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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 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 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 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 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

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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News

Government regulations allow presence at examinations and close canteens

The government closes universities for students for two weeks

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

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

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

Maintenance of the library fund in FIT library

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

Pavel Zemčík to keep the post of the Dean of FIT

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

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

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

FIT presented its work on Interpol biometrics

8 of BUT: FIT and FA students wrote the best Bachelor&#8217;s diploma theses

Lukáš Holík and Petr Janků awarded for the best paper

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

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

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

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

The Dean of FIT to Award Medals of Merit this Wednesday

An award-winning application of a FIT graduate saves eyesight

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

Exhibition of insignia of Brno&#8217;s universities and faculties

OpenAlt conference at FIT

Prestigious ERC CZ grant for Lukáš Holík and the VeriFIT group

Git workshop

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

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

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

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

Science Night attracted almost 500 visitors to FIT

Best Paper award from CADE 2019 for the VeriFIT group

The faculty gave out almost two hundred microcomputers to first-year students in Master&#8217;s study programmes

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

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

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

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

New Czech-Israeli research grant at FIT

Faculty of Information Technology is launching a new website

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

13th Alpine Verification Meeting -- AVM'19

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

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

The Faculty of Information Technology has obtained accreditation for a new Bachelor&#8217;s and Master&#8217;s programme

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

Quantum Computing Workshop at FIT

120 years of BUT at FIT: Open Day

Erasmus+ Mobility

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