At an official ceremony held on 07.02.2023 at Sofia Event Space 2020, Huawei Technologies Bulgaria honored students and PhD students from all over the country. The young people are finalists of the Huawei ICT Talents Training Seeds for the Future scholarship programme and were selected by a specially formed jury based on the short videos they submitted on topics related to new information and communication technologies (ICT). Among the official guests of the event was the Vice President of BAS, Corr. Mem. Evdokia Pasheva, who delivered a welcoming speech. Five PhD students from BAS were honored: Zhan Zhelev, Plamen Petkov, Iskren Ivanov, Vesela Georgieva and Miroslav Marinov. The awards were presented by Corr. Mem. Margenov, Director of IICT-BAS and member of the jury. In [...]

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, awarded a student team with a scholarship after the name of Professor Dan Shechtman which is awarded to students from 134 "Dimcho Debelyanov" High School. The ceremony was held on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the school. The scholarship in the category Natural Sciences, high school stage, has a total value of BGN 1,000 and was awarded to a student team that participates in the STEM lesson "Forest and Light". In April 2022, the Center of Competence "QUASAR" at the Institute of Robotics of BAS established an annual scholarship named after Professor Dan Shechtman for students of 134 "Dimcho Debelyanov" high school. The award is given to students and student teams [...]

On the occasion of a publication on the Club “Z” website https://clubz.bg/129099, which claims that John Vincent Atanasoff's contribution to the basic principles of electronic digital computation is the fruit of unjustified Bulgarian ambitions, academicians from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are recalling his achievements. The principles underlying modern computers are the essence of John Atanasoff's significant discovery. More precisely:           Using the binary number system. Numbers are represented only by 0 and 1;           Using electronic circuits to represent numerical information (0 or 1);           Introduction of regenerative (recoverable) memory;           Performing immediate logical operations. In 1939, John Atanasoff demonstrated a working prototype of his digital electronic computer. During the period 1939-1942, [...]