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study 16 September - 30 November 2021

(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 3 June 2021

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 2 June 2021

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 21 May 2021

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 18 May 2021

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 13 May 2021

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 7 May 2021

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 3 May 2021

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 27 April 2021

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 23 April 2021

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 21 April 2021

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 7 April 2021

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 24 March 2021

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 19 March 2021

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 11 March 2021

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 10 March 2021

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 3 March 2021

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 1 March 2021

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 25 February 2021

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 22 February 2021

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 15 February 2021

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 10 February 2021

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 3 February 2021

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 2 February 2021

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 1 February 2021

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 29 January 2021

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 14 January 2021

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 7 January 2021

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 18 December 2020

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 14 December 2020

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 11 December 2020

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 8 December 2020

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 4 December 2020

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 4 December 2020

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 3 December 2020

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 2 December 2020

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 25 November 2020

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 24 November 2020

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 23 November 2020

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 19 November 2020

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 17 November 2020

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 13 November 2020

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 12 November 2020

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 5 November 2020

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 30 October 2020

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 29 October 2020

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 27 October 2020

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 14 October 2020

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 13 October 2020

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 9 October 2020

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 8 October 2020

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 7 October 2020

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 30 September 2020

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 29 September 2020

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 22 September 2020

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 18 September 2020

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 14 September 2020

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 9 June 2020

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 24 April 2020

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 24 April 2020

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 17 April 2020

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 16 April 2020

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 6 April 2020

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 24 March 2020

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 23 March 2020

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 13 March 2020

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 12 March 2020

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 12 March 2020

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 10 March 2020

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 10 March 2020

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 4 March 2020

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 2 March 2020

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 12 February 2020

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 10 February 2020

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 20 December 2019

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 18 December 2019

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 10 December 2019

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 4 December 2019

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 3 December 2019

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 2 December 2019

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 1 December 2019

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 27 November 2019

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 26 November 2019

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 25 November 2019

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 18 November 2019

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 14 November 2019

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 13 November 2019

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 11 November 2019

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 8 November 2019

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 5 November 2019

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 4 November 2019

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 30 October 2019

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 30 October 2019

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 23 October 2019

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 22 October 2019

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 18 October 2019

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 8 October 2019

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 2 October 2019

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 30 September 2019

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 27 September 2019

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 23 September 2019

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 20 September 2019

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 19 September 2019

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 16 September 2019

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 12 September 2019

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 5 September 2019

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 3 September 2019

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 2 September 2019

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 2 September 2019

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 10 July 2019

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 1 July 2019

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 28 June 2019

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 27 June 2019

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 10 June 2019

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 25 May 2019

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. …

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1BIT: Placement test of knowledge/skills in English

Physical education at BUT

The world's leaders in speech processing are heading to Brno

(F)IT Summer School for Girls will support female IT students for the fifteenth time

The faculty received a new car from ŠKODA AUTO. It will serve the students in their studies

Bioinformatician helps archaeogeneticists search for primordial organisms

New app developed by FIT students helps people find barrier-free vaccination and testing sites

The Technical Museum opens after nearly five months and will also exhibit three robots from FIT

The successful Czech Science Foundation project reveals bugs in programs

Students presented their best IT ideas at the Excel@FIT conference

Booster-Challenge@FIT awarded prizes to promising student start-up projects

BUT is among world's five best institutions in the field of speech recognition

Erasmus + and Freemovers internship placements opened for students and recent graduates

Ph.D. students are preparing development of the CubeSat satellite at BUT

FIT team wins first place in the MAPC - Multi-Agent Programming Contest

Brno International Summer School in Information Technology

The faculty provided its students with equipment kits. It will help them with practical classes

The European SAUCE project involving FIT will provide smart content to help video content creators and game developers

We Live IT: Recordings of lectures are available online

The VGS-IT series returns to the faculty, at least in a virtual form. The first lecture will be given by Srikanth Madikeri

FIT doctoral student looks for bugs causing apps to "freeze"

How to land on the Moon? A FIT student's simulation successful in the 8 of BUT competition

Applicants for study can tour the campus with the Dean of the FIT through a video; the BUT campaign is about saving the world

FIT researchers are among the most cited authors

FIT students' apps: alcohol consumption and seating charts

A DNS probe helps the CZ.NIC association with a more efficient collection of data

Researchers at FIT BUT in cooperation with Adobe Research developed a new augmented reality method and are waiting for their pat

FIT contributes to the creation of Brno.AI, Brno's new artificial intelligence platform

The second place in 8 of BUT won by a FIT student with a simulation of lunar probe landing

Two FIT students received prizes in the Brno PhD Talent competition

System for answering human questions developed at FIT succeeded in a trivia quiz

IT Spy:Thesis from FIT in TOP 10 of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Platform by FIT is searching for the owners of cryptocurrency addresses. It is able to connect them to illegal activity

Exhibition at the Technical Museum: FIT robots watch theatre and explore collaboration with humans

FIT will co-operate on the development of the BringAuto autonomous vehicle

FIT works together with Microsoft Research on protection against DoS attacks

FIT graduates' GINA helps Italian paramedics to handle the pandemic

Online workshop called "Business projekty"

The BUT Student Entrepreneurial Spirit Award was won by Discyo, an app that can tell what you like

The Digital Innovation Game is back at FIT

2020th Ceremonial Academic Assembly of BUT Rector awarded 8 people associated with FIT

Students from Brno have won gold at the iGEM competition with their solution for cleaning water from blue-green algae

The Night of Scientists will be held online. Explaining the co-operation between humans and robots

The Josef Hlávka Award for talented students was presented to Simeon Borko from FIT

Computer stopped working a few days before submitting an assignment? Students may borrow faculty laptops

Anna Silnova's article won an award at the Odyssey 2020 international conference

Results of elections to the BUT Academic Senate

FIT is part of an emerging artificial intelligence platform

Od nápadu k produktu: online seminar with Martin Kešner

Results of the "Best Teacher at FIT according to the Students&#8217; Evaluation"poll for the year 2019/2020

Espressif Systems became FIT's new industrial partner

Government regulations allow presence at examinations and close canteens

FIT will host an online debate of four important personages in the field of IT

The government closes universities for students for two weeks

Star(t)up@FIT: Students will be able to talk to successful start-up owners and investment managers, as well as to each other

First-year students in the Master's study programme will receive new Raspberry Pi microcomputers from FIT

Algorithms developed at FIT help photographers. The new function can automatically straighten lines

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

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

Letter to students with information for the new semester

Security research of the Ministry of the Interior: An FIT probe that helps with lawful interceptions

Release of measures against the spread of coronavirus

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

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

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

New project of FIT BUT and FSS MUNI will provide feedback to psychotherapists

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

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

Call for Erasmus+ students to return home

BUT emergency measures due to the spread of coronavirus

BUT emergency measures for the current situation

Safety measure of the Ministry of Health - situation at FIT

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

International Summer School in IT at FIT for the second time

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

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

FIT ranked in the TOP 3 in Týden magazine&#8217;s comparison of universities

Happy New Year 2020

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

Results of the "Best Teacher at FIT according to the Students’ Evaluation"poll for the year 2019/2020

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

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

Exhibition of insignia of Brno’s universities and faculties

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

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