MTA SZTAKI - Department of Distributed Systems

Dr. Laszlo KOVACS, technical doctor in computer sciences, is the founder and head of the Department of Distributed Systems (DSD) at MTA SZTAKI, the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. During beginning of his career he has been involved in different projects in the areas of computer network protocol design, specification, verification and implementation. He taught years in different foreign universities and research establishments including the University of Montreal (Canada), University of Delaware (USA) and the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). He is the member of the Advisory Committee of World Wide Web Consortium. He served as one of the Program Committee Chairs of the World Wide Web World Congress held in Budapest, in 2003, and was the General Chair of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries held in Budapest, in 2007. He is regular member of the steering and program committees of the ECDL / TPDL conference series and reviewer of EC and NSF.

Dr. András Micsik was active in the digital libraries field in all DELOS projects starting from 1995, where he was involved in distributed digital library architectures, semantic interoperability, digital library testing and evaluation. His main interests are interoperability and collaboration in digital libraries. He contributed to several international research projects in the topics of sharing metadata vocabularies, collaborative rating and filtering, peer-to-peer repository networks, etc. Recently, he works on the application of Semantic Web technologies in digital libraries. He is regular member of the program committee of the ECDL and ICADL conference series .

Chimpanzees are like humans, except they do not shave and have nicer glasses. Chimpanzees are smarter than human: they are able to learn a lot of things from humans (I, for example, can even write my resume, you see, with four hands!), but have you ever seen a human beeing hanging with one hand on a banana tree saying "eeyk-eeyk goo-goo-gaa-hahahaa-goo-goo-goo"? Although human beings are not able (or willing?) to learn from chimpanzees, they are quite nice domestic animals. Those of DSD, for example, let me program in Java, C or Perl, allow me to contribute to their international projects or even let me play around with their dictionary. But hanging one hand on a banana tree, well, that's The Real Thing, believe me...

I am sac. It is not too difficult to write down, just 3 simple letters without any meaning: s-a-c. It is as simple as I am. Being sac means that I can write programs in C, PHP, Java and in a lot of other languages. I have written some scientific papers, mostly as a PHd student of the University of Veszprém. I have taken my chance and knowledge with the Photoshop, and I'm not afraid of taking experiments with 3d ray-tracing software.

I'm an electrical engineer specialized in computer sciences. My main interests are text processing, plagiarism and similarity search, distributed systems, peer-to-peer technologies, web applications and accessibility (WAI). I received my Masters degree in 2002 from Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Karlsruhe University, in a joint, bilingual education program. At DSD I participated in both EU founded and Hungarian governmental R&D projects including StreamOnTheFly, EUTIST-AMI, KOPI, ORG, Kaposvár. Since January 2005 I am also the coordinator of the Hungarian Office of W3C. Besides programming I also enjoy hiking, skiing, the nature (especially in winter), photographing and reading.

I'm an engineer in Information Technologies. My main interests lie in intelligent and learning systems as well as current semantic web technologies and ontologies.

I completed my studies at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Since I've been working for DSD as an engineer in Information Technologies.

I graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics with MSc in IT/media technologies. My professional interests are:
- community-based technologies on the world wide web (community software, social tagging, peer-to-peer technology),
- design of graphical user interfaces, research of inteface technologies,
- mediatechnologies (audio- and video codecs).

In my free time I play the guitar - my solo-, base and western guitars, and my latest favorite, the ukulele.

I work for SZTAKI-DSD as a research associate in information technologies. I graduated from Budapest University of Technology and Economics with MSc in IT/media technologies.

I am a university student at BUTE, majoring in computer sciences. Even as a child, I loved all kinds of computers. When I have some free-time, I write programs, read books, watch movies, listen to music, or I hang out with my friends /girlfriend.

I graduated as a teacher of English language and literature, then got a degree in economic diplomacy and management at the Budapest Business School. After teaching for 8 years, I worked in the Hungarian National Museum in exhibition organizing for 1.5 years. From 2006 I acted as an assistant and regional project coordinator for a multinational company. I joined SZTAKI DSD in 2010 January, here I am dealing mainly with project administration and management.

I'm currently studying at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and I work for SZTAKI part-time. My favourite programming languages are C, Python and Bash. In my spare-time I like playing the guitar, reading, watching movies and developing Frugalware Linux.

Currently I am studying software engineering in the MSc program at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. I work for DSD part-time. I am mostly interested in various mobile platforms, especially in the Android platform. In my spare time I like watching movies, listening to music (that one applies to working hours as well), running, swimming and most recently I have a curious affection for conquering all kinds of vertical areas.

I'm studying computer engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, besides I am also a student at Eötvös Loránd University, learning psychology. I have a general interest in intelligent systems, especially in the field of robotics and computer vision. Here in DSD I'm studying and dealing with semantic web technologies.

I am currently studying at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, doing my Master's in Computer Science and Engineering (I only have my thesis project left). Mostly I have been working with Object-Oriented programming (Java, .NET) and web development (JavaScript, Prototype). In my free time I like to practice my favorite sport (orienteering) and work on our poker website with my brother.