FIT BUT

13.10.2020 Government regulations allow presence at examinations and close canteens

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:32:00 GMT

The new regulation of the Government of the Czech Republic, with effect from 14th October 2020, allows the personal presence of university students at examinations, with a maximum of 10 people during examinations. Also some BUT canteens cannot be opened due to a government regulation from 14th October 2020. The canteen window in the Pod Palackého vrchem complex will remain in operation, and canteens of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT will be available only for employees.

The government's measures newly prohibits the accommodation of students from the Czech Republic on university dormitories, however, it is possible to consider the specific situation of the student. However, the restriction does not apply to foreign students with permanent residence outside the Czech Republic.

8.10.2020 The government closes universities for students for two weeks

Fri, 09 Oct 2020 11:46:48 GMT

With regard to the epidemiological situation getting worse, the Government of the Czech Republic accepted a resolution restricting the operation of universities with effect from 12th October 2020 to 25th October 2020 by prohibiting the personal participation of students in classes and also participants in lifelong learning courses. This cancels the existing exception of laboratory, artistic or experimental work (in small groups), individual visits to libraries and study rooms, individual consultations, etc. Only medical students have an exception (general medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and other medical study programs). This regulation applies to the whole country.

22.9.2020 Regional Hygiene Station prohibits the personal participation of students in classes starting from tomorrow

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:46:57 GMT

With effect from September 23, 2020, the Regional Hygiene Station of the South Moravian Region prohibits the personal presence of students in classes. This measure applies to all universities in Brno, including the Brno University of Technology. Already on Friday, the BUT informed that the maximum of possible subjects will be taught online, the regional hygienists then set the following exceptions for the day-time participation of students:

Individual visits to libraries and study rooms;
Individual consultations;
Examining max. 10 people present;
Laboratory, experimental or artistic work up to 15 people present;
Clinical and practical teaching and practice.

This measure of RHS SMR is valid until further notice, similar measures have been approved in other regions of the Czech Republic. BUT faculties and departments already determine which of the trainings, seminars and laboratories must be kept in a day-time form and will be covered by the above-mentioned limit numbers.

18.9.2020 BUT will start with day-time teaching, from the second week it will move as much as possible to online teaching

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:36:44 GMT

Due to the worsening situation regarding the spread of coronavirus, the BUT management decided to make changes in the organization of teaching. In an effort to protect the health of students and employees of the Brno University of Technology, therefore, part of the teaching will gradually move to the online courses.

From the second week onwards, which starts on September 28, the maximum of teaching will be moved online. This applies especially to large lectures, which can be adjusted to this form without major problems. BUT faculties and departments will decide which of the training, seminars and laboratories must be kept in a day-time form, and these will take place in compliance with strict hygienic rules.

At the same time, please observe all points arising from the previous Rector's Regulation. We also draw attention to the obligation to wear masks during classes.

Decision no. 7/2020 on the Organization of Teaching in the Winter Semester of the Academic Year 2020/2021 at BUT

14.9.2020 Letter to students with information for the new semester

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:38:47 GMT

Dear students,
the beginning of the academic year is approaching and to this day we have promised you details about the form of study in the winter semester of the academic year 2020/2021, so we do so. It must be said that BUT will always follow the regulations or measures of the Ministry of Health or the Ministry of Education. Therefore, if any new regulations from these institutions arrive in the coming days, we will inform you about them and these will always be strictly observed at BUT. We will also take into account the epidemiological situation in the Brno-City district, so that in the event of a worsening of the situation, changes in teaching may also occur. Unfortunately, this needs to be taken into account in this academic year. Below you will find a brief overview of the measures at BUT, but always follow the current information on the website of your faculty or department where you are studying, or in your information system.

Persons who have symptoms of viral disease (e.g. fever, cough, shortness of breath, sudden loss of taste and smell, etc.) are still prohibited to enter the BUT buildings. And it does not concern only covid-19, but any bad cold or other infectious diseases.
As in the spring months, students are required to electronically confirm a declaration on honour in the information system that they do not have these symptoms on a daily basis before entering the BUT buildings.
If a student has any symptoms and is therefore unable to attend classes, he/she must immediately apologize from the classes (the specific form of apology is determined by the individual faculties and departments).
If you have been directly imposed a quarantine or isolation in connection with covid-19, inform the study department of your faculty or department immediately so that we can take appropriate measures.
If your health condition places you in the so-called risk group, inform the study department of your faculty or department in the first week of the academic year and provide the appropriate doctor's certificate so that the necessary measures can be taken in time.
If a situation arises that prevents the participation of a larger number of students while teaching (quarantine, extraordinary measures of the Ministry, teaching is led by an employee included in the so-called risk group, etc.), teaching can be adequately adjusted or transferred to a distance form. This is always decided by the management of the faculty or the given department. Details can be found in the information system or on the website of your faculty or department.
In common areas, always keep a distance of at least 2 meters from other people.
When entering the BUT buildings and after using the toilets, please use the hand disinfection available here. Remember the obligation to wear a mask in all indoor areas. In the teaching itself, follow the teachers' instructions regarding other hygienic measures.
If you need to solve something in the study department, use telephone and e-mail communication primarily. E.g. Confirmation of study can be easily obtained electronically in the BUT IS. A personal visit is possible only after a prior telephone appointment.
If you are accommodated in the BUT halls of residence and quarantine or isolation has been imposed on you, report it immediately to the email address karantena@vutbr.cz. It is then forbidden to visit quarantined persons. Individual receptions then record all visits to BUT halls of residence. If you are coming from a country where there is a reporting obligation to RHS SMR, you must prove that you have fulfilled this obligation at the halls of residence reception. Masks are still mandatory in the Czech Republic in all indoor areas, i.e. also in halls of residence and canteens (except during the consumption of food). Please disinfect your hands when entering catering facilities.

As is clear from this letter, this year's academic year will probably not be completely standard, however, our ambition is to keep full-time teaching as much as possible and allow you to successfully complete the beginning academic year. We believe that you understand and will follow the extraordinary measures, with regard to the health of yourself and your classmates and teachers. Our joint efforts depend on the personal responsibility of each of us. I firmly believe that you are aware of the seriousness of the situation. Our goal is definitely not to restrict you more than necessary. But these measures are needed so that we can manage everything together. Thank you.

Petr Štěpánek
Rector of BUT

24.4.2020 Release of measures against the spread of coronavirus

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:34:57 GMT

Individual consultations, practical training and practise at the university or university libraries are allowed since April 27 according to new government resolution. This applies to students of all grades, in groups of a maximum of five people. The personal presence of students in other forms of teaching and examinations is still prohibited.

The resolution allows access to the faculty to students of all grades under the same conditions as it was allowed to the final years students from Monday: Students can enter the faculty or other BUT building only if they have not a quarantine measure ordered at the given time, they will have a valid affidavit (in BUT IS) that they do not show signs of viral infectious diseases, will disinfect their hands at the entrance and will wear respiratory protective equipment all the time. For further information plese click HERE.

However, allowing individual study activities for students does not mean opening the faculty to all students. Students will be allowed a personal presence only after prior agreement with the teacher, the library, or after registering for the presence exam. See HERE.

At FIT, an individual consultations with teachers under the age of 45 are hereby permitted from 27 April 2020, by prior (e-mail or telephone) agreement. A library is also available for all students, in the same mode as for the students in the last year of study. We are also currently working intensively on the possibility of obtaining a confirmation of study electronically.

24.4.2020 Information for applicants: The results of the school-leaving examinations for preferential admission can be submitted in June

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:37:07 GMT

Applicants can now submit their results of the school-leaving examinations in mathematics or from the Matematika + exam, which can be used to enable preferential admission at FIT, later - 14 days before the enrolment deadlines, ie by 5 or 24 June. By this deadline, the study department must receive an application for preferential admission either in an e-application or by post. The faculty changed the date due to the postponement of school-leaving examinations at secondary schools.

The deadline for submitting an application for applicants who have met other conditions for preferential admission (eg in the IQ test) is 31 May. Enrolments will be realized in distance mode on June 19 or July 8 (for further information please click HERE).

17.4.2020 Information for applicants: SCIO tests are postponed, enrolments will be in distance mode

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:35:20 GMT

SCIO postpones the dates of national comparative exams (the date from 1 May is postponed to 13 June, from 23 May to 27 June and from 13 June to 11 July). These dates are final and will not change. The tests will take place in the Czech Republic in person, in Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine or other countries online (if the situation in the Czech Republic does not allow it, they will be also online at the given date). In addition, SCIO has organized an extraordinary exam date at 30 May, which will be online for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. FIT will accept the results of all dates. Applicants can choose the date of the exam paid by the faculty - it can be either 13 or 27 June.

Enrolments will be organized in distance mode within the set deadlines. Accepted applicants will receive a registration form from the faculty by post, which they will send back together with a certified copy of the graduation certificate. The study department will then enrol them for study in the next following enrolment date. It is therefore not necessary to apologize if you are unable to attend a certain enrolment deadline. However, the letter must be delivered by the deadline of enrolment. We would like to appeal to applicants not to postpone this due to possible problems with delivery by post or inconsistencies with documents.

Confirmation of study will be sent by the faculty to newly enrolled students by post immediately after the enrolment.

UPDATE: The results of the school-leaving examinations for preferential admission can be submitted in June

16.4.2020 The exam period is postponed, the final papers to be submitted two weeks later

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:24:54 GMT

The academic year schedule is changing. Given the development of the the current situation, the FIT management has excluded "Option 1" from the plans of the examination period and state final examinations. Therefore, the examination period is postponed by at least three weeks for all students and will not start before 25 May 2020. "The situation is constantly changing, so far we are counting on 'Option 2'. The examination period is formally extended to 30 September. That does not mean the exams will run throughout this period, but we have more room to set dates for exams, state final examinations and graduations according to previously published plans. By the end of April we will provide further information," said Jaroslav Dytrych, Vice-Dean for Education in the Bachelor Study Program.

The deadlines for electronic submission of theses are also changing. The faculty management has set final deadlines, which are on May 28 for bachelor thesis and June 3 for master thesis.

The faculty also prepares measures for the operation of the study department or library in the emergency mode when the relevant measures are released by BUT.

24.3.2020 BUT contact teaching will be cancelled until at least April 17, 2020

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:34:13 GMT

BUT contact teaching will be cancelled until at least April 17, 2020. This applies to all BUT faculties and departments as well as to individual tuition in laboratories or studios. Further information on distance learning, obtaining credits, examinations, final theses and exams, study fees or halls of residence can be found HERE.

23.3.2020 BUT and Charles University belong to the prestigious network of European laboratories for AI

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:07:51 GMT

Two Czech laboratories working in automatic speech and language processing have achieved significant international success. The results of the European program supporting the creation of artificial intelligence centers were announced in March, and the institutions involved in the HumanE-AI-Net project also include the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and the Faculty of Information Technology, BUT. The HumanE-AI-Net project brings together leading European research centers, universities and industrial enterprises into a network of centers of excellence that goes beyond the narrow definition of artificial intelligence (hereinafter referred to as "AI") and combines leading global AI laboratories with key players in related areas such as human-computer interaction science, cognitive science, social science, or the science of complexity. This is linked to a European strategy that focuses on human-centered artificial intelligence. For more project information see HERE.

13.3.2020 Call for Erasmus+ students to return home

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:20:19 GMT

Dear students,

In view of the declaration of the state of emergency as of March 12, 2020 and based on today's (March 13, 2020) decree of the BUT Crisis Staff, we are hereby urging you to return immediately from abroad back home. This applies to all BUT students and staff who are currently abroad.

All Erasmus+ participants will be able to reimburse travel expenses or other extraordinary related costs that will need to be supported by documents, so please keep them. All prematurely terminated mobility under Erasmus+ will be recognised as force majeure. We will deal with administrative matters related to early termination of study stays and internships after your return to the Czech Republic. In the case of difficulties or unprovisable but expedient expenses, you will be reimbursed to the FIT in agreement with the coordinator.

If you continue your study abroad, there is a high risk that the local university will also be closed over time and that the lessons will take place on-line. Based on the information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a later return may be impossible due to stopped cross-border traffic. More on the website of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of the Interior.

If you have not already done so, or if your decision has changed, please tell us immediately your decision - to return or continue to stay abroad. If you decide to return, contact the study advisor. FIT will help you to solve your study complications.

We also remind you of the mandatory quarantine, which applies to all who return from high-risk countries from 13 March. The list of risk countries may change, so check the Ministry of Health website. Carefully read and follow instructions on Information to ensure teaching at university.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in managing this situation
Víťa Beran and Michaela Studená

12.3.2020 BUT emergency measures due to the spread of coronavirus

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:41:38 GMT

Dear students,

Based on today's emergency measures of BUT due to the spread of coronavirus https://www.vutbr.cz/en/coronavirus, the personal presence of students at the Faculty of Information Technology in connection with their studies is prohibited until at least 12 April 2020 (including personal consultations). You will receive updated instructions on studying in your courses early next week. Please continue to pay attention to your studies, as it is possible that contact teaching will begin directly with the examination period. Study administration will be handled exclusively electronically or by mail.

We recommend to all students who live at the dormitory to leave the dormitory if possible. In addition, the residents are obliged to contact the official designated sites and management of KaM in the event of symptoms of the disease. Accommodated students are also obliged to observe sanitary and safety measures and minimize their stay in the common areas.

The aim of BUT is to enable, even in the emergency mode, regular completion of studies for final year students and fulfillment of all study obligations for other students.

The library and student club U Kachničky are closed. The study department will be closed for personal contact tomorrow. The FIT canteen will be closed from Monday 16 March 2020.

BUT shall provide further instructions by 25 March 2020 latest.

The primary channel that teachers will use for communication with you is your student email at FIT.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation

Jaroslav Dytrych, Richard Růžička and Pavel Zemčík

12.3.2020 BUT emergency measures for the current situation

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 17:42:00 GMT

The personal presence of students in the buildings of BUT faculties and institutes in connection with their studies is currently prohibited until April 12, 2020. The study administration will be handled exclusively by e-mail or post.

Present and newly arriving foreign students will be notified of the emergency situation, the measures taken and will be advised to return home. All students are advised to leave the student dormitory as soon as possible. Until then, students are obliged to observe sanitary and safety measures and minimize their stay in the common accommodation. At the same time, short-term accommodation of people, including students, is also prohibited. Accommodated students will also be notified of the obligation to contact the official designated places and management of the Halls of Residence and University canteen in case of symptoms.

Find more information HERE.

10.3.2020 Safety measure of the Ministry of Health - situation at FIT

Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:46:11 GMT

Dear students,

due to today's emergency measures of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, we have been forced to cancel all the lectures, seminars, laboratory classes and consultations. These measures are valid from March 11, 2020 until further notice.

In the next few hours the guarantors or teachers will let you know about the planned measures for specific subjects, or how the lectures and seminars will be replaced in the next seven days (up to and including March 17). We expect that the measures will last at least for this period.

At the beginning of the next week you will learn more about the planned course of the semester.

There is no need to worry, it is certainly a priority for us to make everything go smoothly.

Please do not go to school unless absolutely necessary.

CVT (Computer Centre), school libraries and sports facilities will be closed from tomorrow. The student club U Kachničky will also be closed. The FIT canteen and the FIT Study Department will be operating.

All the public events at the faculty are canceled or postponed indefinitely during this period.

Students who are also employees of the faculty can attend the faculty due to their work duties if necessary. Postgraduate students may attend the faculty for the reason of replacing their full-time classes (for example, if there are webinars instead of exercises, they may organize them from the faculty premises) if necessary.

If you have any questions, please contact your teachers, study advisors or vice-deans, but please use the means of mass communication first (courses forums, Facebook groups, Discord...) rather than individual questions.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in managing this situation

Jaroslav Dytrych, Richard Růžička and Pavel Zemčík

10.3.2020 BUT canceled full-time lessons from 11 March until further notice

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:58:21 GMT

Brno University of Technology in response to an emergency measure of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic has canceled full-time teaching since 11 March 2020, until further notice. More information HERE, we will update.

6.3.2020 Maintenance of the library fund in FIT library

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 08:56:03 GMT

Maintenance of the library is being performed on every first Friday of the month. Please note the following dates, when the library will be closed.

7. 2., 6. 3., 3. 4., 1. 5., 5. 6., 3. 7., 7. 8., 4. 9., 2. 10., 6. 11., 4. 12.

Thank you for understanding.

4.3.2020 International Summer School in IT at FIT for the second time

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:44:47 GMT

In the middle of July, the second annual BISSIT (Brno International Summer School in Information Technology) will take place at the Faculty of Information Technology. It will offer courses in interactive applications, machine learning and robot programming to people from around the world. From July 13 to 29, participants will receive theoretical and practical seminars, as well as visits to technology companies or informal trips to interesting places. More information HERE.

2.3.2020 Recommendation of the Rector of BUT due to the spread of coronavirus

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 09:56:17 GMT

Recommendation of the Rector of BUT due to the spread of coronavirus

Students arriving from the coronavirus area will register obstacles to studies in FIT IS and will be excused from presence activities for 2 weeks of recommended quarantine. They will discuss the missed activities directly with individual teachers.

12.2.2020 An algorithm that knows what film or book you would enjoy. A FIT student received a grant to design it

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:24:48 GMT

Altogether eight projects received an award in the second round of the Soutěž podnikatelských nápadů (Business Ideas Competition) launched by the South Moravian Innovation Centre last autumn. Petr Buchal, a student of FIT, was one of the successful presenters. He entered the competition with his project Discover Yourself which is based on a specific algorithm. It is designed to help people choose a book, a film, or a video game they will enjoy based on their choice of various preselected criteria. "I'm sure you know that feeling when you have just finished reading a book you liked and thought to yourself that you wouldn't mind reading a similar one. But you didn't really know where and how to look for it. Petr came up with an algorithm that uses data about what you usually read, watch, listen to and play and proposes a tailored solution," describes Vojtěch Krmíček from South Moravian Innovation Centre who specialises in development of entrepreneurial creativity at schools. The young programmer estimates that the development of the application that uses the principles of machine learning will take about six months. The South Moravian Innovation Centre distributed a total of 430,000 Czech crowns among successful students to help them develop their businesses.

10.2.2020 FIT ranked in the TOP 3 in Týden magazine’s comparison of universities

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:25:21 GMT

In the comparison of universities published by Týden magazine, Faculty of Information Technology ranked third (behind Faculty of Chemical Technology of UCT Prague and Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of CTU) in the category Technical sciences.

The comparison considered criteria such as interest in studies, quality of teaching and scientific personnel and SIR points that the faculty receives for specialised publications, articles, major grants and other scientific activities. "By publishing our own comparison, we do not mean to replace the national regulatory authorities. However, we would like to make the choice of university easier. Besides, our current students will certainly appreciate the information on the quality of their university. By publishing the comparisons of individual categories we would also like to appreciate universities that we consider true centres of education as we imagine the higher education institutions should be," says Daniel Koppl, Executive Director of Empresa Media, the publisher of TÝDEN magazine.

20.12.2019 Happy New Year 2020

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:26:17 GMT

Dear students, employees, graduates and friends of FIT,

This year - the year of its 120th anniversary - BUT received an institutional accreditation as the first technical university in the Czech Republic. It helped us innovate and obtain accreditation for the Bachelor's programme, as well as the Master's programme within which we launched 17 new specialisations. Furthermore, we introduced a Master's programme taught in English and accepted slightly more students in both the Bachelor's and Master's studies. It was a good year, in many other aspects too. In the following year, we would like to focus primarily on the quality of education, research and development and international co-operation, as well as the stability of conditions required for smooth operation of the faculty.

I would like to thank all those who have put their efforts to the work and studies at the faculty and wish you stability and happiness in the next year and merry and peaceful Christmas.

Pavel Zemčík, Dean of FIT BUT

18.12.2019 DevConf returns to FIT. It will welcome more than 300 speakers from around the world in January

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:28:02 GMT

DevConf 2020 - the biggest event for developers, administrators, and users of Linux and open source in Central Europe - is once again going to take place in co-operation with the Faculty of Information Technology at the FIT campus. Over 1500 participants and 300 speakers from all over the word are expected to participate in the 12th year of the conference which will take place from 24 to 26 January. This year, the conference will tackle a variety of topics ranging from the development of cloud applications to machine learning, artificial intelligence and infrastructure administration tools. Workshops on application development and other advanced topics in the area of source development will also be available. Find the full agenda of the conference HERE. A record of the main presentations will be published after the event.

10.12.2019 Pavel Zemčík to keep the post of the Dean of FIT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:29:04 GMT

The Faculty of Information Technology will continue to be led by its current Dean Pavel Zemčík. It was decided on Tuesday by the members of the Academic Senate of FIT who elected him in a secret ballot by ten out of eleven votes. Pavel Zemčík, who was the only candidate in the election, served as the Dean of the FIT for the past four years.

"FIT is now a renowned, well-equipped and high-quality faculty. But the world is always moving forward. We must work intensively on the development of the faculty rather than only maintain its current condition. The task of the new management is likely to be different from the task of the current one as it will have to work in an environment that can change very quickly, especially when it comes to evaluation and financing of education," considers Pavel Zemčík.

In his upcoming term of office 2020-2024, he plans to focus primarily on supporting the improvement of quality of research and education and promotion of sound economic conditions of the faculty's operation.

4.12.2019 SC@FIT research group attending the best conference of supercomputing technologies

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:29:53 GMT

More than 13,000 participants attended SC'19 - the top supercomputing technologies conference in Denver, USA. FIT would not miss this and so the SC@FIT research group attended the event and presented three research posters: one on adaptation and optimisation of distributed ultrasound simulations for the Nvidia DGX-2 server - the most powerful GPU-based machine in Central and Eastern Europe; one presenting the results of a PhD thesis on acceleration of ultrasound simulations using heterogeneous architectures; and one on automated planning, execution and monitoring of large-scale simulation workflow systems consisting of hundreds of individual tasks of various levels of computational complexity.

3.12.2019 High school students tried what it is like to study at the faculty for three days

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:30:34 GMT

Last week, about 20 students from all corners of the Czech Republic had the chance to try what it feels like to study at the Faculty of Information Technology thanks to the MiniErasmus programme. This programme makes it possible for high school students to experience the life of college students for three days. At FIT, the participants had the opportunity to attend a practical seminar led by Viktor Konupčík, a FIT student, several lectures for first- and second-year students and even one class from the Master's programme, to look around the campus, chat with the faculty students and to enjoy a music evening at U Kachničky.

2.12.2019 FIT organizes clothes collection. Series of lectures and a library box are also in the making

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:31:09 GMT

Clothing you do not want to wear anymore but that can still be used will be collected from this Tuesday at FIT in room Q222. The clothes will be collected as a part of the Giving Tuesday initiative until 10 December. "We donate the clothes to people in need. We co-operate with the day-care centre of Local Charity in Žďár nad Sázavou that takes care of persons with mental and multiple disabilities," said Radka Báčová from the FIT's Project Department.

The department is planning to organise other events in the future, such as grant-funded consultations for students and researchers, series of lectures, internships for student or installation of a library box. "We welcome all those who have their own ideas on how to contribute to the social responsibility of Czech research, or would like to participate in it and do something for themselves, for their university and society," Radka Báčová added. Those interested in co-operation can contact her by e-mail at bacova@fit.vutbr.cz.

1.12.2019 FIT presented its work on Interpol biometrics

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:31:33 GMT

Methods of forensic work with fingerprints and face images created by the STRaDe research group in co-operation with the police of the South Moravian Region caught the attention of INTERPOL. Martin Drahanský, who is leading the group focusing on research and development of security technologies at FIT, presented these methods at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon. "Practical examples were based mainly on the work of Ondřej Kanich and Tomáš Goldmann. Both presentations had a wonderful response from the audience and we managed to establish contacts with a number of foreign police departments and forensic laboratories," said Martin Drahanský.

27.11.2019 8 of BUT: FIT and FA students wrote the best Bachelor’s diploma theses

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:32:07 GMT

The presentation contest 8 of BUT has found its two winners. A shared first place was awarded by the jury to Magdaléna Buzová, a student of the Faculty of Architecture, and to Son Hai Nguyen, a student of the Faculty of Information Technology. The FIT student managed to explain the intriguing topic of his thesis "Insertion of 2D Graphics into a Scene Captured by a Stationary Camera" to general public through an attractive presentation sparkled up by his charm and humour. His work attracted some attention earlier this year at the student conference Excel@FIT where he received praise from the jury, partners and the public.

8 of BUT is a presentation competition of the best Bachelor's theses wrote by the students of all faculties of BUT in the last academic year. The theses and their authors are nominated by the management of individual faculties.

26.11.2019 Lukáš Holík and Petr Janků awarded for the best paper

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:33:23 GMT

An article titled "Chain-Free String Constraints" and its authors Lukáš Holík and Petr Janků from the VeriFIT research group won a prestigious Best Paper Award at the ATVA'2019 conference in Taipei. Their contribution introduces an algorithm for the solution of the satisfiability problem for string constraints that can be used, for example, to verify programmes manipulating the strings, such as web applications, or to verify the absence of certain kinds of security vulnerabilities, such as the Cross Site Scripting.

The full article can be found HERE.

25.11.2019 Vojtěch Mrázek awarded the Česká hlava award for research of formal errors in integrated circuits

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:36:15 GMT

Vojtěch Mrázek of FIT received the most prestigious Czech award for science and research, the Česká hlava award. He received the Doctorandus award for technical sciences for his research on formal errors in integrated circuits at the gala evening held this Sunday. You can watch the record of the event on the Czech Television website. More information about Vojtěch Mrázek and his research is available HERE.

The Česká hlava awards have been granted since 2002 and are considered the most prestigious award for the Czech authors of discoveries, patents and new technologies.

18.11.2019 Rector awarded prizes to great personages of BUT. The gold medal was presented to Professor Dvořák

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:37:11 GMT

At the Academic Assembly on Thursday, 14 November, the Rector Petr Štěpánek awarded prizes to selected personages of Brno University of Technology. The ceremony took place on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of BUT, the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and the 80th anniversary of the closure of Czech universities during the Protectorate. He also awarded prizes to a number of FIT personages.

Professor Václav Dvořák received a gold medal for his contribution to the development of computer technology and international co-operation at FIT. Professors Lukáš Sekanina and Tomáš Vojnar received silver medals for their work in the areas of teaching, research and development. A commemorative medal was awarded to Associate Professor Vladimír Drábek and to Torsten Meisner, who co-operates with the faculty.

The Rector also presented awards to the winners of the student poll for the best teacher. The students of FIT have chosen Tomáš Milet in the Bachelor's programmes category and Milan Češka Jr. in the follow-up Master's studies category.

14.11.2019 Ralph Ford received an honorary doctorate of BUT. He has been co-operating with FIT for over 20 years

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:38:55 GMT

Ralph Ford of Penn State Behrend College received an honorary degree of doctor honoris causa at BUT. A nomination for the award of the doctorate was submitted by the Faculty of Information Technology, which has been closely co-operating with Ford for twenty years. Ralph Ford is the author of over 40 publications, the Dean of the Penn State Behrand College and a renowned scientist. He received the honorary degree during the ceremonial meeting of the Scientific Board of BUT. Read more about the topic in the article.

The honorary degree of doctor honoris causa is awarded at BUT to both Czech and foreign personalities who have substantially contributed to the development in an area that stands in the focus of the university's long-term efforts. The award of the honorary doctorate is based on the decision of the Scientific Board of BUT. Together with Ralph Ford, it was awarded also to Professor Ulrike Diebold of TU Wien.

13.11.2019 Dean of the FIT presented Merit Medals for the contributions to the development of the faculty

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:40:44 GMT

At the invitation of the Faculty of Information Technology, more than twenty guests from abroad attended the celebrations of the 120th anniversary of BUT. Representatives of universities from Europe, the USA, Africa and China as well as important industrial partners also attended today's Merit Medals award ceremony, where the Dean Pavel Zemčík awarded prizes to 26 personages of FIT who contributed greatly to the development of the faculty. Gold medals were awarded to Petr Hanáček, Zdeněk Kotásek, Jan Maxmilián Honzík and Jiří Kunovský (in memoriam).

Gold medals: doc. Dr. Ing. Petr Hanáček, prof. Ing. Jan Maxmilián Honzík, CSc., doc. Ing. Zdeněk Kotásek, CSc., doc. Ing. Jiří Kunovský CSc.

Silver medals: Ing. Vítězslav Beran, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Lukáš Burget, Ph.D., prof. Ing. Adam Herout, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Jiří Jaroš, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Jan Kořenek, Ph.D., Ing. Pavel Mikula, doc. Mgr. Adam Rogalewicz, Ph.D, doc. Ing. Zdeněk Vašíček, Ph.D.

Bronze medals: Ing. Michal Bidlo, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Martin Čadík, Ph.D., Sánchez Mireia Diez, M.Sc., Ph.D., Ing. Marie Gaďorková, Mgr. Lukáš Holík, Ph.D., Zdeněk Juříček, Ing. Martin Karafiát, Ph.D., Ing. Lukáš Kekely, Ph.D., Ing. Tomáš Martínek, Ph.D., Ing. Pavel Matějka, Ph.D., Ing. Vojtěch Mrázek, Ph.D., Sylva Otáhalová, Mgr. Jana Skokanová, Ing. Aleš Smrčka, Ph.D.

11.11.2019 The Dean of FIT to Award Medals of Merit this Wednesday

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:25:42 GMT

Dean Pavel Zemčík will award the FIT personalitites who have contributed to the development of the faculty this Wednesday. They will receive the FIT medals at a ceremony which will take place from 16:15 in the "D" auditorium with the following program:

16:15-16:25 welcome drink
16:30-17:00 medal awarding ceremony
17:00-18:00 raut

All FIT staff and PhD students are warmly welcome.

8.11.2019 An award-winning application of a FIT graduate saves eyesight

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:42:11 GMT

On Thursday, 7 November, an award ceremony of Atlas Copco and Edwards Awards took place at Atlas Copco's Sky Club. It was a great success for students of BUT. The Edwards Award rewards theses focusing on technical topics. This year, a total of 37 diploma theses applied for the recognition. Pavel Hřebíček, a FIT BUT graduate, whose Eye Check application caught some attention earlier this year at the Excel@FIT conference, won the second place. The application enables detection of an eye disease leukocoria. "Leukocoria is the whiteness of the pupil that may appear in a photograph taken with a flash. Early detection of this symptom can save the patient's eyesight," explained Pavel Hřebíček, adding that his application works with a 98% accuracy. Learn more about the mobile app detecting leukocoria from a photo of a patient's face on the website of Eye Check.

5.11.2019 The European Institute of Innovation and Technology held a presentation acquainting students with the Design Thinking method

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:43:34 GMT

How to develop a business idea by making a game or playful simulation out of it? Our students had the opportunity to find out under the supervision of international experts from the area of business modelling at EIT Digital - within this interactive workshop, Márton Bélik, a lecturer from EIT Digital, helped the participants to create and develop their own ideas using the Design Thinking method. The workshop was held on Wednesday, November 27, as part of the Star(t)up@FIT program.

4.11.2019 Exhibition of insignia of Brno’s universities and faculties

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:44:30 GMT

Majestic gowns, sceptres and chains of the rectors and deans, as well as other symbols and documents of Brno-based universities were on display at an extraordinary weeklong exhibition of rector's and dean's insignia and archival materials. After nearly 20 years, six Brno universities and their faculties, including the Faculty of Information Technology, exhibited their academic "jewels". The event took place from 16 to 24 November 2019 in the premises of the Dietrichstein Palace (Moravian Museum) at Zelný trh square, Brno.

30.10.2019 OpenAlt conference at FIT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:45:05 GMT

As usual, the annual OpenAlt conference was held at the Faculty of Information Technology on the first weekend of November. The conference connects the world of open source and topics from software, hardware, data processing and computer security, as well as the topics of open data in public administration and in the private sector and open access to scientific information.

30.10.2019 Prestigious ERC CZ grant for Lukáš Holík and the VeriFIT group

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:45:32 GMT

How to make the automata technology more efficient so that the number of theoretically known application opportunities for finite-state machines can be realised in practice? The VeriFIT research group will look for new ways to achieve this goal as Lukáš Holík received a grant from the ERC CZ programme for the following five years. This national prestigious programme of support for research, experimental development and innovations provides funding for projects that were not supported at the European level due to insufficient funds within the European call. In the call, only seven projects were selected for the entire Czech Republic and the one selected for BUT is from the team at FIT. The project is concerned with research of technology for effective work with finite-state machines in applications such as verification and analysis of security of web applications and programmes handling data chains, programmes with indicator data structures, as well as in network operation inspection or in search for patterns.

23.10.2019 Git workshop

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:04:31 GMT

Today, the Git versioning system is the number 1 system for maintaining software projects. Come to try and to learn working with Git and join millions of developers who use Git in their every day work. The workshop will be held by engineers from Red Hat.

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of programming in C, own laptop with a suitable OS (Linux, OSX), basic knowledge of working in a text editor and in command line, account at github.com.

The workshop will be held on 30.10.2019 at 10:00 in the room Q304 and it will last until approx. 13:00. The workshop will be in Czech.
Registration: bit.ly/Git_FIT

22.10.2019 Martin Kišš received an award for the best scientific poster in Sydney

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:46:31 GMT

Martin Kišš of the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia won the award for the best poster at the 15th ICDAR conference in Sydney. ICDAR is the largest and most prestigious international assembly for scientists and experts engaged in document analysis and recognition. Martin Kišš participated in the conference with an article describing the creation of a B-MOD dataset, which he presented at the event using the poster for which he subsequently received the Best Poster Award. You can see the poster HERE.

18.10.2019 Following the modernisation of the AV technology in lecture halls and laboratories, the faculty is now fully digital

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:47:31 GMT

From the beginning of the semester, all lecture halls, laboratories and conference and seminar rooms at the FIT are equipped with a new audio-visual technology - projectors, screens, signal components and cabling. The faculty thus completed the second stage of modernisation of the technology and equipment in teaching premises.

The first stage of the modernisation took place last year, when almost all the AV technology in lecture halls was replaced. The modifications mostly concerned the lecture halls in building E, where the faculty also had the floors, teachers' desks and lighting replaced - the original lighting was replaced with more cost-effective LED lighting.

This year, the AV technology was also replaced in the laboratories, conference and seminar rooms. "The modernisation of AV technology included primarily digitalisation of signal transmission and transition to Full HD resolution or higher, both in terms of projection and recording of lectures. Signals are transmitted between the devices either via HDMI or HDBaseT technology using classic UTP cabling, which is cheap, easy to install and durable; moreover, it was possible to use the existing cabling at some places. Sound is sent between lecture halls and technical rooms via the computer network using the Dante protocol," explains Jana Skokanová from the FIT Computer Centre.

Further changes are planned for the next year, in particular in lecture hall D where floors and furniture will be repaired and lighting replaced, just like in the other lecture halls.

8.10.2019 FIT presented a robotic workplace of the future at the International Engineering Fair

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:47:57 GMT

A table on which a projector projects the user interface. A robot is attached on one side of the table and the worker sitting on the other side can control the robot using a touch layer on the table. That is one possible design of a robotic workplace of the future developed by researchers at FIT.

In October, they also presented the mobile version of the ARCOR system at the International Engineering Fair in Brno. You could see this presentation as part of the CzechTourism exhibition in pavilion Z, stand No. 39.

2.10.2019 Star(t)up@FIT: Programme to support student technology start-up companies

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:49:08 GMT

The Faculty of Information Technology launched a new Star(t)up@FIT programme intended for everyone who has an interesting idea, wants to achieve something significant or dreams of starting a technology company. This is a series of informal meetings of the owners of future technology companies that have the ambitions to change our world. The first of the series of meetings took place in the Creative Open Lab (R109) on Wednesday 2 October from 4 p.m. (the following meetings will take place every other week). The programme provided the opportunity to meet like-minded people, as well as people who had already achieved success, the chance to work and relax in the Creative Open Lab, get professional and business consultations and receive help with moving one's project forward.

30.9.2019 Science Night attracted almost 500 visitors to FIT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:49:31 GMT

A rescue robot, quadcopter, virtual reality and interesting lectures attracted almost five hundred visitors to Friday's Science Night at FIT. Amongst other things, the visitors had the opportunity to see the robotic workplace of the future, try solving simple mathematical logic tasks, programme a LEGO-robot, visit Nepal via virtual reality or see in the museum the development of computer memories from the first computers to the present time. Libor Polčák and Jiří Jaroš gave lectures where the visitors could learn about security aspects of the Internet of Things and other areas and explore neurosurgery using a computer-controlled ultrasound, respectively.

Science Night is the largest national event aimed at popularisation of science which engages the general public in the inspiring environment of science. A total of 9 component parts of BUT participated this year (faculties, scientific centres and university institutes).

27.9.2019 Best Paper award from CADE 2019 for the VeriFIT group

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:51:07 GMT

Vojtěch Havlena, Lukáš Holík, Ondřej Lengál and Tomáš Vojnar of the VeriFIT group received the award for the best paper at the prestigious CADE 2019 conference dealing with the subject of automated verification in formal systems. The article titled "Automata Terms in a Lazy WSkS Decision Procedure" deals with decision-making on formulae for the WSkS logic using symbolic techniques for work with finite-state (tree) automata. The WSkS logic is used e.g. to describe infinite sets of charts in formal assessment and search for errors in programs with dynamic data structures. In addition, the Programme Committee awarded Vojtěch Havlena with the student Woody Bledsoe Award for an extraordinary contribution in the area of automated assessment.

23.9.2019 The faculty gave out almost two hundred microcomputers to first-year students in Master’s study programmes

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:51:39 GMT

The Faculty gave out almost two hundred small single-plate Raspberry Pi 3B+ computers to first-year students enrolled in the new Master's programme Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Since this academic year, the programme has been offering seventeen new specialisations with curricula responding to the current trends and needs in the rapidly developing field of IT.

The microcomputers were handed over to the first batch of students by the Faculty Dean Pavel Zemčík and his colleagues today at the introductory lecture of the AVS course (Architektury výpočetních systémů - Computational Systems Architecture). "With this step, we want to motivate the students and provide them with an impulse to obtain a positive relationship, or even 'love' towards hardware," said Pavel Zemčík.

Raspberry Pi will enable students to work on school projects but its use is much broader - students can connect small electronic devices to it, they can create a multimedia video or music player, control camera surveillance systems, build a robot or automate their households.

20.9.2019 Three students who created the Nepanikař application received the Zdena Rábová award

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:53:08 GMT

Students of the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT Tomáš Chlubna and Aleš Řezáč and their colleague Veronika Kamenská from FEEC received the Zdena Rábová award from Pavel Zemčík, the Dean of FIT. This award is presented to prominent personalities from among the faculty students for their active participation in science and research and for their overall contribution to the faculty's prestige.

Three students created the Nepanikař (Don't Panic) mobile application, which can provide immediate assistance to people with panic attacks or people thinking of suicide. In addition to the undisputed social benefit, the mobile application also gained considerable media attention. Currently, the application has 25 thousand downloads and contributed to saving more than thirty lives. You can read more about the application HERE.

19.9.2019 Night of Scientists at FIT: Traveling in virtual reality, scalpel-free operations and robotic workplace of the future

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:06:36 GMT

The Night of Scientists will open doors to laboratories and research centers throughout the Czech Republic again this year: on Friday 27th September from 6 pm to midnight.
At FIT, visitors will have an opportunity to travel without a carbon footprint - in the world of virtual reality they can return to their holiday destination with a new software tool developed at FIT.
Jiří Jaroš will take the visitors to the near future, in which doctors will be able to remove a tumor without a single cut with a scalpel and will be able to treat epileptic seizures or Parkinson's disease thanks to supercomputers. Come to listen to his lecture (in Czech) "Neurosurgery and neurostimulation using computer-controlled ultrasound".
In a lecture by Libor Polčák "Security not only of the Internet of Things", visitors will learn what it looks like when data or the ability to control Internet-connected devices fall into unauthorized hands.
In the robotics lab, visitors can program their lego robots and teach them what to do in different situations, or learn about the robotic workplace of the future.
There will be also logical tasks and puzzles prepared for the visitors to show how important mathematical logic is not only for computer science and how easy it is to solve them thanks to the computers.

16.9.2019 Speech group took the first place in the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:54:06 GMT

The Speech@FIT group achieves another great success in an international competition. Its members, Shuai Wang and Hossein Zeinali, received award certificates for the first place in the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge (VoxSRC) at workshop in Graz. Its aim is to evaluate how well can contemporary methods be used for recognition of speakers in various environments; the participants in the competition were tasked to recognise speakers in the audio track of certain recordings. The VoxCeleb database contains several hundreds of thousands of videos including several thousand recordings of celebrities; the videos range from professionally edited recordings to informal videos containing laughter or noise in the background.

You can find the results HERE and HERE.

12.9.2019 Pratibha Moogi: India Centric R&D efforts in artificial intelligence

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:46:07 GMT

India today is a country with 1.3 billion inhabitants, 300 million smartphone users and 600 million Internet users. And also a country with rich opportunities for and experience in information technology, artificial intelligence and science and development. If you are interested in this topic, do not miss a lecture by Dr. Pratibha Moogi "India Centric R&D efforts in artificial intelligence".

Her talk takes place on Friday, September 13, 2019 at 13:00 in room A112.

More information about the lecture and Dr. Moogi can be found HERE.

5.9.2019 New Czech-Israeli research grant at FIT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:54:38 GMT

The objective of the new Czech-Israeli research co-operation is to find new methods for visual geo-location or estimation of depth from an image. The research grant was awarded to the team of Martin Čadík from FIT and the team of Professor Yosi Keller from Bar Ilan University. Together, the two teams will use the convolution neural networks to develop a new registration algorithm and descriptor of 2.5D and 3D models, a new method for localisation of cameras in the natural environment and a multimodal dataset for training networks predicting depth from a single image.

If the researchers manage to develop these new methods, the results of the joint research could advance the development of computational photography and could also be of some use in medicine or security.

The international project will last for three years. Its Czech part is financed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Israeli part by the Ministry of Science and Technology Israel.

3.9.2019 Faculty of Information Technology is launching a new website

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:55:03 GMT

With the start of the new semester, the Faculty of Information Technology is launching a new website. The website is more responsive and adapts for better viewing on mobile phones and tablets; at the same time, its new structure reflects modern trends in the area of communication.

"The new website aims to bring the faculty closer to the public - especially people interested in studying at the faculty and applicants, companies interested in establishing co-operation with the faculty, as well as to the general public, which can use the website to learn more about the research and development at FIT. At the same time, we focused on ensuring that the new structure provides easy orientation to the current students and that information is always easy to find and up-to-date," said Vítězslav Beran, Vice-Dean for External Relations.

The design of the website is part of the unified visual communication of Brno University of Technology and is now used by all component parts of BUT. The faculty Computer Centre, the External Relations Department and other component parts of FIT participated in the creation of the new website of the Faculty. If you find any discrepancies on the new website, we would be very grateful if you could report them at web@fit.vut.cz.

2.9.2019 Tomáš Milet and Milan Češka will receive the award for the best teachers at FIT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:56:13 GMT

In November, the Rector of BUT will present the awards for two best teachers at the faculty - Tomáš Milet for Bachelor's programmes and Milan Češka for Master's programmes. These two teachers have received the most votes from students in the best teacher survey for the academic year 2018/2019. In May, the competition was announced by the Rector of BUT with the support of the Academic Senate; the awards will be presented at the Academic Assembly in November. Congratulations to the winners and all the teachers ranked among the best according to the survey and many thanks to the students for voting. Complete results are available HERE.

2.9.2019 13th Alpine Verification Meeting -- AVM'19

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:57:10 GMT

The Faculty of Information Technology of BUT in co-operation with the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University organised the 13th Alpine Verification Meeting - AVM'19 which took place from 9 to 11 September. This is a meeting of people interested in current research in the area of automatic verification (as well as some other areas) from the Alpine region and the surrounding countries. At the meeting, mainly doctoral students were presenting their results, however, there were also three lectures given by prominent experts in the given area: J. Esparza of TU Munich, M. Pezze of Universita della Svizzera italiana and Universita degli studi di Milano Bicocca and N. Gorogiannis from Facebook. For more information, see HERE.

10.7.2019 FIT organises an international summer school and offers students from all over the world courses in various areas of IT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:58:09 GMT

In the second half of July, the first year of the international BISSIT summer school (Brno International Summer School in Information Technology) took place at the Faculty of Information Technology. The summer school offered people from all over the world courses in the area of interactive applications, machine learning and robot programming. From 15 to 31 July, the participants were able to attend both theoretical and practical seminars, join organised visits to technology companies and undertake informal trips to interesting places nearby. For more information, see HERE.

1.7.2019 Summer school (F)IT for girls is taking place for the thirteenth time

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:59:36 GMT

The participants of the Summer School (F)IT for girls had the opportunity to programme a LEGO robot, try hacking using a gummy bear, create their own chatbots or learn to edit photographs. Having the longest history in the Czech Republic, the event was organised for the thirteenth time this year in the period from 26 to 30 August 2019. It is intended primarily for students aged 12 to 19 who are interested in IT. With the FIT fits girls (FIT sluší dívkám) project, the faculty strives to support young girls so that they do not fear the IT fields. For more information, go to the Summer School website.

28.6.2019 The Faculty of Information Technology has obtained accreditation for a new Bachelor’s and Master’s programme

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:00:33 GMT

This week, the Internal Evaluation Board of BUT granted accreditation for a new Bachelor's and new Master's programme for the following 10 years. The most significant changes concern the follow-up Master's programme, which will offer 17 new specialisations reflecting the needs of the industry and enable graduates to better adapt to new trends (for more details, see HERE). The accreditation was granted as part of the internal approval processes that we could apply due to the institutional accreditation. The Brno University of Technology acquired the institutional accreditation in 2019 as the first technology-oriented higher education institution in the Czech Republic - the accreditation enables it to approve its own study programmes and thus better respond to educational needs and the needs of the labour market.

27.6.2019 Vojtěch Mrázek received the Joseph Fourier Prize presented by a Nobel Prize winner

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:01:12 GMT

Dr. Vojtěch Mrázek of the Department of Computer Systems received the Joseph Fourier Prize (1st place), which is awarded annually by the Embassy of the French Republic in Prague in co-operation with Atos; the award was presented by Nobel Prize laureate Jean-Marie Lehn in a ceremony held in the National Museum. The prize is awarded to students of doctoral programmes for research work in the field of computer sciences and informatics. The winners receive financial support and are presented with the opportunity to travel to a research laboratory in France for sholarship. Vojtěch Mrázek deals with the use of machine learning for optimisation and approximation of digital logic circuits. His research was also recently recognised with the Antonín Svoboda Prize awarded by the Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics.

10.6.2019 Quantum Computing Workshop at FIT

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:01:44 GMT

From 29 to 31 May, about twenty FIT students participated in the Quantum Computing Workshop. The three-day international workshop on quantum programming was organised by the Faculty of Information Technology together with the QLatvia research group of the University of Latvia. At the workshop, the participants were introduced to quantum calculations and learnt how to write simple quantum programmes.

The workshop was preceded by an opening lecture by Miroslav Iwachow, Technical Leader at IBM's industrial section for Central and Eastern Europe, who presented the first industrial initiative to build universal quantum computers for business and science. Abuzer Yakaryilmaz of the University of Latvia was in charge of the workshop itself; we also thank mentors Michal Bidl and Murali Karthick Baskar from FIT and Michal Sedlák from the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

25.5.2019 120 years of BUT at FIT: Open Day

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:03:02 GMT

On 25 May, BUT was celebrating its 120th anniversary and organised Open Days at all its faculties.

Visitors to the Open Day at the Faculty of Information Technology could see the faculty laboratories, which were accessible from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For example, they could visit a biometric or robotic laboratory, see what it is like to be under a cyber-attack, try working with an interactive sand box or experience the way in which photographs can be viewed in virtual reality. The Museum of Computer Technology, which maps the development of computer technology with exhibits of memories from the first computers, was also opened and the visitors could likewise attend an exhibition of students' photographs. A lecture was held at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., describing how the faculty changed over the 55 years from the establishment of the Department of Automatic Computers and how it looked today. At 12 noon, visitors were taken for a tour of the faculty with one of the authors of the reconstruction, architect Aleš Burian.

The celebrations of the 120th anniversary of BUT continued in the afternoon with a music festival held at the Pod Palackého vrchem campus.

1.9.2018 - 30.10.2020 Erasmus+ Mobility

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:44:54 GMT

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