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A look back, summary of the 2021-2022 academic year

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A look back, summary of the 2021-2022 academic year

Through this publication we invite you to take a tour of some of the most outstanding moments of the intense 2021-2022 academic year, which will conclude in the coming days with the defense of the End of Study Projects (TFE), and the gaze set on the start of the next course. There are many events to load, so we ask you for a little patience to load the full page 🙂

September 2021

The ESI prepared to receive the students and applied changes to your corporate image, maintaining its essence.

On September 16 we kicked off with the course presentation. In a first session we received the new first-year students and, later, those from the rest of the courses.

Some of the new students already had their first contact with the School in the Course 0 of Mathematics and Physics the September 9.

After the presentations, the students were gradually adapting to the day to day of the School

The jury of the iDanae national award, to women with excellent professional STEM careers, awarded a second prize to Professor Coral Calero

At the end of the month also began the Mentor Program 2021-2022 in which the collaboration of our veteran students is paramount.

began our sports competitions yearly and the Turing Machine awards were convened for the best Final Degree Projects (TFG) and Final Master's Projects (TFM)

October 2021

Holy button!, one of the most special weeks of the entire course. Day of coexistence full of cultural and leisure activities, where our students learn and put into practice the knowledge acquired. This week was the XNUMXth business conference with numerous participation from both the academic and business sides.

Santa Tecla's agenda included, among other activities: Hackathon, capture the flag (cybersecurity test), open-air theater, sports and e-sports competitions, chess tournament...

Some of the activities were broadcast live through our new Twitch channel

and concluded with the awards ceremony

On Thursday afternoon/evening we celebrated the graduation ceremony 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 at the Luis Arroyo Auditorium, with Gracia Sánchez Vizcaíno as godmother of both promotions

Professor Mario Piattini held a prominent position in the Stanford World Ranking, which places him among the best researchers in the world

November 2021

After the delivery of the Turing machine awards At the graduation ceremony, a summary video of the winning works was publicly shown.

From the initial months of the course we tried to echo the activity carried out at the School and the benefits they can bring to society. Some examples were: an interview with Professor Luis Jiménez by regional television media about Artificial Intelligence applied to sport, an activity on "Green Software and AI" by the Green Team Alarcos, or the interview by Investiga CMM with Carlos González about our communication skills:

The company NTTData visited us, through María José Sarrión Camacho, to talk to us about its People Management and Development model. Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas also visited us to give the conference "Techniques to be a good Game Designer" and participate as a guest professor in the Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, in the subject of Virtual and Augmented Reality.

continued the conference cycle planned for the course, with "Facial recognition for Low-Cost IoT devices" by Unai Elordi and "Welcome to the 4.0 WTF society", by Antonio Ramos

Our students combined sports activity with academics

On November 25 we installed a Violet Point against gender violence at the School

December 2021

Professors Juan Carlos López and Carlos González participated in the 5G technology day organized by the Regional Center for Digital Innovation of Talavera de la Reina

Professor Mario Piattini and Professor Maria José Santofimia received the Grace Hooper awards for computer scientist of the year and for best European project, respectively, by COIICLM

We pay tribute to our colleague Concha Avilero, and the recently retired colleagues in the previous course:

and we started collaboration with the Pozuelo Handball Club for sports data collection and analysis

and the end of 2021 has arrived!

January 2022

In January 2022 the HEI student visits to the School for whom we had prepared a guided tour of our facilities. Some of the visitors will be new students in the 2022-2023 academic year

The first test of the computer olympics with the IES of Castilla-La Mancha

At the same time that our students were examined in the ordinary call of the first semester

LanzaDigital published the pioneering reportage about how the ESI was one of the first faculties in Spain and the world to connect to the Internet

We installed a Ping pong table in the inner courtyard of the School, which has been used frequently throughout the course.

February 2022

Coral Calero was interviewed on the program La Ventana, of the SER chain, to talk about software sustainability.

Change of Classroom decoration of free use with motivating phrases chosen by the students

The visits of IES students to the ESI continued, exceeding the figure of 200 visitors

Scientific Women, with the participation of students and teachers of the ESI

On February 11 we joined the international day of women and girls in science

The research groups continued to advance in the projects in which they participate. An example is the ARCO group in the European project SHAPES

The cycle of conferences continued, this time on cybersecurity and Professor Carmen Lacave visited CEIP Luis Solana de Méntrida in the activity "interview of a scientist in the classroom"

Started the solidarity project ResiCLA and HELP led by fourth-year students in the Electronic Commerce subject, and Professor José Jesús Castro

In addition to the ping-pong table, a large chess

March 2022

Conference on mobile telephony and consulting

The School launches a new website with a positive impact on the number of visits

On Sunday, March 13, the Open Doors Day was held, where welcomed the families of prospective students Computer Engineering

Boots the SmartESI project

We begin to publish on the School's website opinion articles, with a high degree of acceptance, impact and attraction of visitors.

Visited us Grace Sanchez Vizcaino to talk about the functions, challenges that a CIO assumes.

The programming workshop was launched with minecraft educational for ESO and Baccalaureate students

The giant chess set installed in the inner courtyard of the School was used in programming classes to learn the technique of backtracking

April 2022

period was opened Master's pre-registration

It was celebrated on annual futsal league final

Students and former students began to collaborate in the publication of opinion articles:

Conference on Artificial Intelligence by Enrique Herrera Viedma, e-sports Finals and solidarity flea market in the hall of the ESI, within the program of activities of the ResiCLA and AYUDA project

The Minecraft Educational workshop began in the laboratories of the School

Professor Ramón Hervás, new university professor

Second session of the programming workshop with Minecraft Educativo and closing

May 2022

Former professor Mercedes Fernández, from the Higher School of Informatics and professor Julio Alberto López Gómez take mathematics to the Saharawi camps. Mercedes tells us about the experience in an opinion article

Francisco Pascual Romero Chicharro, coordinator of the U. Master in Computer Engineering presents us in depth the subjects of the Master

Completion of the cycle of conferences, with Angel Seville of the Indra company

We visited the VI Fair of the Professions, at the IES Azuer de Manzanares

Professor Carlos González, new professor university

The company Furius Koalas, of which members of the Escuela Superior de Informática are part, recognized as “Young Company of the Year”

start the program professional mentor

and the phase of project proposals began in the initiative of participatory democracy, in which all members of the ESI community decide part of the destination of the annual budget

Opinion articles continue to have an impact and in 3 months they exceed 5.000 readings

We celebrate in Ciudad Real the final phase of the XV Informatics Olympiad of the region

e-sports season ends

Ubotica, company in which ESI professors, graduates and students work obtains financing of 4 million euros for its objective of providing decision-making capacity to satellites in orbit

The Arco group presents the SHAPES European project in mineco

kicks off XVI Call FORTE in which our students develop their internships and final projects in companies in the computer science sector

The MAMI research group obtains funding from the Government of Castilla-La Mancha for the design and development of affective robots

2022 June

The opinion pieceWe're running out of girls“, by Professor Carmen Lacave reaches 1000 readings

Publication of Reports that demonstrate the good state of health currently enjoyed by the profession of Computer Engineer

Teachers Coral Calero, Marcela Genus and Aurora Vizcaino appear in the national ranking of the CSIC of the most relevant researchers

The Alarcos and GSyA groups act as hosts of the II Coordination Conference of the AETHER project

The prizes are back Turing machine in its second edition

El ClusterFy european project, led by the ARCO group, holds its last meeting

The project ResiCLA and AYUDA reach their goal and exceed 1.000 euros in profit

Community ESI voted and decided between the proposals of the participatory democracy initiative

science on the street; the ESI participated in the activity organized by the Casa de la Ciencia de Ciudad Real and brought Computing closer to the public

Three months after its publication, the Escuela Superior de Informática receives Wendy Hall Award to the best website in the category of School, Faculty, Department or Singular Center.

The ESI, through its research groups, obtains new funding in the call for Knowledge Generation Projects 2021

Professors Coral Calero and Marcela Genero are interviewed in the program today of the SER chain

And we celebrate diversity in our School

Professor Juan Carlos López López was Appointed Vice Dean and Vice President of the Official College and the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineersrespectively

Professor José Ángel Olivas received the Distinction of Professor Honoris Causa from the National University of La Plata

July 2022

Briefings on intensifications and optional subjects

Launch of new scholarships for the next course

Coral Calero participates in a round table of the Digital IS 2022

The period opens registration for the 2022-2023 academic year

Professor José Antonio Cruz Lemus is appointed national coordinator of JENUI

José Antonio Cruz Lemus, professor at the Escuela Superior de Informática de Ciudad Real, together with other participants of jenui 2022

On July 19, the ESI brought together and honored all its directors throughout its 32-year history

and, finally, the 2021-2022 academic year concluded with the defense of the End-of-Study Projects in the July call (See Works and Photo Gallery)

ESI student defending his TFG
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