The Cradle of the Cognitive Infocommunications

Information and communication technologies (ICT) and cognitive sciences (CS) are both pursued at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). The Department of the Telecommunications and Media Informatics (TMIT) is focusing on ICT and its related applications and convergence issues. After deploying the convergence of the telecommunications, information and media technologies based on the evolution and common use of the digital technology, the widening convergence process embraced CS, and resulted in the establishment of cognitive infocommunications as a new scientific discipline at the end of the last decade. Contents involved in the convergence process are expanded, the information value chains are merged and also expanded, and the convergent ICT applications are completed by cognitive features.