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WORLD ELECTRONICS FORUM. London , September 14-16, 2005. Florin VREJOIU Executive Vice-president ARIES. Long tradition in mathematics and informatics - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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WORLD ELECTRONICS FORUMLondon, September 14-16, 2005

Florin VREJOIU

Executive Vice-presidentARIES

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Long tradition in mathematics and informatics 

Ten years before NORBERT WINER – the Romanian scientist STEFAN ODOBLEJA had prefigured the bases of cybernetics by his paper “The Consonant Psychology” edited in Paris. In this book the concept of feed-back is defined for the first time. 

1942 – the first computer with ENIAC electronic tubes – USA. 1957 Romania – the first computer (CIFA-1) with electronic tubes The first country in South-Eastern Europe and the fourth in Europe

  1960 – the first computers with transistors (mass production) – IBM and Data Corporation control 1964 Romania – the first computer fully equipped with transistors (CET-500) The first country in South-Eastern Europe and the eleventh in the world 

1972 – the first computers network - ARPANET, USA 1985 Romania - the first computers network (RENAC/RENOD) The first socialist country

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Exceptional geographic position Romania is situated on the borderline of three great commodity markets:

Western Europe, the former Soviet States and the Middle East (Eurasia)

Large and accessible market Romania is the second largest country in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of surface

area and population

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Very good educational system

Annually 5000 university graduates in the software field

Cisco Networking Academy program – Romania holds the 11th place in the world More then 3.000 students - 105 local Cisco academies.

2001 - The first Ericsson academy in Romania

2002 - Autodesk has made the biggest donation in the world for Romanian universities - 64 Mil USD in software products.

2001 - Professor Sandu POPESCU was awarded the Adams prize by Cambridge University

2003 - Constantin TELEMAN was awarded Senior Whitehead Prize by London Mathematical Society

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Acknowledged human resources

2002 - The team of students from the POLITEHNICA University Bucharest has won the Computer Society International Design Competition

2000, 2001 and 2002 - Romania has won first place among nations at the World Innovations Research and New Technology EUREKA Show

2002 - 34 Romanian pupils have gained international Olympic prizes this year in IT and mathematics

2005 – Romania holds top spot for most medals won in the all-time International Mathematical Olympiads nations standings.

2005 – In the all-time International Informatics Olympiads nations standings, Romania holds third place.

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Acknowledged human resources

Romania holds first place in Europe regarding the number of certified IT persons in Brainbench studies

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Absence of linguistic barriers

  The English language – spoken by everyone working in the IT&C sector

The German language – strong German minority in Transylvania

The French language – since the 19th century Romania has been a French- speaking country

The Italian and Spanish have the same Latin roots as the Romanian language

"Romanians are best foreign language speakers in Europe", according to the Eastern European Translators Association. 

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Experienced and dynamic companies

2001 - OMNIS GROUP has won the Microsoft Retail Application Developers European Contest

2002 - The European Commission has declared SOFTWIN the most innovative high-tech company in Eastern Europe.

2003 - SIMEDA, a Romanian-German company, was awarded the World Java Champion prize for the best wireless application by portal Handango.

2004 - ROMSYS is the only enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe that received the certification “Star Supplier” from the American corporation Lockhead Martin.

2004 - INTERAKT - certified as „Alliance Macromedia Partner”

2004 - GeCAD - security technology bought by Microsoft Corporation

2003 - THE NATIONAL ELECTRONIC SYSTEM (www.e-guvernare.ro) was the only European e-Government application that received the World Summit Award (WSA) at the World Summit for Information Society (WSIS)

2004 - Romania and Japan received The Global Information Technology Excellence Award for the “e-Government Initiative”. The distinction was awarded by WITSA (World Information Technology and Services Alliance) during the World Congress on Information Technology

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Romanian Software and IT Services Export, 1997-2004

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Opening toward foreign investors

Romania has special programs and facilities for attracting foreign investors

Ongoing investment frame in the stage of harmonizing itself with the European Union legislation (Romania is a nominee to EU adhering)

The foreign citizens have the same status and ownerships rights as the Romanian citizens

Support from the authorities

The Romanian government has defined the IT&C sector as a strategic priority for Romania’s development

Software employees don't have to pay salary taxes.

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Foreign Companies using Romanian R&D

ALCATEL - embedded software for telecom

SIEMENS - car navigation systems

MOTOROLA - compilers

KATREIN - wireless network equipments

ALVARION BREZE - telecom equipments

ORACLE - opened (February 2004) five Global IT and Technology Centers in Romania

INFINEON – to set up a R&D center 

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About ARIES

The largest IT&C association in CCE

Civil Society award for the category of "Promotion of the Business and Professional Interests”

Innovation Relay Center (IRC) for Romania

Main partner of EICTA and ITC Geneva in Romania

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ARIES' involvement in growing the competitiveness of Romanian organizations

Integrating Romanian organizations into the European Research Network

Projects - European IST (www.european-ist.net)

- IST Bonus (www.ist-bonus.net)

- ISIS (www.isisnet.org)

Enhancing Romanian participation in the European Tehnology Transfer Network

Projects - IRC4D (www.irc4d.ro)

Mobile Technology Roadmapping

Projects - Alipro (http://alipro.eurescom.de)

European Intergration of the Romanian ICT industry

Projects: - Electranet (www.electranet.org)

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Thank You For Your Attention!  

Florin VREJOIUExecutive Vice-President

[email protected]