The BME VIK Department of Measurement and Information Systems celebrated the 70th anniversary of its foundation by presenting the outstanding successes of the past decades and the new research and innovation directions of the forthcoming years. In response to the evolution of the department's focus areas, we announced a name change at the event on 18 June: keeping the MIT acronym, but now, under the name of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Systems Engineering, we will continue our successful research and teaching work.

Hyperledger – an umbrella project with the stewardship of the Linux Foundation – is organizing its blockchain-focused Summer Internship program in 2021 again. The Dept. of Measurement and Information Systems (MIT) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) is proud to announce that it will participate in the program with a mentor and mentored project – the third time in the brief history of the Summer Internship.

The “Addressing Verification and Validation Challenges in Future Cyber-Physical Systems” (ADVANCE) H2020 RISE research project has started this year with the participation of researchers from our department working on the challenges of future cyber-physical systems. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are complex systems where the physical aspects are deeply integrated with the communication and computing (cyber) parts providing physical systems with new “intelligent” capabilities.

Texas Instruments (TI) has donated development systems supporting the educational and research activities of the department. We have received TI CC2650 Wireless Sensortags and CC2650 Wireless MCU LaunchPad Kits and they are going to be available for project subjects such as project laboratory and thesis work. Thanks for TI for the continuing support!