Hungarian W3C Office

The Hungarian W3C Office is located at the MTA SZTAKI (Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). At present this Institute is the only one state owned research institute in the field of information technology and networking in Hungary. It has the following important links with the local economic and social environment:

• problem solving, consulting, system integration based on the results of basic and applied research,
• participation in graduate and post-graduate education (common chairs and Ph. D. programmes with all bigger Hungarian universities),
• participation of Ph.D. and graduate students in research,
• managing the nation-wide computer network for "academic" institutions (universities, public collections ...), creating new contents, services and consulting the users,
• organization of special courses and training.

The main disciplines followed by the research groups in the Institute are as follows:

• Computer sciences (symbolic computations, databases, algorithms).
• Information technology: wide area and local networks, WWW, multimedia, and digital libraries.
• Parallel and distributed computer systems.
• Applied mathematics: graph theory, financial mathematics, statistics.
• Operations research and decision support systems.
• Design and implementation of analogical (Cellular Nonlinear Networks) algorithms.
• System science, signal processing and control: dynamic systems, identification, fault detection, robust control.
• Production informatics, Intelligent manufacturing processes and systems.

This Institute is a member of the W3C since 1995.

The headquarter of this Office is at the Department of Distributed Systems. The primary aim of this Department is the research and development of distributed computer applications including World Wide Web-based software systems, groupware systems and services, digital library systems, digital art projects, audio/video conferencing environments.

The Office's responsible manager is the leader of the host Department, Dr. László Kovács. He is also the AC representative for MTA SZTAKI.

László is ably supported by the coordinators of the Office:

Viktor Richter , a research fellow at MTA SZTAKI.

Máté Pataki , a research fellow at MTA SZTAKI.