Building on the success of the 2005 AIT Summer School on ‘Emerging ICT Technologies’, the 2006 Summer School on ‘Next Generation Computing Systems’, and the 2007 Summer School on ‘Recent Advances in Telecommunications, Networking and Distributed Computing Systems’, AIT organized its 4th consecutive Summer School for undergraduate/graduate students.
The 2008 Summer School was titled ‘Leading Edge Network and Service Infrastructures’ and took place June 30 to July 11 2008, at the AIT premises in Peania.
Twenty nine (29) participants from 9 countries (Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, China, Ethiopia, Greece, Jordan, Romania and Tunisia) had the opportunity to attend a balanced mix of courses, laboratory activities, social events, excursion programs and visits to the INTRACOM group of companies. The seminars were addressed mostly to students and professionals from computer science, computational science, engineering and application backgrounds.
Top-notch students were awarded scholarships.
Two Jordanian students were awarded Queen Rania Scholarships and four more scholarships were offered to the four best Bulgarian applicants.

 

The program was structured into two weekly modules:
1.The Present & Future of Networking and Telecommunications, which covered Overview & current trends in Networking & Telecommunications, Data Networks & Internet Wireless Networks, Optical Networks, Network Security
 
2.Human Centric Computing which dealt with the broad range of
computing, Semantic Computing, Pervasive Computing, Context Aware Computing, and Utility Computing. Among the highlights of this year’s Summer School were two talks by Sun Microsystems evangelists on the ‘green’ state-of-the-art data centers, as well as leading edge enterprise Java technologies.

Students also attended a presentation by Dr. Panos Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.

The Summer School’s social program included swimming events in Varkiza, social dinners, visits to the Acropolis and Sounio, as well as an excursion to the island of Aegina.
Social events created a warm, friendly and collaborative atmosphere among the participants.

Overall, the participants expressed their satisfaction in attending a high quality summer school which also included a rich variety of social activities.

Athens Information Technology (AIT) acknowledges the valuable support from all the sponsors of this summer school including INTRACOM Holdings, Hellas On Line, Sun Microsystems, INTRACOM Bulgaria, City Press, Flash.gr, look4 studies.COM, Study Smart, PC Magazine, OnLine, Mad Radio.