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We would like to invite you to take part at our promotional event on April 14th 2021 at 2.00 p.m. CET, where you will hear all about postgraduate study opportunities at the second largest university in Slovenia - University of Maribor.

​Link to Teams live event. ​

Tampere Summer School is a great opportunity for students and graduates from all over the world to attend international online summer courses from the comfort of their own home. Participants can participate in one or two different courses and gain up to 10 ECTS during the summer school. In addition to studying, the students have the opportunity to join our optional online social activities to expand their international network. Application period 1 April–7 June 2021. Detailed information about the courses is available on our website: www.tuni.fi/summerschool

ASSIST HEIDI brings students and people with disabilities together, in order to design and prototype an individual assistive technology solution for them. The Summer School is designed for (but not limited to) students in the field of medical technology, biomedical engineering, embedded systems, rehabilitation engineering, electrical engineering or computer sciences interested in Assistive Technology.

The 7-th Student Computer Science Research Conference StuCoSReC'21 will take place on the 14th of September 2021 at the Faculty of Electical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor. We invite all students to participate actively with scientific and research manuscripts. The accepted contributions will be published in the conference proceeding (in electronic format). You can read more about the conference and manuscript submission at https://stucosrec.feri.um.si/2021.

Kind regards,

Organizing Committee of the StuCoSReC'21 conference and the Student section of ACM Slovenia

The Institute of Computer Science at our faculty successfully launched the acquired Horizon 2020 project, DAPHNE - Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines for Large-Scale Data Management, HPC, and Machine Learning.

University of Maribor would like to invite you to take part at their promotional event on March 5th 2021 at 2.00 p.m. CET, where you will hear all about study opportunities at the second largest university in Slovenia - University of Maribor.

To make it easier for them to prepare the content and organize the event, we kindly ask you to fill out the form on the web page.

We invite you to join us on 15.1.2020 at 15.00 via MS Teams for a lecture in game development. The lecture will be given by Jure Rehar, owner of Elivion, a game development company. Jure has collaborated on projects such as Swamp Attack and Talking Tom Camp, totaling more than 340 million downloads. In his lecture, Jure will give an overview of the gaming industry, mentioning key points in game development and talk about his acquired knowledge and experience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations!

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.