Articles for 'project PISA'

Blink is an Art&D project about creating a transparent and reflective environment, which stimulates social contact, but also unveils social paradigm concerning both the digital as the urban domain in a general sense. The project is currently exhibited at the Noorderlicht Festival and will be exhibited at the Discovery Festival soon. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Blink, Culture & Media, Digital Society Department, Future Media & Imaging Department.

Two streets and a square in Ghent (Walpoortstraat, Lammerstraat and the square Het Zuid) become the setting of a reality film... ‘Tomorrow the ground forgets you were here' has been running since September 1st! Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department, When words.

The Art&D artists keep us updated on their projects by means of a blog item every once in a while. Here's a blog item of Yorgos Patsis, IBBT researcher, on his project When words. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department, When words.

The Art&D artists keep us updated on their projects by means of a blog item every once in a while. Here's another blog item of Lawrence Malstaf on his project Pavilion. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department, Pavilion.

In view of the increasing importance of the creative aspects of technology innovation, IBBT has created the Art&D program. By this program IBBT wishes to encourage artists to integrate research in their work and expects new ideas, new research and of course a valuable artistic result will be the result.  Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Nico Verplancke.

End of June, MEDIA Desk organized a second Crossover Lab with success in the modern D-Hotel in Kortrijk, Belgium. This year the theme was ‘Play’ and emphasis was on gaming, interactivity and fun. During the whole event the possibilities of the internet and social media were examined. Read more...

This article is about Culture & Media, gaming.

Special Issue of Telematics and Informatics Journal - In drawing and examining the social-cultural, industry and policy processes that accompany the digitization of television, this special issue aims to contribute to a multi-faceted understanding of the conditions and forces that cause the changes and orient the evolution of digital broadcasting. Read more...

This article is about Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department.

On June 15th, UitSalon and IBBT organized the Cupid Salon in Brussels. In collaboration with several partners from cultural and research areas, CUPID’s goal is to generate a greater enthusiasm for cultural activities. At this event, the new project ICIS was presented. Read more...

This article is about Culture & Media, CUPID, ICIS.

New media offer great opportunities for preserving and distributing our collective memories. Memory institutions – such as museums, archives and libraries- are increasingly using new media to distribute their digital collections. In this way these collections can be viewed by a potentially larger group of participants. However there are still many operational challenges to face. Read more...

This article is about Archipel, Culture & Media.

Everyday more than 10.000 internet users find their way to UiTinVlaanderen.be (OuTinFlanders), the most used OuT agenda for Flanders and Brussels. From today on this is site is opened up for every mobile phone with internet access. Read more...

This article is about Culture & Media.

Symposium Kom je eten? 4 - Appels en Peren "Kom je ook? 4 - Appels en Peren" is a conference full of inspiring new ideas and hands-on examples on public participation in the arts, culture and heritage sector. Kom je ook? responds to the current topic of how cultural institutions can connect with society. The symposium is organized by Mediamatic in collaboration with Stichting DOEN, Mondriaanstichting and Makelovenotart. Read more...

This article is about Culture & Media, Heritage 2.0.

IBBT expands its activities in the domain of culture and media, with particular focus on gaming technology. In total a budget of 2 million can be spend on several measures within the domain culture and media. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media.

Alexander Bertrand of iMinds-SISTA-KULeuven wins the Science Price IBM Belgium for his work on ‘Distributed signal processing algorithms for wireless acoustic sensor networks. Read more...

This article is about Future Health Department.

Health Care has been staggering under the weight of new demands. There is little question that change is needed. Thus, IBBT would like to invite you to attend iMinds 2012, to debate on the future of health care....  Read more...

This article is about Future Health Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, Healthy Society.

The proceedings of the  IBBT-ITEC-KULeuven conference on serious gaming that took place in October 2011 are issued in the book ‘Serious Games: The Challenge’.  Read more...

This article is about Future Health Department, serious gaming.

IBBT, IWT/E.E.N. and Flanders Care would like to invite you to the AAL Forum taking place in Eindhoven on September 24-27. Togheter we will man the Flemish region booth. Read more...

This article is about Future Health Department, Healthy Society, living labs.

EWSN (the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks) is the leading European conference on wireless sensor networks. From February 13 to 15, 2013 the 10th annual meeting takes place in Het Pand in Ghent under the chairmanship of Piet Demeester (iMinds-IBCN-UGent). Call for posters and demos is now open!  Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department.

IJARAS, the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems, launched a new call for papers. Next deadline is on December 14.  Read more...

This article is about call-papers, Future Internet Department.

The paper entitled "Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Wireless Applications Inside Aircraft Cabins" won the best paper award at the 31st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). Co-authors of this paper are Prof. Ingrid Moerman, dr. Stefan Bouckaert and ir. Wei Liu from the Future Internet Department (iMinds-IBCN-UGent). Congratulations!  Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department.

Two bright minds to be proud of at iMinds-IBCN-UGent: Bam Naudts & Dr. Francisco Ferranti. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department.

The Confine project is designing, building and operating a distributed testbed to support experimental research in community networking. For these experiments, funding is available under this call. Deadline is 19th October.  Read more...

This article is about Confine, Future Internet Department, Social & Secure ICT.

During this workshop, experts in the field of broadcasting from all over the world will be brought together to give their views on the future of broadcasting. We welcome you at Het Pand (Ghent, Belgium) on March 6-7. Read more...

This article is about broadcasting, Future Internet Department, IBBT-WiCa-UGent, workshop.

Outerthought and Oxynade, two software companies from the Belgian Ghent area, are collaborating in the context of the TWIRL project, a European research project on open platforms able to process, mine, interlink and fuse data originating from real world applications and on-line data sources. The research groups IBBT/Ghent University (IBCN) and Sirris join their effort. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department, IBBT-IBCN-UGent, innovation, outerthought.

The E-Culture Fair must visualize and stimulate the growing trend towards cooperation between culture, research, innovation and the creative industry.  Thanks to the catalogue, participating E-culture projects will get the chance to initiate the reader in changing practices. Read more...

This article is about De mediatuin, Digital Society Department, EPICS, Future Internet Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, Ghent m, iLab.o, Museus.

On December 6th and 7th, the MOSQUITO project partners and the MOBIWEBAPP project are organising the second interop event. This time, the focus will be on HTML5 web applications for mobile devices. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department, MOSQUITO, open web platform.

Unleashing Immersive Experiences was the theme of the Bell Labs Belgium Open Day (October 18th). The Open Day not only presented cautionary talks, though, but also lots of interactive and interesting demo’s that offer a glimpse of what the future might offer. The strategic relevance of IBBT’s research was once more confirmed when Nicolas Staelens turned out to be the winner of the Student Competition. Read more...

This article is about Alcatel-Lucent, Future Internet Department, IBBT-IBCN-UGent.

At the 50th FITCE congres in Palermo  one of the IBBT-UGent researchers got awarded with the 'Best Young Presenter' award for her presentation on “How to measure the success rate of fibre-based access networks.”  Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department, ibbt-intec-ugent.

The Flemish television programme Villa Vanthilt, offers its viewers a unique look behind the scenes, by using IBBT's 360° camera, operated by the viewer itself. From within your own living room, you can choose the angle from which you desire to watch the show. A brand-new perspective on how television is made. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department, IBBT-EDM-UHasselt, xTV.

CREW is looking for experiments in the cognitive radio and cognitive networking research domain that make use of the CREW facilities. The FP7 project CREW requires the participation of a new partner to carry out certain tasks within the project. Read more...

This article is about FP7, Future Internet Department.

  A research group is being set up at the IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) bundling research efforts, use cases and architectures on learning techniques for communication networks. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department, IBBT-IBCN-UGent.

The paper “Assessing Quality of Experience of IPTV and Video on Demand Services in Real-Life Environments”, building on the results from the IBBT project Video Q-SAQ, has been nominated to be included in the June 2011 issue of MMTC’s R-letter. Read more...

This article is about Digital Society Department, Future Internet Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, IBBT-IBCN-UGent, IBBT-MMLab-UGent, IBBT-SMIT-VUB, Video Q-SAC.

Video demonstration for the 3 DUI contest 2011. For the second year in a row a team of researchers of EDM-UHasselt (research group of IBBT) have won a prize in this contest: this year they ended up third. Read more...

This article is about 3d, Future Internet Department, IBBT-EDM-UHasselt.

In May, the next webmission is heading for San Francisco, to promote Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurship abroad, by increasing its visibility and international network. Read more...

This article is about Future Internet Department, Google, Internet of the Future.

A week before "De Ronde van Vlaanderen', Sporza hit the road with 360° degree camera. This application was developed in the context of the IBBT ICON project "Exploatieve tv or xTV". Put your self in the position of a camera man and take part in the Sporza Contest.     Read more...

This article is about Digital Society Department, Future Internet Department, xTV.

IBBT is participating in no less than seven of the new projects approved in the second wave of the European FIRE initiative (Future Internet Research and Experimentation), combining experimentally driven research and a number of test facilities. IBBT's participation in these projects is accountable for 5% of the total budget of this second wave, with a heavy involvement of the iLabs in each of them. Both waves combined, IBBT goes head to head with Fraunhofer, a world leading institute in this domain. Read more...

This article is about FIRE, Future Internet Department, iLab.t.

An important new Internet standard has been published with the help of the research group iMinds-MMLab. The PROV standard will ensure a safer, trustworthier Internet by better tracing the origin (or provenance) of information. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department.

What happens if the principle "Six degrees of separation" is tested with Linked Data? With their app “Everything is connected”, iMinds-MultimediaLab-UGent creates a story between you and and any other place, person, or concept in the world, based on Linked Data. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department.

The legal obligation of dead angle mirrors has not lead to an appreciable drop in accidents. Many of these fatalities, however, could be avoided by practical and affordable technology, including sensors and camera systems. Active Sideguard by iMinds-ETRO-VUB’s spinoff EXIA is a unique and innovative blind spot accident avoidance device. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department, Mobility & Logistics.

iMinds-UGent-MMLab has focused on W3C standardisation since 2007. Within the Media Fragments working group their efforts have proved to be fruitful: on September 25 they obtained a W3C Recommendation for the document Media Fragments URI 1.0. A sign for Erik Mannens to re-enforce MMLab's contributions within the W3C family of standards (e.g., Provenance, Linked Data Platform, eGov) and a last milestone in Davy Van Deursen's career at MMLab. We wish Davy all the luck with his new job!   Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department.

Health Care has been staggering under the weight of new demands. There is little question that change is needed. Thus, IBBT would like to invite you to attend iMinds 2012, to debate on the future of health care....  Read more...

This article is about Future Health Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, Healthy Society.

Blink is an Art&D project about creating a transparent and reflective environment, which stimulates social contact, but also unveils social paradigm concerning both the digital as the urban domain in a general sense. The project is currently exhibited at the Noorderlicht Festival and will be exhibited at the Discovery Festival soon. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Blink, Culture & Media, Digital Society Department, Future Media & Imaging Department.

Two streets and a square in Ghent (Walpoortstraat, Lammerstraat and the square Het Zuid) become the setting of a reality film... ‘Tomorrow the ground forgets you were here' has been running since September 1st! Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department, When words.

The Art&D artists keep us updated on their projects by means of a blog item every once in a while. Here's a blog item of Yorgos Patsis, IBBT researcher, on his project When words. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department, When words.

Both TEDx Brussels and the IEEE ICIP 2011 Conference have been nominated as one of the three best international conferences organized in Brussels last year. Read more...

This article is about Creative Media Days, Future Media & Imaging Department, TEDx.

The Art&D artists keep us updated on their projects by means of a blog item every once in a while. Here's another blog item of Lawrence Malstaf on his project Pavilion. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department, Pavilion.

Flemish editors are doing very well with strip cartoons, children’s books, illustrated nonfiction and educative publications. With the Publishing House of the Future, this will get even better!  Read more...

This article is about Digital Society Department, Future Media & Imaging Department.

The Art&D artists keep us updated on their projects by means of a blog item every once in a while. Here's the first blog item of Lawrence Malstaf on his project Pavilion. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Future Media & Imaging Department, Nico Verplancke, Pavilion.

Nine young UGent researchers all want to give a talk on TEDxGhent University Contest. IBBT-MMLAB-UGent researcher Ruben Verborgh is one of them!  Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department.

Are you a programmer or designer? A hacker in heart and soul? Good news! On March 24th, the city of Ghent has organized the second edition of Apps For Ghent, in collaboration with IBBT-Multimedia Lab and OKFNbe. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department, Ghent.

The five new Archipel videos on digital preservation were mentioned on the Library of Congress blog because of their highly entertaining character.   Read more...

This article is about Archipel, Digital Society Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, IWT-PIM.

IBBT-MMLab-UGent (Multimedia Lab at Ghent University) and ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) joined forces and launched “Free your metadata”. This initiative explains to museums and libraries how they must deal with their metadata. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department, IBBT-MMLab-UGent, ulb.

The E-Culture Fair must visualize and stimulate the growing trend towards cooperation between culture, research, innovation and the creative industry.  Thanks to the catalogue, participating E-culture projects will get the chance to initiate the reader in changing practices. Read more...

This article is about De mediatuin, Digital Society Department, EPICS, Future Internet Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, Ghent m, iLab.o, Museus.

As a result from trends like digitalization and social media, the future of radio and television is changing dramatically. Traditional media like we know today should change its form in the coming years in order to keep its head above water. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department.

In June of this year, Flemish minister Ingrid Lieten announced the foundation of the Media Innovation Center (MIC). The MIC will become an expertise center on media innovation for the Flemish media sector. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department.

The third International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) brings together leading professionals and scientists to discuss methods for evaluating multimedia quality and user experience. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department, IBBT-ETRO-VUB.

Special Issue of Telematics and Informatics Journal - In drawing and examining the social-cultural, industry and policy processes that accompany the digitization of television, this special issue aims to contribute to a multi-faceted understanding of the conditions and forces that cause the changes and orient the evolution of digital broadcasting. Read more...

This article is about Culture & Media, Future Media & Imaging Department.

Gent M#8 is all about social media: 31th of May: not only the mayor but also Polle de Maagt (InSites Consulting) will be there to talk about social media. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department, Ghent m, Social & Secure ICT.

The paper “Assessing Quality of Experience of IPTV and Video on Demand Services in Real-Life Environments”, building on the results from the IBBT project Video Q-SAQ, has been nominated to be included in the June 2011 issue of MMTC’s R-letter. Read more...

This article is about Digital Society Department, Future Internet Department, Future Media & Imaging Department, IBBT-IBCN-UGent, IBBT-MMLab-UGent, IBBT-SMIT-VUB, Video Q-SAC.

The research dotation to the IBBT will be increased with 4,2 million euro from 2007. Read more...

This article is about Future Media & Imaging Department, IWT.

Twenty years after the 'big leap forward' in democracy, media pluralism is in trouble in too many countries in the wider Europe. That’s why the London lawyer Siobhan Grey and IBBT-ICRI-KULeuven research professor Peggy Valcke took the initiative to organize a pan-European debate on media pluralism.  Read more...

This article is about Digital Society Department, New Media.

The Art&D artists keep us updated on their projects by means of a blog item every once in a while. Here's the first blog item of Lawrence Malstaf on his project Pavilion. Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Future Media & Imaging Department, Nico Verplancke, Pavilion.

In view of the increasing importance of the creative aspects of technology innovation, IBBT has created the Art&D program. By this program IBBT wishes to encourage artists to integrate research in their work and expects new ideas, new research and of course a valuable artistic result will be the result.  Read more...

This article is about Art&D, Culture & Media, Nico Verplancke.

Evolutions and innovations in our knowledge based internet society, that was the recurring theme throughout the iMinds congress iBBT organized on Thursday December 16th in Gent. iMinds was part of the Future Internet Conference Week. How do we deal with all the data we created since the start of internet? How do companies implement these data in their business plan? Read more...

This article is about Alcatel-Lucent, Clear2Pay, Future Internet Conference Week, innovation, Neelie Kroes, Nico Verplancke, Peter Hirshberg, Plug & Play, Televic.

Digital archives are sexy. Of course dusty paper exerts an irresistible attractive force – leather-bound volumes with faded lettering, row after row, in wooden cabinets higher than a man. Naturally bringing out the slide collection again with the family around can provide some lovely moments. But in digital form archives lose nothing of their allure. Read more...

This article is about Internet of the Future, Nico Verplancke.

Blog message from Nico Verplancke, published on Cobra.be about innovating musical instruments for electronic compositions as well as more classical melodies. Not just their news value, but also the usabilty is discusses by means of two examples on video: 'Reactable' and 'Piano Stairs'. Read more...

This article is about Nico Verplancke.