With our great sadness we notify our members, friends, symphatizers, associates and partners that our friend, long-time Program Committee General Chair and MIPRO emeritus

Petar Biljanović, PhD

peacefully passed away on Thursday, February 27.

We will keep him in our thoughts forever as an outstanding creator who made a huge contribution to the development of information, communication and electronic technology in our region.
 
Rest in peace our dear Pero!
 
MIPRO Croatian Society

Comping has joined us as a new collective member. Comping is one of the leading ICT companies in Croatia, offering cutting-edge business technology solutions and related services, tailored to the client's needs. For 30 years they have been supporting the business of perspective companies by creating innovative tailored IT solutions and related services.

They recognize and keep up-to-date of new technologies and contribute to their development as well as opportunities for their application. They identify, design and deploy them in a completely new way and provide a holistic approach - from planning to implementation. This makes their innovative tools, methodologies and strategies a method for reducing costs, better organizing or increasing productivity. They like to say for themselves that they are an expert partner of perspective companies.

The solutions and business services offered by Comping goes from the highest levels of data management and processing, artificial intelligence, comprehensive solutions and services in the financial industry, business process robotics, and to the outwardly basic services such as raising and maintaining IT infrastructure. Comping in its partner portfolio owns large and medium-sized companies such as financial institutions, insurance companies, telecommunications corporations. By collaborating with Comping, clients gain a strategic partner with a unique combination of technology, business knowledge and hands-on experience that helps them identify current and future business challenges, thus contributing to their competitiveness.

Discovery Science Conference supported by MIPRO provides an open forum for presentation, discussions and exchange of new research in the area of Discovery Science.

The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of methods for discovering scientific knowledge, coming from machine learning, data mining, intelligent data analysis, big data analysis as well as their application in various scientific domains. This year's, 22^nd edition, is taking place in Split from 28-30 October.

Mipro is a co-organizer of international conference 7th Higher Education Institutions Conference which will take place in Opatija 23-24. of September 2019 at Vila Antonio. The main topic of the conference is Building Agile Organizations, as a response to the chances or challenges that higher education institutions are faceing today. The main topic is supported with plenary sessions on which will be discussed about transformational strategies for higher education, new faculty models, innovative teaching methods and labor market challenges for new generations. Also, there will be presentations of scientific papers which will be published in purpose of sharing different experiences from various higher education institutions. The following prominent lecturers have confirmed their participation:

·       Timothy S. Mescon, AACSB International, Executive Vice President & Chief Officer, Europe, Middle East and Africa

·       James Uhomoibhi, Ulster University (Antrim, United Kingdom), Faculty of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

·       Kjell R. Knudsen, University of Minnesota Duluth, Dean emeritus of the School of Business and Economics

·       Boris Debić, Google, Silicon Valley Chapter Member 

·       Vesna Dodiković-Jurković, Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE), Vice Director  

·       Eileen McAuliffe, Sheffield Hallam University, Deputy Dean  

7th Higher Education Institution Conference will be held in Opatija, in September 23-24. The conference aims to be the ideal platform for making international connections for future collaborations in various academic fields. Also, it will allow the exchange of the best practices that concern emerging areas related to entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy, technology, management, and education. We invite everyone in the fields of higher education to submit papers that are in line with the conference topics. This conference will prove to be a valuable forum in which you can share your experience with other higher education professionals, as well as gain valuable insights from our esteemed speakers who will be speaking on the following topics this year:

1.     Transformational strategies for higher education
2.     New faculty models
3.     Innovative teaching methods
4.     Labor market challenges

Extended deadline for full papers – July, 31, 2019-07-17

 Conference web address

The Electoral Assembly of MIPRO was held on July 2, 2019 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, where there were 103 members of the Association. According to the agenda, amendments to the Statute were accepted and voting for the leadership of the association was made for the next mandate until 2023.

Opening Ceremony of the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019

On Wednesday, May 22, starting at 10 AM, a traditional opening ceremony will take place as the central event of the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019 at the Congress Hall of the Grand Hotel Adriatic in Opatija.

After opening addresses followed by the Awards and Recognitions for outstanding achievement, a Plenary Round Table on the "Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Environments in Croatia" will begin (scheduled at 11:30 AM).

Dr. Zoltán Juhász will hold and chair a workshop on “GPU Programming and Applications” on Monday, 20 May 2019 in cooperation with the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb and the University of Rijeka. The workshop will focus on how to design and implement efficient, high-performance GPU algorithms, benefiting from the massive parallelism found in today’s GPU chips.

Participate if you are a student, researcher or IT professional wishing to keep up-to-date with the state-of-the-art in GPU computing.  Workshop participants will receive a BURA supercomputer account valid for 30 days. In addition, there is a possibility of extending the account on the basis of project proposal.

Invited lecture by Dr. Rebecca Christianson at the conference Engineering Education

Dr. Rebecca Christianson from Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA, will hold an invited lecture on "Transformation of Engineering Education at Olin College" at the conference Engineering Education /EE on Tuesday, May 21, within MIPRO 2019.

Workshop at MIPRO 2019

The workshop will present various possibilities of creative use of micro:bit in working with children as an ideal tool to stimulate the development of digital literacy and computer thinking.

How to Teach Math in (Engineering) Context

Dr. Rebecca Christianson from Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA, with 15 years of integrated project based learning experience will hold a practical workshop on „How to Teach Mathematics in the (Engineering) Context“ at the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019.

In this workshop, participants will learn how to enhance student motivation towards mathematics by integrating fundamental mathematics learning into a hands-on, project-based engineering context.

Invited lecturer Paolo Zenzerović at the conference Engineering Education /EE

Paolo Zenzerović from the Institute for Youth Development and Innovativity  (IRIM) will hold an invited  lecture entitled "How to Develop Critical and Computational Thinking Early?" within the 42nd International ICT Convention MIPRO 2019 and the conference on Engineering Education /EE.

The world is changing so fast that it is clear that education has to change too - both the educational system and the way we educate. Those who enter this process are also changing: primary and high school and college students.

Round Table on Intelligent Production is a continuation of already traditional initiative of the CTS Symposia Organizers to talk about actualities having a “Production” as a key-word. This thematic field is addressed by inviting experts to present their projects and achievements in a form of Invited Keynotes. Invited Keynotes are also used to introduce topics and motivate the work of the Round Table which takes part of the timetable of the CTS Symposia, but it is also open for a broader audience. With this we invite all to join us on Thursday May 23rd at 10.30 in “Galija” hall of Remisens Hotel Admiral in Opatija.
 

MIPRO 2019 - workshop by Veljko Milutinović

This workshop sheds light on the essence of the dataflow paradigm and teaches the related programming model, so after attending it, the participants would be able to generate production level code for their applications that need acceleration and/or lower power consumption, using the current Maxeler DataFlow Engines, as well as the future Intel's ones. For general purpose code, this paradigm provides acceleration that could reach 20x or even 200x, while the power consumption gets 20x smaller; at the same time, physical size of the equipment gets considerably smaller, and conditions get generated for computing of a considerably higher precision.