, TRISAT project leader from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer science and Informatics UM, and Dr. Tomaž Rotovnik, Director of SkyLabs d.o.o. More pictures from the press conference can be found here.
The status and condition of the TRISAT satellite can be monitored live in Slovenian and English on the website www.trisat.um.si.
Today, on the 6th of July 2020, the University of Maribor opened the second application period for Slovenians without Slovenian citizenship and citizens of non-EU Member States – foreign nationals under the 2020/2021 Call for Enrolment in Postgraduate Programmes of the University of Maribor.
Assist. Prof. Matej Črepinšek was awarded a silver medal for an important contribution to the realization of the mission of the Association for Technical Culture of Slovenia (ZOTKS) in the field of Computer Science. Congratulations!
Our student Kristjan Stopar won the first prize award at the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. Together with his student colleagues Pia Žnidaršič and Urban Košale he developed a device for kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired. The final competition of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest has been organized in the framework of IEEE MELECON 2020 international conference. Under the supervision of assistant Jernej Kranjec and Prof. Aleš Holobar, Kristjan won the first prize award, despite being only in his 2nd year of the 1st Cycle Bologna Study Programme Computer Science and Information Technologies.
In accordance with the Act on provisional measures for judicial, administrative and other public matters to cope with the spread of infectious disease SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) (The Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 36/2020) all open application deadlines have been extended until further notice.
Dear student,We are currently faced with many questions about our health, both in Slovenia and in all other countries that are experiencing the coronavirus crisis. To help you with this, we have prepared the attached info sheet on the current situation with information about credible sources and where you can get social and psychological support at this time.
This is part of the IKTERUS project, where we aim to improve the availability of information about healthcare services for international students as well as the communication between medical staff and students.
At the same time we would like to invite you once again to fill out the questionnaire (in English) and contribute to better information and healthcare for international students: https://www.1ka.si/a/259298
SLOVENIANS WITHOUT SLOVENIAN CITIZENSHIP AND FOREIGN NATIONALS – NON-EU NATIONALS:
1st application period: from publication of the Call until 31 May 2020 at the latest until 9 June 2020 at latest. (application period was extended due to Coronavirus)
2nd application period:if enrolment places are not filled in the first application period and faculties decide to publish a list of vacancies, candidates will be able to apply in the second round from6 July 2020 until 6 September 2020 at the latest . Candidates intending to apply in the second round should take into account enrolment procedure may not be completed in due time.
SLOVENIAN CITIZENS AND EU NATIONALS:
1st application period: from publication of the Call until 6 September 2020 at the latest.
2nd application period:if enrolment places are not filled in the first application period and faculties decide to publish a list of vacancies, candidates will be able to apply in an additional application period for filling the remaining vacancies from 21 September 2020 until 22 September 2020 at noon CET at the latest.
NOTE
The application is valid only if the candidate pressed the SUBMIT button in eVŠ. In the opposite case, the application will not be submitted and will thus be rejected by means of an official decision. Before completing the application procedure, candidates are advised to verify whether the application has indeed been submitted. Candidates will always receive an email notification of the successful application to the email address indicated in the application form.
the University of Maribor issued additional instructions regarding the prevention measures for spreading of Coronavirus – Covid19 in Slovenia.
From Friday, 13th of March till revocation all the Faculties will be obliged to reduce contacts between the students and students and professor or other staff to minimum in order to prevent spreading of the virus between population. The Faculties will organize most of the study process online. They will use different platforms and will inform you accordingly regarding your study or practice obligations. Instructions about the study process at UM FERI will be given via e-mail or on eŠtudij portal. Please follow the instructions and check student e-mail regularly.
You have also noticed that most of the public gatherings and other social activities have been cancelled in last days as a measure of prevention. Slovenian government is taking all the necessary actions in preventing the spreading. The number of infected individuals is still small in Slovenia and we would like to keep it this way.
We would also like to kindly ask you all to not use this extra time off for travelling around Europe– as many Erasmus students like to do and some of them even suggested to us that this would be their plan for the next days – as we really would like to prevent the spreading as much as possible. Stay at home as much as possible and avoid crowds indoors.
Additionally, office hours on UM FERI at Office for Students Affairs are canceled - Faculty is closed. We wold like to encourage you to arrange most of the communication through the e-mails.
In the week before the closure of UM FERI, company KIVI COM d.o.o. delivered eleven smart parcel boxes Direct4.Me. Smart parcel boxes are the result of the development and production of KIVI COM d.o.o. company and are intended for the project work in the 2nd year of the Computer Science and Information Technology study programme. This is a brand new product (the use of Direct4.Me started in December 2019 in cooperation with Pošta Slovenije company), and students of UM FERI will be the first in the world to have the opportunity to use this product to realize their own ideas.
In accordance with the Announcement of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of 24 February 2020 and Directions of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport for preparing a plan for ensuring continuous work in educational, higher education and research institutions in the time of coronavirus, the Rector of the University of Maribor prof. dr. Zdravko Kačič hereby issues the following PLAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR FOR ENSURING CONTINUOUS WORK IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS.
QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Maribor between ranks 551-600 in the list of the best higher education institutions in the field of Computer science and Information Systems.
The QS World University Ranking conducts an annual Academic and Employer Reputation Survey to collect data on the reputation of a higher education institution from employers and employees of universities and other institutions related to higher education. Between 2015 and 2019, 94,000 academic respondents and 44,000 employers participated in the QS survey. This year's QS Rankings by Subject ranked 1,368 universities from 137 countries.
The University of Maribor has been involved in assessment in 32 study areas and has accumulated enough points to be ranked among the best higher education institutions in Mathematicsand Computer science and Information Systems.
