FRUCT January newsletter is now available here.

Tampere University of Technology (Finland), the FRUCT partner program calls for applications for International M.Sc. Programme in Information Technology.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

The applicant must have a 3- or 4-year Bachelor of Science degree from an internationally recognised university, which has to be listed in the latest edition of the International Handbook of Universities. The B.Sc. degree should be in the field of computing, information technology, electrical engineering, computer science or another discipline related to the programme, entailing proficiency in mathematics, physics and computer science.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

By March 15, 2010 the following documents are required (they are described in greater detail in the application guide):

• Copy of the original Bachelor of Science degree certificate
• English translation of the B.Sc. degree certificate
• Copy of the original study transcript (courses of the B.Sc. degree)
• English translation of the study transcript
• Certificate of proficiency in English (IELTS, TOEFL or CPE/CAE)
• Statement of purpose
• Curriculum Vitae / Resume
• Recommendation letters (a minimum of 2 recommendation letters from academic and/or professional referees with their contact information)
• Financial statement and proof of financial support

Further information: http://www.cs.tut.fi/uniprogramme/

From the provided link you can download guidelines for web developers who want to ensure that their pages work well with the Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 OS.

More details are available here.

This training course gives you a deep view on developing Qt applications for the Maemo 5 platform. You will be familiarised with the Maemo platform and development tools, learn to port Qt applications from other platforms to Maemo, and fine-tune the UI for Maemo and Qt features available in Maemo. More information is available here.

Developers can now use Qt to target the N900 device and also ensures that applications can be easily ported to all Qt’s supported platforms including the next Maemo 6 release as well as Symbian and Windows Mobile. More information is available at: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-for-maemo-developers.

February 8-13, 2010

The school is for senior students who know  C, C++ and development tools on Linux. The main purpose of the school is to give the conseption about Qt as a development tool for programming on platforms Maemo v5 and MeeGo. 
Organizers: FRUCT, IT-park of Petrozavodsk State University, PetrSU department of Computer Science. 
Lecturer: Krinkin Kirill, St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI", Open Source & Linux Lab.

More details see here.

FRUCT December newsletter is now available here.

June 22-26th, 2010, Tomsk, Russia

The conference aims to organize a multidisciplinary forum for scientists exploring cognition and its evolution; intellect; thinking; perception; consciousness; knowledge representation and acquisition; language as a means of cognition and communication; brain mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behavior. Psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, specialists in education, artificial intelligence, neuroinformatics and cognitive ergonomics, as well as other researchers interested in interdisciplinary research on cognition are invited to participate in the conference. The conference program will include lectures by leading experts in multidisciplinary cognitive studies. The names of the invited lecturers will be announced at the conference website http://www.cogsci2010.ru/eng/.

Organizers of the conference provide free accommodation at the hotels of Tomsk for the participants of the conference (free accommodation for 1 presenter of a poster or an oral presentation for the term of the conference). Deadline for abstract submission is January 22, 2010.