Change of the opening hours of the FIT library
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news Czech and world cybersecurity experts to come to Brno
Current challenges and new results of cyber security research will form the programme of the European Conference on Security Research in Cyberspace. In addition to topics such as cybercrime, safe artificial intelligence, protection of critical infrastructures of the state and education, and prevention in cyber security, it will offer a practical demonstration of the latest laboratory equipment. … -
study - Submission of the theses - June term of the state examinations
The submission deadline of the theses is not going to be postponed in this academic year. The submissions deadlines are as follows: bachelor thesis: 2022-05-11 master thesis: 2022-05-18 On the dates specified above the theses has to be submitted electronically using IS FIT and on paper (room C208) during … -
study - The overview of examinations from selected courses after SUMMER semester
For easier checking of collisions (the non-overlaping exam times during one day are not considered collisions) for the exams after the SUMMER semester, the following exam dates and times are available for the courses, that are mandatory on any field/specialization or are mandatory or mandatory elective on … -
news Rector awarded prizes to great personages of BUT. The silver medal was presented to Adam Herout
On Thursday, the Rector Petr Štěpánek awarded prizes to twelve personages of Brno University of Technology. Professor Adam Herout, who specializes in computer vision at FIT, received a silver medal for his work in the areas of teaching, research and … -
museum Science pushes us further. And we are pushing science forward.
Research is one of the pillars of the faculty, its staff and many students. At FIT, research is the responsibility of Tomáš Vojnar, Vice Dean for Science and Research. "Both basic and applied research is cutting edge at FIT and we can foster the transfer of ideas ranging from mathematics to applications developed with companies. That's what I find so great here," he says. -
news An app developed by a FIT student helps create a perfect diet
Kilojoules and protein intake, eating chicken with rice instead of burger with fries - do you think that only bodybuilders worry about their diet? That's not the case at all! Everyone should be interested in nutrition, whether they want to lose weight, build muscles, or just maintain the same weight they had when they were twenty (if advisable). … -
news 20th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Information Technology
On the 1st of January 2022, the Faculty of Information Technology celebrated its twentieth "birthday". It was exactly 20 years ago that the Faculty was established on the foundations of what was then the Institute of Computer Science and Technology of the former Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (which split into FIT and FEEC in 2002). … -
news Dominik Harmim from FIT is among the winners of the Brno Ph.D. Talent competition
Twenty-five young talents selected by the expert jury of the Brno Ph.D. Talent competition will receive financial support from Brno City Hall for their work. Dominik Harmim, one of the awardees, is a doctoral student working on efficient methods for analysis and error-finding in parallel programs at the Department of Intelligent Systems as part of Prof. Tomáš Vojnar's VeriFIT research group. … -
news New FIT professor Jan Černocký appointed by the President
On Wednesday, President Miloš Zeman appointed new professors based on the proposals of university scientific and artistic boards. Jan Černocký, head of the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia at the Faculty of Information Technology is among the eighty newly appointed professors. … -
news Virtual reality helps patients cope with stressful situations
Being with people who give you their undivided attention. For the average person, this is basically an everyday situation. For people suffering from social phobia, this is a very stressful moment. Thanks to the Ekhi project which is being worked on by physicians from the University Hospital Brno and experts from … -
news Brno City Award for Peter Chudý of FIT
The members of the Brno Municipal Assembly approved the proposal to award 15 people who will receive the Brno City Award 2021 from the Mayor next year. In the category of technical sciences, the prize will be awarded to Peter Chudý of the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Faculty of Information Technology, BUT. … -
news The second best Czech or Slovak diploma thesis in the field of IT comes from FIT
The twelfth year of the competition for the best diploma thesis in the field of IT, in which nearly 1,300 students from 13 Czech and Slovak universities took part, has its winners. They were selected by an expert jury composed of 19 academics and IT business professionals on Wednesday, 8 December. … -
news From a start-up of academic staff to a global leader: Phonexia becomes the company of the year
Phonexia won the company of the year 2021. The company was founded fifteen years ago as a "speech research" group at FIT with which it has been very closely co-operating up to these days. Phonexia is a global leader in its field - a unique technology which, as the first one in the world, is able to identify a speaker solely using a neural network to achieve the highest accuracy and speed possible. … -
news Printed violoncellos are played by a philharmonic concertmaster or a hockey player
Did you know that when a violoncello player travels with the instrument, they must buy the instrument its own flight ticket? That gets expensive and not even an extra fee may be enough to alleviate the fear of an instrument which is sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of Czech crowns getting damaged. … -
news The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic awarded a prize to FIT for its co-operation on development of an IoT monitoring soft
For the ninth time, the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TACR) awarded prizes for the best applied research projects with high social benefits. The Prize of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic 2021 in the category of Partnership was awarded to the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT, Flowmon … -
news The Josef Hlávka Award for talented students was presented to Vojtěch Havlena
Vojtěch Havlena, a doctoral student at FIT, is one of the five successful students of BUT who were presented with the Josef Hlávka Award on Tuesday 16 November. At the Department of Intelligent Systems, he works on minimising the occurrence of errors in computer programs. … -
news FIT at CyberCon: Unsecured household IoT devices can be easily misused
What dangers are posed by smart devices in households? And can we defend against them? Petr Matoušek tried to answer those questions and many more at the CyberCon conference held at the end of September by the National Cyber and Information Security Agency. … -
news Revolution in hearing devices? Kateřina Žmolíková succeeded in the international Clarity Challenge
How could machine learning help people with a hearing impairment? It is one of the challenges in the field of automatic speech recognition - even the most sophisticated existing hearing aids still face difficulties perceiving speech-in-noise. … -
news Czech Television About science and scientists: What is going on on the dark web?
The dark web is considered a hiding place for trading in illegal goods and services. Daniel Dolejška and his FIT colleagues monitor those transactions and, using individual data, create an information map which will one day provide valuable information. … -
news Maker Faire festival presented student and research projects of FIT
Maker Faire, a festival of innovators, creators and inventions, held at the Brno Exhibition Centre at the end of October, showcased the results of work of students and the BUT Speech@FIT research group. … -
news FIT researchers developed a new browser extension. It helps users to change digital footprints on the Internet
A new tool which is available for nearly all major web browsers was developed by Libor Polčák and FIT BUT students. The Free Software Foundation international non-profit organisation has decided to back their results. … -
news Vice-president of Intel visited FIT
Last week, Saravan Rajendran, vice-president of Data Center Group at Intel, made his first "post-pandemic" trip abroad and visited Brno. At the Faculty of Information Technology, he negotiated possible co-operation in the field of P4 programmable networks. The negotiations led to several suggestions aimed at contractual research involving students. … -
news A new company with BUT ownership interest was founded at FIT. It focuses on FPGA and ASIC technologies.
A new company with BUT ownership interest was founded at the Faculty of Information Technology. The founders of BrnoLogic, which is to be based at FIT, are researchers of the Accelerated Network Technologies research group. … -
news FIT student wants to make life easier for drivers. She came up with a way to find parking spaces using radar
Everybody who has ever been to Brno by car during a working week probably knows that finding a parking space is about as likely as winning a lottery. This is especially true if the driver must rely on parking spaces available to everybody and not just to residents. … -
news A new method developed by FIT researchers will contribute to more realistic videogame and virtual reality environments
A new method developed by researchers from the CPhoto@FIT group can measure the realism of synthetically generated trees. They described the underlying research together with their colleagues from the Purdue University in a paper which was accepted at SIGGRAPH - the most prestigious conference on graphics, which will take place in Tokyo in December. … -
news More than 400 visitors arrived at the Friday Science Night
More than 400 people visited the Faculty of Information Technology on Friday evening and night. For the Science Night, the Faculty prepared 12 stands, where the visitors could acquaint themselves for example with voice biometrics, internet security, robots and drones or 3D printing. The Czech Television was … -
news Dana Hliněná and Jiří Jaroš voted the most popular teachers at FIT
As last year, the awards for the best teachers at the Faculty will go to Dana Hliněná for Bachelor's study programmes and Jiří Jaroš for Master's study programmes. These two teachers have received the most votes from students in the best teacher survey for the academic year 2020/2021. … -
news BUT scored highly in sports competitions
The BUT sportsmen and women brought a few medals back from Olomouc. BUT took the overall fifth place at the Czech Academic Games, even though a few sportsmen won gold medals in their sports, for example Marek Bahník, a FIT student, in the high … -
news Rescue robot RUDA to be seen in the Czech Republic Pavilion at EXPO 2020
The world's fair EXPO 2020 Dubai, which opens on 1 October after a year of delays, will, among others, present a robot from the Faculty of Information Technology. RUDA, a robot for rescuing people in debris and under avalanches, constructed by researchers of the STRaDe@FIT group, will be a part of rotating exhibitions CZ Robot and CZ-EX Machina. … -
news FIT researchers succeeded in a historical document analysis competition
FIT researchers won in three tasks within the competition on historical document classification. They received the award at the ICDAR 2021 international conference held in Lausanne, Switzerland, last week. … -
news Another year of a FIT programme supporting student tech start-ups begins
The new semester brings another year of Star(t)up@FIT, a FIT programme supporting student tech start-ups. It is meant for all students who have the ambition to set up a technological company, have an idea they would like to turn into a business or just wish to be involved in new projects beyond the scope of their studies. … -
news Sixty years ago, BUT entered the era of computers. A conference will commemorate this anniversary
Sixty years ago, the first computer was installed at the Brno University of Technology and a separate Laboratory of Computing Machines began to function fully. However, the beginnings of computer science at BUT were complex, so the first LGP-30 computer and the new laboratory found their home at the … -
study - Physical education at BUT
The aim of the work of CESA BUT is a quality physical education process and equal access of all students to physical education and sports activities. CESA's work is based on the philosophy of a healthy lifestyle and an active way of life for university students, including the presentation and promotion of health-promoting physical activities. … -
news The world's leaders in speech processing are heading to Brno
Siri, Alexa, Google - we talk to them all today. But who breathed life into them? Speech recognition has gradually spread from IT labs to smart homes and has become a common part of everyday life. Getting information from audio recordings is becoming increasingly important. … -
news A student of FIT came up with a smart water heater which can reduce costs by up to a third
Turning a standard water heater into a smart one using an affordable device and reducing consumption by up to a third. That is what Adam Grünwald of the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT managed to do in his Bachelor's thesis. … -
news FIT technology powered drone to reveal dangers at large gatherings
A traffic accident, an athlete's collapse or a smoke bomb - all of these need to be addressed as soon as possible to prevent injury or further damage. However, it is sometimes not possible for human beings to identify exactly where the problem originated in the ensuing confusion and to direct rescuers to the right place. … -
news (F)IT Summer School for Girls will support female IT students for the fifteenth time
The Faculty of Information Technology of BUT will host fifteenth edition of the (F)IT Summer School for Girls. Its aim is to encourage girls to pursue education in IT. "Although the proportion of female students at our faculty is slowly increasing, the number is still far from ideal. … -
news Overloaded emergency lines? AI will help.
Czech scientists, including researchers from the Faculty of Information Technology, are developing a voice bot which should be activated in case emergency lines become extremely overloaded. Voice bots should be able to increase capacities in case of a huge number of telephone calls to emergency control centres and thus may prove beneficial during serious natural disasters. … -
news New technology from FIT to help with pilot training
New technology developed at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Brno University of Technology will help pilots train air combat tactics. They will face artificial intelligence in simulated aerial combat. … -
news Czechitas Thesis Award for Kristýna Zaklová of FIT
Three best Bachelor's theses in the field of IT submitted between February 2020 and February 2021 won the Czechitas Thesis Award. The award for the best IT thesis written by a woman was presented to Kristýna Zaklová of FIT for her design and creation of a web-based search engine "Komu patřím" (Who do I belong to) that allows users to search for records of registered pets. … -
news The faculty received a new car from ŠKODA AUTO. It will serve the students in their studies
For example, students will be able to try out user interface designs or experiment with on-board systems directly on a car available at the faculty. The partner company ŠKODA AUTO donated an Octavia IV. … -
news Bioinformatician helps archaeogeneticists search for primordial organisms
Archaeogenetics. This is sometimes called ancestral reconstruction - a technique through which scientists investigate traces of the past, much like archaeologists. However, biologists do not look for them at excavation sites, but in computers. … -
news New app developed by FIT students helps people find barrier-free vaccination and testing sites
The new Covid without Barriers web application aims to facilitate vaccination and testing for persons with reduced mobility. The application is the brainchild of two FIT students - Josef Kolář and Peter Uhrín. … -
news The Technical Museum opens after nearly five months and will also exhibit three robots from FIT
The Technical Museum in Brno re-opened its gates to visitors and unveiled the ROBOT2020 exhibition. It is the largest, most extensive and also the most expensive exhibition project in the museum's 60-year history, but the exhibition had to be closed in December, after just ten days of its opening, due to Covid-19 related restrictions. … -
news The successful Czech Science Foundation project reveals bugs in programs
The efforts to minimise bugs in computer programs are a very hot topic. Bugs which are not found and corrected before deployment can cause great economic losses and even loss of life. The interest in automated bug-hunting techniques is therefore growing across industries, incentivising an intensive development of new bug hunting methods and tools. … -
news Students presented their best IT ideas at the Excel@FIT conference
Over five dozen papers were presented in the final selection of the Excel@FIT student conference, which was held on Thursday by the Faculty of Information Technology of Brno University of Technology for the seventh time. … -
news Booster-Challenge@FIT awarded prizes to promising student start-up projects
The Faculty of Information Technology expressed its support for the best business ideas which succeeded in the Booster-Challenge@FIT competition by awarding them with a total of 140 thousand Czech crowns. … -
news BUT is among world's five best institutions in the field of speech recognition
The latest ArnetMiner server's "AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars" ranking has confirmed that FIT researchers are among the world's leaders in the area of speech recognition. BUT is among the world's five most important institutions in this field in the world - alongside Google, Facebook, IBM and Carnegie Mellon University. … -
news Erasmus + and Freemovers internship placements opened for students and recent graduates
Until 18 May, those interested in studying abroad can apply for Erasmus+ practical and graduate internships (implemented by the end of September 2022) and for Freemovers (implemented by December 2021). … -
news Ph.D. students are preparing development of the CubeSat satellite at BUT
The BUTCube team succeeded in the new BUT grant competition for Ph.D. students with its project dedicated to the development of a small space satellite. Over the next two years, the team will work on the development and design of a CubeSat satellite and its testing. BUTCube is the first BUT team tasked with the creation of an entire CubeSat. … -
news FIT team wins first place in the MAPC - Multi-Agent Programming Contest
A FIT BUT team won the fifteenth year of the most prestigious multi-agent programming competition, MAPC 2021. Consisting of František Zbořil Jr., Václav Uhlíř as the main programmer and doctoral students František Vídeňský and Martin Šůstek, the team succeeded in global competition at the event, which compares different programming systems and approaches to the design of multi-agent systems. … -
news Brno International Summer School in Information Technology
The Faculty of Information Technology opens an International Summer School in IT. It will offer courses in cyber security, machine learning and interactive applications to people from around the world. … -
news The faculty provided its students with equipment kits. It will help them with practical classes
In the past weeks, the faculty prepared around eighty emergency packages which will enable students of follow-up Master's programmes to pass practical laboratory workshops even at home. The equipment kits will facilitate distance learning in the Design of Embedded Systems (NAV) and Principles and Principles and Design of IoT (TOI) courses. … -
news The European SAUCE project involving FIT will provide smart content to help video content creators and game developers
Can digital content be created in a smarter, better, faster and cheaper way? That was the main question for the European SAUCE project, in which the BUT Faculty of Information Technology collaborated with four other universities and three industry partners - Disney Research, a part of The Walt Disney Company, … -
news We Live IT: Recordings of lectures are available online
The We Live IT conference, which took place online last week, offered seventeen specialised topics, meetings with ten graduates and six e-stands. At the event, which aims to introduce students to interesting topics, technologies and procedures in IT, twenty speakers presented their work to over 140 participants. … -
news The VGS-IT series returns to the faculty, at least in a virtual form. The first lecture will be given by Srikanth Madikeri
Invited Talks on Vision, Graphics return to the faculty. The VGS-IT lecture series, which already introduced many world-famous personages from the fields of computer vision, graphics and speech processing give lectures at FIT, is returning after a "covid break", at least in a virtual form. … -
news FIT doctoral student looks for bugs causing apps to "freeze"
Every day, we rely on the flawless functioning of dozens, if not hundreds, of applications and programs running on our computers, be they web browsers, information systems, communications software, or a multitude of hidden programs running in the background. … -
news How to land on the Moon? A FIT student's simulation successful in the 8 of BUT competition
It has been more than 48 years since humans last walked on the surface of the Moon. A potential return to the Moon has recently become a frequently discussed topic and it attracted the attention of Jakub Karpíšek, a FIT student, who decided to research this area as part of his Bachelor's thesis. … -
news Applicants for study can tour the campus with the Dean of the FIT through a video; the BUT campaign is about saving the world
What will our future look like? This is the question posed by the new recruitment campaign of Brno University of Technology. The campaign places the video's protagonist in a post-apocalyptic world and shows him that he can improve the world thanks to the knowledge and skills acquired at Brno University of Technology. … -
news FIT researchers are among the most cited authors
Lukáš Sekanina from the Department of Computer Systems ranks among the two percent of most cited researchers in the area of Information & Communication Technologies. His research at FIT focuses on biology-inspired artificial intelligence, especially genetic programming, and applications in the areas of automated design or adaptation of hardware and software. … -
news FIT students' apps: alcohol consumption and seating charts
Applications that keep track of how many drinks you have had at the bar, find the nearest public toilet or help you draw random numbers. These are just some of the apps developed by students within the TAM course supervised by Adam Herout. … -
news A DNS probe helps the CZ.NIC association with a more efficient collection of data
The Accelerated Network Technologies Research Group (ANT@FIT) has been co-operating with the CZ.NIC association since 2018 on the creation of a probe for monitoring DNS traffic (DNS probe). Drawing on its experience with fast network traffic processing, the group helped develop a probe that can process DNS traffic very quickly using regular commodity hardware through the AF_PACKET interface or the DPDK system. … -
news Researchers at FIT BUT in cooperation with Adobe Research developed a new augmented reality method and are waiting for their pat
Imagine yourself pulling out your phone to take a picture of a beautiful view. You point the camera towards the landscape and your device tells you, in augmented reality, the names of surrounding hills, their elevation, tourist paths in the area and can even show you the terrain contours. … -
news FIT contributes to the creation of Brno.AI, Brno's new artificial intelligence platform
Autonomous cars and receptionists, applications for the visually impaired, voice recognition, virtual power stations or developing a cure for Covid - all this could be achieved by employing artificial intelligence. … -
news The second place in 8 of BUT won by a FIT student with a simulation of lunar probe landing
8 of BUT, that is eight Bachelor's degree graduates from BUT who succeeded in the annual presentation competition 8 of BUT, which was this year organised in the form of online presentations due to the pandemic. … -
news Two FIT students received prizes in the Brno PhD Talent competition
Among the 130 participating first-year doctoral students, two entrants from the Faculty of Information Technology impressed the jury of Brno PhD Talent, a competition among Brno universities. Roman Andriushchenko and Jiří Pavela, both from the Department of Intelligent Systems, made it to the top-twenty-five and will thus receive a scholarship from the city of Brno. … -
news System for answering human questions developed at FIT succeeded in a trivia quiz
It was a close call, but team of researchers from the KNOT@FIT group - Martin Fajčík, Martin Dočekal, Karel Ondřej and Pavel Smrž - managed to come in third at the EfficientQA competition held as part of the NeurIPS 2020 conference. … -
news IT Spy:Thesis from FIT in TOP 10 of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The split 4th-10th place of the IT Spy competition went to Roman Andriushchenko from FIT. His diploma thesis, supervised by Milan Češka Jr., deals with computer-aided synthesis of probabilistic models. … -
news Platform by FIT is searching for the owners of cryptocurrency addresses. It is able to connect them to illegal activity
The platform, which helps identify people buying illegal services on the Internet, has been created by Vladislav Bambuch from FIT BUT. He first encountered the topic of processing of publicly available data and linking them to cryptocurrency addresses in one of his university courses. … -
news Exhibition at the Technical Museum: FIT robots watch theatre and explore collaboration with humans
Interaktivní výstavu na téma robotiky připravilo Technické muzeum v Brně ke stému výročí prvního vydání dramatu Karla Čapka R. U. R., v němž autor poprvé použil tehdy nové slovo "robot". … -
news FIT will co-operate on the development of the BringAuto autonomous vehicle
The Faculty of Information Technology will co-operate on the development of an autonomous control system for the autonomous vehicle called BringAuto. Beginning next year, researchers from the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia will train deep neural networks and "teach" the vehicle to drive itself, as a part of the new project called H2020 5G-ERA. … -
news FIT works together with Microsoft Research on protection against DoS attacks
Members of the VeriFIT group (Lenka Turoňová, Lukáš Holík, Ondřej Lengál, and Tomáš Vojnar) and their colleague Margus Veanes from Microsoft Research (Redmond, USA) found an innovative approach to protection against a class of DoS attacks. … -
news FIT graduates' GINA helps Italian paramedics to handle the pandemic
The Brno-based software company GINA, founded by Brno University of Technology (BUT) graduates, together with its Italian partner Beta 80, received a grant from the European Space Agency for the development of a technology which should be of great help to Italian paramedics in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. … -
news Online workshop called "Business projekty"
On Wednesday, 9 December, an instalment of the Startup Booster event series programme, an online workshop named Business projekty (Business Projects), will take place. In this online workshop, the programme consultants Martin Jírovec and Milan Brabec will discuss market and competition analysis, business plans and differences between student and commercial projects. … -
news The BUT Student Entrepreneurial Spirit Award was won by Discyo, an app that can tell what you like
The BUT Student Entrepreneurial Spirit Award competition, which was held by BUT for the very first time this year, was won by the Discyo application, a project of four students from the Faculty of Information Technology. … -
news The Digital Innovation Game is back at FIT
After a year, a unique workshop, aimed at familiarising students with the Design Thinking method and showing them how to turn an idea into a business through play and a playful simulation, returns to FIT. … -
news 2020th Ceremonial Academic Assembly of BUT Rector awarded 8 people associated with FIT
Eight individuals associated with FIT chosen from among its students, employees, or co-workers, have been awarded by the Rector Petr Štěpánek at the CeremonialAcademic Assembly of BUT. The annual ceremony, announcing the Best Teachers Award winner and honouring selected individuals associated with the university, was scheduled for 24 November, but was cancelled due to the current situation. … -
news Students from Brno have won gold at the iGEM competition with their solution for cleaning water from blue-green algae
A team of students from the Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology called Generation Mendel has won gold medal and was nominated for Best Environment Project at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) global competition. … -
news The Night of Scientists will be held online. Explaining the co-operation between humans and robots
Over twenty videos have been prepared by the BUT researchers for this year's Night of Scientists, which will be exceptionally held online. Faculty of Information Technology will take this opportunity to show its numerous facilities used for research on human-computer interaction. … -
news The Josef Hlávka Award for talented students was presented to Simeon Borko from FIT
One of this year's winners presented with the Josef Hlávka Award for talented students was Simeon Borko from FIT. He received the award for his work on the EnzymeMiner project which he described in his Bachelor's thesis and in a publication in the international journal Nucleic Acids Research. … -
news Computer stopped working a few days before submitting an assignment? Students may borrow faculty laptops
What to do when your laptop breaks down before submitting an assignment and when there is currently no access to computer laboratories? Students who have to face such a problem can now borrow faculty laptops. … -
news Anna Silnova's article won an award at the Odyssey 2020 international conference
Anna Silnova from FIT and her colleagues wrote the best expert student article. They won the Jack Godfrey's Best Student Paper Award at the Odyssey conference - the most prestigious event in the field of automatic speaker and language recognition. … -
news Results of elections to the BUT Academic Senate
In the elections to the BUT Academic Senate for the election period of 2020-2023, which took place online on 3 and 4 November, Petr Hanáček (60 votes) and Jiří Jaroš (50 votes) were elected as representatives of academic staff. … -
news FIT is part of an emerging artificial intelligence platform
The Faculty of Information Technology is one of the initiators of the new Brno-based artificial intelligence platform - Brno.AI. Its purpose is to offer the opportunity for companies, universities and public administration to meet and connect and thus create an open community that will help bring AI into the real world. … -
news Od nápadu k produktu: online seminar with Martin Kešner
Where to get the funds to start a new business? What are the success factors and what are the common mistakes of new entrepreneurs? Martin Kešner answered these and other questions in the second online seminar "Od nápadu k produktu" (From Idea to Product) within the Startup Booster programme. … -
news Results of the "Best Teacher at FIT according to the Students’ Evaluation"poll for the year 2019/2020
The awards for best teachers at the faculty will go to Dana Hliněná for Bachelor's study programmes and Jiří Jaroš for Master's study programmes. These two teachers have received the most votes from students in the best teacher survey for the academic year 2019/2020. … -
news Espressif Systems became FIT's new industrial partner
The hardware company Espressif Systems has become a new industrial partner of FIT. Shanghai-based company with a development centre in Brno, will co-operate with the faculty on research in the field of security, wireless solutions, robotics and image processing, and it will also share its knowledge of development on its platforms with students. … -
news Government regulations allow presence at examinations and close canteens
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. … -
news FIT will host an online debate of four important personages in the field of IT
Four prominent personages of the "Czech Silicon Valley" will meet virtually on Thursday, 22 October, at the seminar called Od studenta k CEO/CTO (From Student to CEO/CTO) (FB event HERE). … -
news The government closes universities for students for two weeks
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. … -
news Star(t)up@FIT: Students will be able to talk to successful start-up owners and investment managers, as well as to each other
What experience have you gained from your journey towards a successful business? Where to get the funds to start a new business? What are the success factors and what are the common mistakes of new entrepreneurs? These and other questions will be answered during the first two seminars of the Star(t)up@FIT programme. … -
news First-year students in the Master's study programme will receive new Raspberry Pi microcomputers from FIT
FIT will give out over two hundred small single-board Raspberry Pi 4 computers with small accessories to first-year FIT students enrolled in the Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Master's study programme. … -
news Algorithms developed at FIT help photographers. The new function can automatically straighten lines
Zoner Photo Studio can now recognise lines in the photo and straighten the photo according to these lines thanks to a new feature developed at the Faculty of Information Technology. It will be especially useful for architecture photographers. … -
news Regional Hygiene Station prohibits the personal participation of students in classes starting from tomorrow
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. … -
news BUT will start with day-time teaching, from the second week it will move as much as possible to online teaching
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. … -
news Letter to students with information for the new semester
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. … -
news Security research of the Ministry of the Interior: An FIT probe that helps with lawful interceptions
The Ministry of the Interior has decided to present projects in the field of security research to the general public. Therefore, it published examples of implemented projects supported by the Ministry within the security research programme on its website. … -
news Release of measures against the spread of coronavirus
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. … -
news Information for applicants: The results of the school-leaving examinations for preferential admission can be submitted in June
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. … -
news Information for applicants: SCIO tests are postponed, enrolments will be in distance mode
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. … -
news The exam period is postponed, the final papers to be submitted two weeks later
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. … -
news New project of FIT BUT and FSS MUNI will provide feedback to psychotherapists
Deep learning, automatic speech recognition technology, natural language computer processing and expert coding will help with feedback for psychotherapists. "Speech researchers" from the Speech@FIT group, together with researchers from the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Social Studies of … -
news BUT contact teaching will be cancelled until at least April 17, 2020
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 … -
news BUT and Charles University belong to the prestigious network of European laboratories for AI
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. … -
news Call for Erasmus+ students to return home
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. … -
news BUT emergency measures due to the spread of coronavirus
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). … -
news BUT emergency measures for the current situation
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. … -
news Safety measure of the Ministry of Health - situation at FIT
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. … -
news BUT canceled full-time lessons from 11 March until further notice
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 … -
news International Summer School in IT at FIT for the second time
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. … -
news Recommendation of the Rector of BUT due to the spread of coronavirus
Recommendation of the Rector of BUT due to the spread of coronavirusStudents 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. … -
news An algorithm that knows what film or book you would enjoy. A FIT student received a grant to design it
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. … -
news FIT ranked in the TOP 3 in Týden magazine’s comparison of universities
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. … -
news Happy New Year 2020
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. … -
news DevConf returns to FIT. It will welcome more than 300 speakers from around the world in January
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. … -
news Pavel Zemčík to keep the post of the Dean of FIT
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. … -
news SC@FIT research group attending the best conference of supercomputing technologies
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 … -
news High school students tried what it is like to study at the faculty for three days
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. … -
news FIT organizes clothes collection. Series of lectures and a library box are also in the making
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. … -
news FIT presented its work on Interpol biometrics
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. … -
news 8 of BUT: FIT and FA students wrote the best Bachelor’s diploma theses
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. … -
news Lukáš Holík and Petr Janků awarded for the best paper
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. … -
news Vojtěch Mrázek awarded the Česká hlava award for research of formal errors in integrated circuits
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. … -
news Rector awarded prizes to great personages of BUT. The gold medal was presented to Professor Dvořák
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. … -
news Ralph Ford received an honorary doctorate of BUT. He has been co-operating with FIT for over 20 years
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. … -
news Dean of the FIT presented Merit Medals for the contributions to the development of the faculty
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. … -
news The Dean of FIT to Award Medals of Merit this Wednesday
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 … -
news An award-winning application of a FIT graduate saves eyesight
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. … -
news The European Institute of Innovation and Technology held a presentation acquainting students with the Design Thinking method
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. … -
news Exhibition of insignia of Brno’s universities and faculties
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. … -
news OpenAlt conference at FIT
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 … -
news Prestigious ERC CZ grant for Lukáš Holík and the VeriFIT group
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. … -
news Git workshop
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. … -
news Martin Kišš received an award for the best scientific poster in Sydney
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. … -
news Following the modernisation of the AV technology in lecture halls and laboratories, the faculty is now fully digital
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. … -
news FIT presented a robotic workplace of the future at the International Engineering Fair
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. … -
news Star(t)up@FIT: Programme to support student technology start-up companies
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. … -
news Science Night attracted almost 500 visitors to FIT
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. … -
news Best Paper award from CADE 2019 for the VeriFIT group
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. … -
news The faculty gave out almost two hundred microcomputers to first-year students in Master’s study programmes
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. … -
news Three students who created the Nepanikař application received the Zdena Rábová award
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. … -
news Night of Scientists at FIT: Traveling in virtual reality, scalpel-free operations and robotic workplace of the future
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 … -
news Speech group took the first place in the VoxCeleb Speaker Recognition Challenge
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. … -
news Pratibha Moogi: India Centric R&D efforts in artificial intelligence
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. … -
news New Czech-Israeli research grant at FIT
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. … -
news Faculty of Information Technology is launching a new website
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. … -
news Tomáš Milet and Milan Češka will receive the award for the best teachers at FIT
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. … -
news 13th Alpine Verification Meeting -- AVM'19
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. … -
news FIT organises an international summer school and offers students from all over the world courses in various areas of IT
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. … -
news Summer school (F)IT for girls is taking place for the thirteenth time
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. … -
news The Faculty of Information Technology has obtained accreditation for a new Bachelor’s and Master’s programme
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). … -
news Vojtěch Mrázek received the Joseph Fourier Prize presented by a Nobel Prize winner
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. … -
news Quantum Computing Workshop at FIT
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. … -
news 120 years of BUT at FIT: Open Day
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. …