Conference Plan
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SFI lectures Agenda
All lectures are taking place in the entertainment and sports' hall of the Cracow University of Economics (sectors B and C).
Abstracts
Inaugural Lecture
Jerzy Nawrocki
The inaugural lecture opening this year's 6th edition of the Academic IT Festival - Formalism and agility in software projects".
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"Silverlight for the curious"
Michał Żyliński
Meet the short, yet turbulent history of Silverlight and see what its further development plans look like. Will it be able to forge itself a durably place in the minds of web application developers or will it prove to be yet another ephemeral of the IT market? In which scenarios Silverlight is the best, at the moment? You will able to find answers to these and many other questions during this presentation.
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"Artificial Intelligence in e-commerce"
Michał Korzycki
In October 2006, the Netflix company announced a contest: the one who would improve by at least 10% the efficiency of their movie recommendation algorithm would receive a reward equal to $1,000,000.
The lecture tries to answer the following questions: How come recommendation mechanisms could be this much worth for someone? How are such recommendation mechanisms created? What are the basic rules of their application? ... and I will tell the story of the fight for this million dollars. As for the reward - unfortunately - after a very fierce competition, it has already been awarded in September 2009.
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"Rich Internet applications on desktop and mobile devices"
Piotr Walczyszyn
The lecture will present the latest global trends related to RIAs (rich Internet applications) development. Participants will learn about the latest opportunities given by the Flash Platform and Adobe AIR, which allow you to expand and move Internet applications to your desktop. Finally, it will be shown how use the same tools and technologies to create applications for mobile devices, while taking advantage of multi-touch screen, accelerometers and geolocalization.
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"Gadu-Gadu: origins, development, success"
Łukasz Foltyn
Idea komunikatora internetowego * Przystąpienie do realizacji „polskiego komunikatora” * Finansowanie nowatorskich projektów * Problemy „szybkiego wzrostu użytkowników” * Rynek, rozwój, przyszłość
The IM idea * Beginnings of the "Polish IM" implementation * Financing innovative projects * Problems with the rapid increase of users * Market, development, future
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"Google Hacking in penetration tests"
Piotr Konieczny
The Google search engine has an immensity of hidden features. Few people know that you can use it as an anonymous proxy server, a powerful calculator, a spelling dictionary or a mp3 files browser (or credit cards numbers)! Adequately asked questions can provide passwords to FTP servers, web cam control panels, as well as top secret documents from the largest corporations and governmental agencies. Google even allows you a "free" access to payable articles! These and other hidden options of the Google search engine results in it being an ideal tool both for network attacks as security audits. This lecture will explain how Google works, demonstrate the more interesting tricks and uncover what use security specialists can have of a search engine.
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"Various security technologies protection effectiveness - discussion of practical intrusion cases from the experience of a Polish auditor"
Mariusz Stawowski
Design errors and a wrong selection of security technologies may result in security measures, applied in computer systems, not performing their duties properly, and only making for a false sense of security. This is being confirmed by the results of actual security audits and by computer crime statistics. There can be many types and sources of design errors, including: lack of separation between systems vulnerable to attacks and strategic IT resources, untrusted networks having access to management and being able to disable security, content control and intruders protection systems inspecting encrypted sessions and "not seeing" attacks, office users and visitors networks being connected to productions servers VLANs, wrong location of network security devices, etc. Errors often arise from not complying with security design principles (such as "Defense-in-Depth", "Compartmentalization"), not or badly performing risk analysis, selecting improper security measures or implementing them in the wrong location (i.e. resources that require protection are not protected). The lecture will discuss the effectiveness of various security technologies and the most common design mistakes, with regard to practical cases that occur in security audits.
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"Brain-computer interfaces"
Piotr Jerzy Durka
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) provide communication and device control without the use of muscles, through readings of brain activity. They constitutes the only hope of maintaining a contact with the outside world for patients in extreme stages of neurodegenerative diseases. Over the past several years, BCIS have passed from science fiction to 7PR, with the EU spending 40 million € on their development. This technology also interests the entertainment and military industry.
The most effective BCI implementations are based on electroencephalogram readings (EEG), that is an electrical trace of thoughts. This lecture briefly presents the main problems with EEG registrations and the current state of knowledge in EEG-based BCI implementation. The lecture will be illustrated by the achievements of the only Polish team in this field, which, over the past 2 years, has made up the dozen years of Poland's delay in the field. Brain-computer interfaces are part of the neuroinformatics course open at the Department of Physics, Warsaw University (http://neuroinformatyka.pl).
Preliminary information and videos are available, under "video" and "brain-computer interfaces" bookmarks, on http://brain.fuw.edu.pl and http://bci.durka.info
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"Android: member of the mobile family"
Miroslav Kopecky
Android SKD and API Levels from basics to application development. Android Layouts, Widgets, Action, Intents, Services and XML behind. Android SDK 2.1 (API 7).
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"Imagine Cup – contest of ideas"
kAMUflage
The lecture will present the main objectives of the Imagine Cup competition from a participant point of view and also suggest how you can participate in the competition's subsequent editions. In addition, the speakers will present its history and offer some advice for future participants. In the second part of the presentation the speakers will present the TraMuBraTion (Translate Music to Braille notaTion) system - a program which allows blind people to recognize musical notation and translate it into Braille.
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"Service Component Architecture (SCA) from Apache Tuscany and WebSphereApplication Server 7"
Jacek Laskowski
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a set of specifications which describe the service components model provided by OASIS. SCA is based on an idea, in which the implementation is separated from communication methods between services, which use open standards. The basic being is the merge (composite), from which is created more complex functionality, and which is provided to the runtime environment by consistent applications called composite applications. Using SCA brings the advantage of having a unified service model, in which we can then base our components on Java SE, EJB, Spring Framework, BPEL, and where communication can be done using SOAP/HTTP, JMS, FTP or any other protocol. Both application components are independent. The theoretical part will be enriched with examples running on Apache Tuscany and IBM WebSphere Application Server 7 with SCA Feature Pack.
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