We have received a very welcome hardware donation from Lightmass Dynamics company in form of two Nvidia Titan Xp graphics cards. They will be put to good use in our Computer Graphics and Visualization research especially related to Deep Learning.
Thank you!
Kids at Summer Schools at Faculty of Computer and Information Science.
Faculty of Computer and Information Science at Universit of Ljubljana has organized summer schools for primary and high school youth for the 11th year. And each year our laboratory members prepare and conduct one or more schools. This year we prepared three different summer schools: two for primary school children and one for high schoolers.:
A view on Ljubljana center (Prešeren square, Ljubljana castle and Ljubljanica river).
Recently we have finished the project Slovenia from blocks, where we presented a system for photorealistic rendering Slovenian landscape with 1 m sized blocks. Just a while ago two of our students contacted us if they could connect to our data provider for generating Slovenia Minecraft world. While the world of Slovenia is still generating the city of Ljubljana has mostly finished generating and can host users in spectator mode.
You can find out more about the project and on how to dive into the blocky world of Slovenia in Minecraft here.
Presenting project Slovenia from block to primary school pupils
For the second-year Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana has collaborated with Museum of Post and Telecommunications in organising an event Days of Computer Science.
The event is organized to bring the Computer Science closer to youngsters in primary and secondary schools by presenting interesting demo projects. Such projects show us that Computer Science is much more than just coding infinite lines of code, but that it is also a creative science which can interact with many different scientific fields.
The workshop involved hands-on courses in AppInventor environment
Members of our Laboratory have lead a three-week course on using AppInventor for developing simple mobile applications on Android platform. The course was intended for elementary and high-school teachers as a part of the National knowledge update program 2016. During the course the teachers have developed several simple applications that will help them with their teaching.
We hope teachers had good time and learned some new useful things that will help them with their teaching. More information and some of the final products can be found at the course home page here.
Alja during her acceptance speech for the Most Influential Woman award
Our lab member Alja Isaković was just selected as the national winner for the Most Influential Woman award at the Central European Startup Awards 2016! The award highlights the most inspirational and influential women of the startup ecosystem in each of the 10 participating CEE countries. Members of the jury and the national vote selected Alja as the winner in this category for her efforts in promoting women in ICT and years of experience in the Slovenian startup ecosystem.
Alja recently joined LGM as a PhD student to boost our research in the field of human-computer interaction and she will also be involved in our e-learning projects. You can also follow her work on ResearchGate and on Twitter.