Witold Machura interviews Prof. Jan Węglarz, PhD, DSc
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Witold Machura<\/div>
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Witold Machura<\/div>
: In your opinion, what was 2005 like for Polish computer science?<\/div><\/div>
Jan Węglarz<\/div>
: I will limit my answer to the sphere of science and education, which is closest to me. Well, in this sphere, it was a good, or even a very good year. Prof. Roman Słowiński received the “Polish Nobel Prize,” Poznań hosted the largest European networking conference, TERENA 2005, for the first time in Central and Eastern European countries (with the participation of prominent network and grid experts from outside Europe), our students took second place in the prestigious Computer Systems Design Competition (CSIDC) in Washington (for the fifth time in the top three!), won the Imagine Cup competition in Yokohama and the International 24-Hour Programming Contest in Budapest. Poland (collectively) won the TopCoder competition, and the finals of the 17th Olympiad in Informatics took place in Nowy Sącz, which brought us 1 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze medal.<\/div><\/div>
W.M.<\/div>
: To what extent are we – as a country and an IT community – competitive for Europe and the world?<\/div><\/div>
J.W.<\/div>
: I believe that Poland as a country and our IT community can be competitive for Europe and the world. This is evidenced by the quality of our staff – our young IT specialists have been winning major global IT competitions in recent years. On the other hand, a number of companies are opening <\/div>
logistics, research and development, and production centers in Poland (e.g., Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Intel, IBM, DELL). I think this trend will deepen in the coming years, because technologically advanced companies have so far been massively opening research and development and programming centers, for example, <\/div>
in India. However, it turned out that the cultural differences are significant enough to prevent long-term results. But since the drive to reduce the costs of preparing and manufacturing new products will become increasingly strong, new labor markets will also be sought. <\/div>
Poland is mentioned as one of them. It therefore has a chance, provided it is competitive, unfortunately not only from the point of view of well-prepared staff.
The article comes from the magazine <\/div><\/div>
e-F2006-1s12.pdf<\/a>
The article comes from the magazine <\/div><\/div>
e-F2006-1s12.pdf<\/a>