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On February 24 next transmission from the operation carried out in the Department of Otolaryngology of Poznań University of Medical Sciences will be held. The operation of surgical treatment of otosclerosis will be conducted by the head of the Department – Professor Witold Szyfter.

Europe’s largest IT fair will take place from 1 to 5 March in Hanover. We are giving away free tickets for fans of modern technology. Tickets also entitle to use public transport for free during the event.

The official website of the city of Poznań changed its layout. There is also a new, “lighter” version of the portal targeted at users of mobile phones and other portable devices.

With unanimous support from his peers and the TERENA Technical Committee, Maciej Brzezniak of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) has become the new chair of TF-Storage. He will replace Jan Meijer of UNINETT, the Norwegian national research and education network (NREN), who has led the task force since its launch in February 2008.

Earlier this week Europeana updated information about resources from digital libraries connected via the PIONIER DLF. We are happy to announce that the publications number has increased by more than 100 thousand since last update and it counts exactly 462 796 objects.

As a part of the EuropeanaLocal project, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center performed a series of tests of the Europeana portal with its potential end users in Poland. The tests were conducted in January this year.

The Government has announced that by the end of 2013 there will be Internet connection available in every Polish house. This would be allowed thanks to existing fiber networks owned by different organizations, including Consortium Pionier – informs Polish daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

As early as in March this year there will be another PRACE seminar, co-organized by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. The meeting in March, 28-29, will be hosted by the City of Stockholm.

ACCESS IT e-learning courses were developed to facilitate education in the area of digitisation and digital libraries in Greece, Serbia and Turkey. Reference materials developed by PSNC – released in October 2010, were deployed, translated and customized by ACCESS IT partners. We are very pleased to announce that this work has been finished in Turkey.

The New Year offers us new perspectives, presents new challenges, we look in future with hope of something new and better. Every New Year is also an occasion to draw conclusions, reflections on what we have done, what we have achieved in the past year. For Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center year 2010 was unique in several aspects. We present a brief summary of PSNC’s activity in the last twelve months.

To all those who followed our success by visiting our website in the outgoing year, thank you.

Over the next year 2011 we wish you only triumphs and continuous development.

We also invite you to continue reading our website.

Two investments in construction of Polish Optical Internet PIONIER network – a nationwide broadband optical science network – were completed in December.