Dr. Tomas Horváth, the head of the department, was participating in a PhD thesis defense committee at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, Slovakia. He was also a reviewer of the thesis entitled “Navigation Leads for Exploratory Search and Navigation in Digital Libraries” by Róbert Móro.

Dr. Tomas Horvath, the head of the department, was invited to give a talk on “Rating Prediction and Item Recommendation” at the Eastcode Sessions meetup in Košice, Slovakia. The talk was about basic matrix factorization approaches for rating prediction and item recommendation. Furher information: https://www.meetup.com/eastcode-sessions/