What is happening in Prague in AI ethics, safety or governance? That and much more will be discussed at the workshop „Responsible AI in Prague“ on November 3 at 16:00. Join us for the fruitfull discussion on developing responsible AI technology!
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CTU Open 2023 will be held on October 20-21, 2023 in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Ostrava and Slovakian cities. Come compete in the regionals of one of the largest programming contests, the ICPC!
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The dissertation defense of Petr Ryšavý will take place on October 3, 2023. Register to watch it online.
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Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 18.-21. 9. 2023. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!
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AIC researchers contribute to automatic re-identification of sea turtles, beast and other animals using advanced AI tools. Read more about how AI can help mitigate the severe impact of climate crisis such as loss of biodiversity.
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The sixth RCI offsite took place on June 26–28, 2023. The last meeting of this European project included research presentations and informal events like visit to an observatory.
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Václav Mácha receives the Outstanding Teaching Award for his Julia programming course. The jury recognized his unmatched teaching skills and the significant contribution to the course materials.
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Jakub Mareček was a guest of Studio ČT24 where he introduced the AI Act. Watch the recording at 12:30 to understand the newest EU legislation and what to expect in terms or regulation.
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Read about the CoDiet project in The Times. We are thrilled to be part of this exciting research that aims to combat diet-related diseases!
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The 2023 Horizon Europe project CoDiet aims to combat diet-related diseases through innovative diet-monitoring technologies, AI-assisted data analysis and personalized nutrition.
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What tasks does AI perform today? Can its results be trusted? And will machines replace humans in the near future? Some of the most pressing questions that not only kids are wondering were answered by our Ph.D. student Herbert Ullrich. This bright young researcher interested in NLP was a guest on Educast AI dětem (AI for Kids).
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Gustav Šír summarized the risks of AI in his recent blog post on Medium. Dig into the insightful long-read that approaches this hot topic from the perspective of an academic AI researcher.
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Join us on April 27 for a seminar by Maurizio Filippone titled Bayesian Deep Learning. We will discuss the limitations of wide adoption of deep learning.
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Viliam Lisý was on the show Dobré ráno ČT where he talked about AI to a wide audience. Live demonstration of ChatGPT was also part of the session.
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Zhi Yan from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM) will give a talk "Perception and Learning for Mobile Robotics" on April 20.
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Our Ph.D. student Ondřej Lukáš will take you on a fun historical journey through the milestones in artificial intelligence. He was a guest on Educast by AI dětem (AI for Kids) project.
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Two of our papers made it to the prestigious Automatica journal with (IF 6,15). They explore predictability and fairness in load aggregation and operations of virtual power plants.
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How is ChatGPT changing the landscape of NLP research? And what are the implications for businesses looking to leverage these technologies? Join us for an invited talk by Jan Pichl, CTO at PromethistAI which takes place on April 13, 2023.
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Accept our invitation to the next AIC seminar with Jaromír Janisch on April 6 when we will discuss autonomous penetration testing.
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Libor Caha from the Technical University of Munich will give a talk Quantum advantage from simple quantum circuits. Join us on April 5!
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On March 23, 2023, we will host a guest lecture by the mathematician Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche from LAAS-CNRS/ANITI. Join the seminar titled Solving PDE, variational, and optimal control problems using semidefinite programs via occupation measure relaxations.
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The Internet of Things brings new opportunities and new challenges for mission-critical applications where lives are at stake. Miroslav Bureš wrote an article for Red Hat Research Quarterly on testing critical IoT systems and the DTA research project.
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Tomáš Pevný will give a lecture on Steganography at the 53rd Prague Computer Science Seminar. Join us on March 9 to learn about the study of secret messages.
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The fifth RCI Offsite took place in February 2023 in Pilsen. Researchers met for a two-day conference to discuss the newest research results and network across groups.
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Computational Robotics Laboratory organized the Czechia-Taiwan-Germany Workshop on Intelligent Robots.
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We are opening a new course on Quantum Computing taught by Jakub Mareček and his team. What will the students learn?
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The dissertation defense of Michal Trnka will take place on January 23, 2023. Register to watch it online.
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A new book is out! Deep Learning with Relational Logic Representations by Gustav Šír was published in the IOS Press.
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As the winner of IT SPY 2022 competition, Jiří Ulrich presented his diploma thesis on ČT24.
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The DNS4EU project was approved by the European Commission! Together with an international consortium led by Whalebone, we plan to onboard 100 million people to a new EU-based DNS internet infrastructure.
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The Czech Minister of Education Vladimír Balaš awarded our Ph.D. student Šimon Mandlík for extraordinary results and activities.
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Viliam Lisý from AIC explained on Deutsche Welle broadcasting what social engineering means in the field of cybersecurity. Watch and learn!
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IDA group co-organized the Qminers Quant Hackathon 2022 together with the tech company Qminers. Šimon Mandlík, Ph.D. student in our department, won the main prize.
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Our Ph.D. student Jiří Ulrich received the prestigious IT SPY 2022 award for the best diploma thesis in computer science out of 1 200 Czech and Slovak students.
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Our Ph.D. student Jiří Ulrich is in the finals of IT SPY competition 2022 with his Master's thesis on a multiple-camera localization system. Read about his research that can even lead to stabilizing endangered ecosystems.
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CTU Open 2022 will be held on November 4-5, 2022 in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Ostrava and Slovakian cities. Come compete in the regionals of one of the largest programming contests, the ICPC!
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Accept our invitation to the conference "Signal & Noise" on October 27. We will share examples of good practice of automation of sources in journalistic discourse. Join us online!
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Our former colleague and overseas collaborator Michal Čáp talked to Hospodářské noviny about self-driving trucks. The future is near!
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How do robots see the world? Our interactive light installation Forum Robotum brings the state of the art research to one of the biggest cultural events in Prague.
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Join us for the FutureMED 2022 conference dedicated to advanced healthcare technologies in civil and military medicine on September 23-24, 2022 in Hradec Králové.
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Accept our invitations to the CEDMO International Conference on the information chaos held on September 22-23, 2022.
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The Prague Computer Science Seminar on September 14, 2022 will welcome an honorable guest, Richard Sutton from DeepMind and the University of Alberta. Do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
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Assistant Professor Fabio Difonzo from the University of Bari Aldo Moro will give a talk on September 14 on the topic of Stochastic Langevin Differential Inclusions with Applications to Machine Learning.
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Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 12.-15. 9. 2022. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!
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Božena Mannová was interviewed about IT education and women in STEM by the local magazine Šestka.
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Johannes Aspman (Trinity College Dublin) will visit our department on September 12 to give a talk titled A gentle introduction to tame geometry.
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Join us for a seminar led by Andre Uschmajew from the Max Planck Institute who will talk about the Tensor product approximation of linear operators on matrix spaces. We meet at the department on Friday, September 2, 2022.
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Postdoctoral researcher Christos Pelekis from NTU Athens will give a talk on September 1, 2022. Come learn about algorithms for the network coloring game in this IDA seminar!
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The recording of our panel discussion "Transhumanism in Research and in Life" is ready. Dive into the topic of cyborgs, longevity and cloud civilizations with our interesting guests Sara Polak, Dodo and Bolek Kerouš.
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Autonomous explorative missions with SPOT robots were introduced on the popular evening news on TV NOVA (Televizní noviny). Watch the show to learn about this research and its application from Head of the Computational Robotics Lab Jan Faigl.
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A new Ph.D. position was open on the AutoFair project in the field of Mathematical Optimization and Control. If you want to develop trustworthy and transparent AI algorithms, apply now!
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Analyze leaked chat log files and win 1 000 USD in this year's International Cybercrime Research Summer Award!
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Jindřiška Deckerová, the winner of IT SPY 2021 and our bright PhD student, teaches robots to find the best path. And now also inspires other young women to study technology. Read about her visions in robotics and women in science on the Heroine website.
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Let's talk about cyborgs, longevity research, body implants, cloud civilizations and everything related to transhumanism. Panel discussion Transhumanism in Research and in Life takes place on June 16 at 6:00 PM on the Dejvice campus.
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In May 2022, the RCI offsite took place in Ricany. Researchers across the university met to discuss progress in their research and network. Read our report from the event!
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Head of our department Jiří Vokřínek was a guest on the Czech Television's scientific show Věda24 where he talked about navigation systems. How do they work, which AI algorithms power them and why is each app unique? Watch and learn!
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AutoFair project was introduced in a feature on CzechCrunch. Dig in to learn about our Horizon Europe projects for ethical algorithms.
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Project AutoFair receives 3,8 million EUR from the EU. Its aim is the research and development of transparent and explainable AI algorithms. Read more about this huge project we are coordinating!
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Apple AirTags and other location-tracking devices are a useful tool when it comes to locating misplaced items or even missing people. But how can we maintain their privacy standards and guarantee fairness? AI algorithms developed by Jakub Mareček offer solutions.
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Daniel Fišer received the AAAI-2022 Honorable Mention Oustanding Paper Award for his paper "Operator-Potential Heuristics for Symbolic Search".
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Don't miss the invited talk Player of Games by Martin Schmid (Equilibre Technologies) on January 27 at 2:00 PM via Zoom.
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The team of Stratosphere lab uncovered an Android banking botnet and explored the world of underground attackers, informal online forums, and the economy of encrypting malware-as-a-service. They summed up their 5-year-long investigation in an extensive blog post. Highly recommended reading!
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Petr Křemen from the KBSS research group invites you to his webinar on December 15 about SNOMED.
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Jindřiška Deckerová, the winner of IT SPY 2021, introduced her diploma thesis on the national television station ČT24. Watch the recording to learn about Generalized Routing Problems with Continuous Neighborhoods.
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Don't miss the hands-on seminar about the importance and principles of multimedia in online education. It takes place in person on December 10 and requires registration.
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Our Ph.D. student Jindřiška Deckerová won the IT SPY 2021 with her outstanding diploma thesis on Generalized Routing Problems with Continuous Neighborhoods. She is the first woman to win in the competition's 12-year history.
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We invite you to the online conference Signal and Noise. It will take place on December 8, 2021 from 3:00 PM and will focus on how technology is transforming the work of journalists. Jan Drchal and Luboš Král from the AI Center will be presenting as well.
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The Rector of CTU awarded our researchers with medals for extraordinary performances during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Second place in the finals of the DARPA SubT Challenge international competition. Lupa.cz informs about our success in the final round.
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Together with researchers from the Deggendorf Institute of Technology, we are participating in a project using 5G infrastructure in robotic tasks.
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The dissertation defense of Michal Trnka will take place on November 12, 2021 at 15:00. Registration to watch online is required.
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ČT24 (Czech TV) reported about the finals of the DARPA SubT Challenge, where we placed second in the virtual competition. (Play at 13:25)
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A team of the DTA project participated in the exercise of the University of Defence in the military training area Tisá.
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CTU-CRAS-NORLAB team won silver at the DARPA SubT Challenge in the virtual competition and finished sixth in the competition of real robots.
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Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 13.-16. 9. 2021. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!
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Jan Drchal and his colleagues are developing a tool for journalists that will enable automatic fact-checking. How do the algorithm's neural networks work? Why are tweets suitable for fact-checking? And what is a so-called "ground truth"? Find out in the recent article on Lupa.cz.
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How can wearables assist patients in the rehabilitation after Covid-19? Find out in the recently broadcasted show at the Czech Radio (ČRo Radiožurnál) where our researcher Miroslav Bureš introduced the multidisciplinary TERESA project.
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The experts from the TERESA project (TEleREhabilitation Self-training Assistant) were interviewed for the Czech Radio (ČRo Plus) on July 29, 2021.
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The joined TERESA project will enable the rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients in the home environment and allow them to share data with their doctors via fitness wearables.
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How did we upgrade our robodog SPOT and why did we decide not to name it? Find out in the latest article on the Czech Radio (ČRo).
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The Digital Triage Assistant project was featured on Czech Television - ČT24 on July 2, 2021.
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AI Center partners with Bell to explore state-of-the-art transportation solutions in the latest project titled Passenger Decision Modeling in a Multi-Modal Urban Environment.
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Read the latest interview with our researcher Veronica Valeros, where she talks about the Civilsphere project, women in STEM and other security-related topics!
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A four-legged robot SPOT from Boston Dynamics joins the AI Center to increase our chances in the finals of DARPA SubT Challenge.
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The new collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University and other partners of the Digital Triage Assistant (DTA) project will help with treatment of wounded soldiers in combat situations.
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Join us for the virtual conference Transformation of Newsrooms With the Advent of AI Journalism, co-organized by our project research partners, the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism FSV UK. It will take place on May 13, 2021 online.
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We invite you to the (virtual) exhibition Czech Footprint in the History of Computer Science in the National Technical Museum in Prague that runs until May 9, 2021.
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Nowcasting is used by meteorologists to forecast the current weather. This topic was introduced to the Czech Television by our researcher Antonín Komenda, whose startup Meandair is specialized in nowcasting. Read more about the method that requires mathematical modeling and the use of supercomputers.
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One algorithm decides about a loan, another prevents fraud when applying for it. Martin Rehák talked to Hospodářské noviny (Víkend) about the use of artificial intelligence in finances.
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AI Center established internal competition for the best student paper of 2020 published in AIC.
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Immunologist Karel Drbal from IDA research group was interviewed by Aktuálně.cz about the Covid-19 vaccination, its efficiency and strategy for distribution.
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In the new interview for CzechCrunch, Director of the AI Center Michal Pěchouček outlines how the protection of user's identity could help in the fight against fake news.
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Our AI Center is launching a new website and celebrates the 20th anniversary with a fresh visual identity.
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Veronica Valeros is giving an online presentation "Tapping on the Wire: Understanding Malicious Behaviors on the Network". The event is organized on January 28 as part of the Black Hat Webcast Series.
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Even brain implants will one day need a quality mental antivirus. Our director Michal Pěchouček would like to take part in its development. Read an extensive interview about security, military research and the innovation potential of the Czech Republic that was published in the magazine Modern Economic Diplomacy and info.cz.
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Our joint project with ŠKODA AUTO is featured in the latest issue of the university magazine TecniCall which focused on Industry 4.0.
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The diploma thesis by Šimon Mandlík was awarded in two competitions (IT Spy and Best Diploma Thesis by Qminers). Congratulations!
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Niklas Heim will present his paper titled Neural Power Unit at the Czech chapter of NeurIPS on December 11, 2020.
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Petr Křemen from the Knowledge-Based and Software Systems group is co-organizing Jurix 2020 - 33rd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems.
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We are organizing Qminers Quant Hackathon that brings algorithmic trading into the field of sports betting. Register until October 31, beat a virtual bookmaker with your investment strategy and get financial awards.
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Tomáš Krajník will give a lecture as part of the AI Science Café Series 2020 on November 18. Join us online to learn about methods enabling robots to build and maintain spatio-temporal models of environmental dynamics and predict the future states of the environment they operate in.
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Michal Pěchouček, Head of AI Center, was a guest in Forbes Byznys podcast where he talked about the current state of the Czech educational system and how schools prepare students for the future job market.
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The latest white paper published by our cybersecurity research group explores the growth of IPv6 in the last years and how it impacts the field of IoT. Read the full pdf here!
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Sebastián García, Head of Stratosphele Lab (cybersecurity research group) was invited to the panel discussion about AI and human rights at the Information Security Summit 2020.
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Karel Drbal, a prominent immunologist working in our IDA research group, presented his views on the pandemic on ČT24 (national television). He was interviewed together with other academics by excellent Daniel Stach in his show Zěme v nouzi (Country in need).
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Michal Pěchouček, Head of AI Center, talked to the Ekonom magazine about the important impact AI has on the businesses, especially on the very existence of the middle management.
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Propaganda, fake news, and misinformation are not just social science topics. Our AI Center research deals with so-called computational propaganda. In addition to politics, algorithms and automation are increasingly entering communication. Learn how they are being exploited in the first blog post in a series by our cybersecurity team (Stratosphere Lab).
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Our students, Jakub Sláma, Jindřiška Deckerová and Jiří Kubík, placed 2nd in the virtual challenge Aviation ISAC Collegiate CTF Competition focusing on aviation cybersecurity. Congratulations!
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Jan Faigl, Head of Computational Robotics Lab, was interviewed for Avast blog about the influence of the pandemic on research work and what he does to prepare his students for professional life after graduation.
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"Production workers are already being replaced by AI-powered systems," says Michal Pěchouček, Head of AI Center, in the interview for Svět průmyslu.
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Deník N interviewed Karel Drbal from the Intelligent Data Analysis research group about the current Covid-19 pandemic covering his thoughts on immunity being formed under the face masks.
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We invite you to the conference Challenges of Journalism in 21. Century – Automated Journalism and AI Journalism that will take place on September 24, 2020 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague. Researchers are encouraged to submit the abstracts of their talks until July 31.
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Key information about the current coronavirus pandemic for our employees. Other faculty members and students may find this helpful as well. Let's stay safe together!
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Summer Programming Bootcamp for new FEE CTU students will take place on 14.-17. 9. 2020. Sign up to learn the basics of coding before school starts!
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We cooperate on ideathon Hack the Mind. Hack the Brain. Help Us Understand dedicated to the actual topic of cognitive warfare technologies. STILL research group is among the key organizers.
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Michal Pěchouček, Head of AI Center, was interviewed for the Poprvé podcast (Hospodářské noviny). He talked about his passion for math, the beginnings of his career or how he managed to build one of the top AI research centers in the country. Tune in!
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A hybrid navigation system, which we are developing together with the startup AgentFly Technologies, should be ready by the end of this year. It will provide navigation to autonomous vehicles when there is no GPS signal. Find out how our localization algorithms work in the article at BusinessInfo.cz.
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Maria Rigaki and Sebastián García wrote a new blog post mapping how much information ML systems leak. She reviewed the recent techniques, important attacks and why they're possible in the first place. Read the text titled Machine Learning Leaks and Where to Find Them.
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Among others, Pražský deník also reported about our autonomous robots training in the cave complex Býčí skála.
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The online newspaper iDnes.cz reported about our trip to Býčí skála, a cave complex where we tested our autonomous robots. This activity should prepare us for the next round of DARPA competition and real-life rescue missions.
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Our robots are exploring the caves in Moravský kras. The national TV (ČESKÁ TELEVIZE) just did a report about this project on which we cooperate with the Department of Cybernetics.
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Our robotics team is doing an exploration of the cave complex Býčí skála. Read more about how we use drones and ground robots to get into unapproachable places on the Orobotice.cz website.
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Bora Evci from the University of Klagenfurt will give an invited talk on July 23 at 14:30. Dive into the matching theory and its axiomatic part with him this Thursday!
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Ravi Kant Rai who is applying for a PostDoc position with AI Center invites you to his online seminar on Discrete Richman-Bidding Scoring Games that will take place on July 16, 14:30 via Zoom.
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CTU-CRAS group that won the DARPA SubT Challenge among the non-sponsored teams received the award for Project of the Year 2019 at the AI Awards ceremony. Also, our joint conference with Avast CyberSec & AI Prague won Event of the Year 2019. Read more about the competition in the new article at iHNed.cz.
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E15.cz introduced our joint robotics project with AgentFly Technologies. The goal of this cooperation, supported by the Czech Technological Agency, is to develop a unique navigation system for autonomous drones and cars that will be independent of GNSS.
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Aditya Aradhye from Maastricht University is giving an invited talk on July 9, 14:30 to introduce his research in Sender-Receiver Stopping Games.
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AIC director Michal Pěchouček wrote a commentary on the prejudices of algorithms and possible misuse of AI in society in the current issue of Forbes NEXT.
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We are hosting a seminar by Zubair Rafique from KU Leuven on June 24 (Wednesday) at 14:30. Join us virtually for a talk about the security risks of live streaming services.
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The FreMEn contra COVID project received a Special Award and 700 000 CZK at the Hack the Crisis virtual hackathon organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and CzechInvest.
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New app Mobile Social Worker developed by our student Karel Zavadil as part of his Bachelor thesis will help people in crisis seek professional help.
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May 2020: ŠKODA AUTO cooperates with our Software testing IntelLigent Lab (STILL) on the Proof-of-Concept of automated generation of test scenarios for car end tests.
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Our department is part of the Folding@home project contributing to the CTU being the most effective academic institution in the country!
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As part of the Příběhy našich sousedů (Stories of Our Neighbors) project, young students from ZŠ Červený vrch filmed a short video with our researcher Božena Mannová. They captured Boženka's amazing story and the challenges she faced throughout the uneasy Czech history. The project is an activity of the recognized non-profit Post Bellum.
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Our cybersecurity researcher Veronica Valeros (Stratosphere Lab) was featured in the new series Women in Cyber, part of the award-winning Cybersecurity Effectiveness Podcast. She is among 45 recognized experts, leaders and changemakers in the field of security. Listen to her episode People Skills: Making Changes in the Community.
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State doctoral exams in Spring 2019/2020 will be held on May 19, 2020 from 10:00 a.m. You can watch them remotely (online) after registering.
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We invite you to the CyberSec&AI Connected 2020 security conference, which will take place on October 8 in Prague, London, New York and San Francisco. The event organized by CTU and our partner Avast will be streamed online for participants all over the world. The conference also includes technical workshops with Call for Presentations (June 30).
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Covid-19 brought about many attempts to fight the pandemic with technology, one of these being a "Smart quarantine" that uses movement-tracking apps. Is such software a helpful tool or rather a big brother? Tomáš Krajník will talk about the potential negative impacts of these software solutions in an online discussion organized by Paralelní Polis on May 4, 2020 at 20:00.
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Hospodářské noviny (iHNed.cz) wrote about the large investment in Resistant AI, Martin Rehák's startup that aims to protect fintech clients against attacks on their AI systems.
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Fortune magazine reached out to Michal Pěchouček to interview him on the topic of cybercriminals adapting to coronavirus.
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How to prevent manipulation with artificial intelligence? That was the topic of Forbes article about Resistant AI, a startup founded by our researcher Martin Rehák that received a large investment from Index and Credo Ventures.
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TechCrunch reported about the $2.75M investment in Martin Rehák's startup Resistant AI. The company sells an additional layer of protection that’s specifically designed for tightening security around automated functions such as credit risk scoring and anti-money laundering by using tech to detect fake documents that feed such systems.
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Michal Pěchouček was interviewed by the British Verdict about his new role as Avast's CTO and emerging technologies in the field of security.
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The research paper "On Model Evaluation under Non-constant Class Imbalance" by Jan Brabec and Tomáš Komárek got accepted to the A-rate conference ICCS 2020. Great success!
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Jiří Kubík designed a test tube opener manufactured on a 3D printer. The tool, originally designed for the Na Bulovce Hospital, is already used by seven Czech laboratories and can be printed free of charge by anyone!
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Tomáš Krajník from the chronorobotics laboratory introduced our Covid-19 project Fremen contra COVID on the Czech TV (April 25). Find out more about this activity and download our app FreMEn Adviser to plan your day with minimal risk of crowded places!
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Tomáš Krajník introduced our new project FreMEn contra COVID in an online discussion organized by Paralelní Polis. Watch the recording and find out more about the developed app that uses spatio-temporal models to deploy social distancing measures.
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Pražský deník wrote an article on our new app FreMEn Adviser (Nebojsa) that helps its users avoid crowds and follow the social distancing measures.
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HOT NEWS!!! Our AI-powered app FreMEn Adviser is finally out. This tool developed in the Chronoroborics Laboratory will advise you when to go to public places to meet as few people as possible. Avoid regularly crowded shops, parks and playgrounds and lower the risk of getting infected with Covid-19 or other diseases.
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Tomáš Krajník will have an online seminar about the new project FreMEn contra COVID as part of the Science Café series organized by the Czech Centre in London. Join the lecture online for free on April 16.
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Our Chronorobotics Laboratory is fighting Covid epidemic by developing an app using artificial intelligence and anonymized data collection. The project FreMEn contra Covid is based on community-driven data, therefore we call for your participation! Furter info in the article [Czech].
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Tomáš Krajník will introduce his new project FreMEn contra COVID in the online Corona Nights series. The event is organized by Paralelní Polis on April 14 and is streamed online at 20:00.
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Jakub Sláma, researcher in AI Center and master student of Cybernetics and Robotics program, was interviewed by ČT24 about our new initiative for automated Covid-19 testing process. We cooperate on the project with CIIRC, Faculty of Natural Science Charles University and Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR. If everything runs well, we might deploy our algorithm in Motol hospital. Watch at 0:15:39.
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Tomáš Krajník and Jan Bláha were interviewed by Lupa.cz about our new FreMEn contra COVID projet that aims to implement the measures of social distancing via a recommending app. When should you visit places to avoid crowds? Read the article and find out how we determine that.
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We are developing an algorithm for pipetting robots that will help automate coronavirus testing at the Motol University Hospital. It is designed to allow pipetting robots to handle samples quickly and safely, avoiding cross-contamination.
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Karel Drbal from IDA research group advised the readers of Echo.24 how to fight the coronavirus pandemic: It is essential to inform, test as much as possible and isolate only the ones infected and the risk groups, so that we can treat as few severe patients with COVID-19 as possible.
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Karel Drbal from IDA research group talked on the renowned DVTV show about the Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from his interest in data science, Karel is also recognized as a leading immunologist expert. Through his scientific background, he offers an interesting and rather unusual insight into the current situation.
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Mortality from coronavirus will eventually be comparable to seasonal flu, says the immunologist and IDA researcher Karel Drbal in his new interview for iHNed.cz.
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CTU-CRAS group that won the DARPA SubT Challenge among the non-sponsored teams received the award for Project of the Year 2019 at the AI Awards ceremony. Also, our joint conference with Avast CyberSec & AI Prague won Event of the Year 2019. article at iHNed.cz.
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How does coronavirus behave compared to other pandemic diseases and what can we do to protect ourselves in the long run? Immunologist and data scientist Karel Drbal who joined our department in 2019 (IDA group) answered in an extensive interview for Echo24.cz.
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How to avoid crowds and queues in shops? Our new app will tell you by analyzing anonymous data of concentration and making the best schedule to run your arrends. Find out more about our FreMEn contra COVID project on Lidovky.cz.
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Tomáš Krajník introduced our new project FreMEn contra COVID on Český rozhlas (Czech Radio). Listen to his interview to find out how to maintain social distancing with our new app.
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Aktuálně.cz interviewed Tomáš Krajník and Jan Bláha about the FreMEn contra COVID project which aims to protect people against coronavirus by developing a social distancing app.
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STILL research group participates in the new project HistoryLab that offers a distance tool for teachers and students.
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The spring issue of Forbes NEXT offers an interview with our researcher Michal Čáp who is developing self-driving trucks in Boston-based startup iSee and a commentary by Michal Pěchouček about AI ethics in medicine.
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Jan Bayer developed a software for an autonomous walking robot that could save human lives in the future when deployed in rescue missions. Read about this project in the TechEdu magazine (page 4-6).
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How does our brain change due to technological evolution and the tools we use? Michal Pěchouček, Director of AI Center, was quoted by Aktuálně.cz which reported about the NF Neuron conference Science Fueling Modern Business.
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Our cross-department team won at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit among self-funded teams and scored 3rd overall. This marks a great succes for the Czech robotics research!
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TV Prima reported about our success at MBZIRC 2020 where we won the first place thanks to our autonomous drones and a ground robot. Watch the full story at 37:46.
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Czech TV reported about our PhD student Jan Bayer who won IT SPY competition with his software for autonomous walking robot (hexapod) and successfully tested it at DARPA SubTChallenge where we won among self-funded teams.
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We won the first place at MBZIRC 2020! Our autonomous drones and ground robots in Abu Dhabi have once again proved to be the world leaders.
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JOB ALERT! We are seeking curious students for our ŠKODA AUTO project. Join us to build the future of mobility!
Open Positions
AI Center has a new profile on the career website Cocuma that aims to present amazing company cultures. Look inside our center and join the team!
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IDA research group is organizing a seminar with a special guest Vladimir Shikhman from the Technische Universität Chemnitz Germany. It will take place on Wednesday February 19 from 14:30 in KN:E-205. Everyone is welcome!
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Find out how to get a scholarship for Grace Hopper Celebration 2020, how to introduce yourself in 30 seconds and get a dream job.
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Diego Oliva from the University of Guadalajara will have a seminar Metaheuristic Algorithms for Image Segmentation: Theory and Applications on Monday, February 17.
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Our students and researchers will defend last year's success at the next edition of DARPA robotic competition on February 18-27. Cross your fingers for the CTU-CRAS-NORLAB team!
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Michal Pěchouček, director of our AI Center, talked to the LP Life online magazine about the transformation of labour market, threats the AI tech poses and Prague as future AI superhub.
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On February 13, or CS seminar will host a special guest: prof. Stefan Edelkamp from King's College London.
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We have released Should I Click, a machine learning based tool to analyze if a URL is safe to click. This tool was developed by František Střasák from Stratosphere Lab and is free to use.
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Come to the guest talk Learning Sum-Product Networks by Martin Trapp (from the Graz University of Technology) that will take place on January 30 (14:30).
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Central Europe has a lot to offer to foreign investors in terms of research infrastructure and experts. We just need to encourage risk-taking and creativity! Read the full report from the conference on smart investments organized at Ministry of Industry and Trade where Michal Pěchouček presented our cooperation with private sector.
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The Research Center for Informatics (RCI) formed by FEE and FIT scientists organized the first offsite in year 2020. This time the group went to Monínec (Sedlec-Prčice) and share the newest research results at a two-day conference.
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Michal Pěchouček will introduce his vision of Prague as AI Superhub at the next Startup Grind on 22. 1. 2020.
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New results from AAICL – our joint laboratory with Avast! We have released IoT-23, the first dataset with real malware and benign IoT network traffic that will encourage the development of new detection models to protect our smart homes.
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Michal Pěchouček, director of our AI Center, discussed what AI adds to human lives with the chess master Garry Kasparov at DLD 2020.
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On Thursday January 16 we will welcome a special guest Lukáš Adam who will give a seminar on Mathematical Optimization in Applications.
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Our AI researchers will participate in the the AI Science Café Series discussions organized by the Czech Centre in London.
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Blesk newspaper interviewed Viliam Lisý about research in AI, its resemblance to a human brain and future opportunities this tool can bring.
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Daniel Fišer's research paper was accepted to the prestigious AAAI 2020 conference on artificial intelligence in New York!
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Deník N talked to Michal Pěchouček about artificial intelligence, school mathematics, the impact of photography on the climate crisis and the dilemma between security and freedom - which he believes is not really a dilemma.
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Tomáš Krajník will give a habilitation lecture on December 11, 2019 where he will present his habilitation thesis on Long-term Mobile Robot Autonomy in Changing Environments.
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One of the largest Argentine newspaper Clarín reported about our researchers Sebastián and Veronica who lead the cybersecurity Stratosphere Lab titled “Story of the Argentine couple who runs a global laboratory from Europe to fight against viruses and fake news.”
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Our researchers (Stratosphere IPS) will present the recent discovery of dangerous Geost botnet at Black Hat Europe 2019 in London.
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Martin Schaefer presented his smart mobility research at Studenta Automotive Party (November 28). More about his thoughts on ride sharing in selfdriving cars can be found in this conference report.
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Beautigul profile on Thomas O'Hara who moved to Prague to pursue an engineering degree at FEE CTU while working as a researcher in our Stratosphere Lab.
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Head of our AI Center Michal Pěchouček was interviewed for the notable Respekt magazine about the influence of AI on our everyday life and freedom of decesion making.
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Our joint lab with Avast titled Avast AI and Cybersecurity Laboratory (AAICL) got the attention of the CzechCrunch website!
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Our cybersecurity experts Veronica Valeros and Sebastián García were interviewed by Hospodářské noviny (print issue) about Argentina, women in IT and the responsibility of scientific research.
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Our researcher Niklas Heim receives the best thesis awards from the Danish Society for Computer Science.
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On Monday, November 18 at 16:15, Tomáš Pevný will give a lecture on Future Directions in Steganography and Steganalysis.
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BIG NEWS! We are establishing a joint laboratory with Avast (AAICL) to forster research in the field of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
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Branislav Bošanský participated in a panel "Computing and Games: Look into the Future" at GameSec 2019, where his co-authored paper received an award for Outstanding Student Paper.
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Michal Pěchouček as the new Avast's CTO gave an interview for Hospodářské Noviny together with his boss, Avast's CEO Ondřej Vlček.
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Jonathan Ledgard gave an interview about "climate anxiety", digital identity of animals and imagination as a solution to many problams of humanity.
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We invite you to AI Marathon – set of three evening seminars (October 29-31) about AI introducing the research, projects and opportunities at our AI Center.
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We invite you to a tech conference CyberSec & AI Prague co-organized by CTU and Avast on October 25, 2019.
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Our security researchers together with Avast discovered a group of hackers that infected 800 000 users with malware through Geost Botnet.
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The CivilSphere project (Stratosphere Lab, AIC) provides free services to people at risk to detect targeted cyber security threats.
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Aposemat is a joint project of Stratosphere Lab and Avast Software company to create, publish and analyze malware attacks on IoT devices.
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Our researcher Ondřej Lukáš will present his Ludus project at Studenta Cyber Party (October 17).
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Michal Pěchouček, head of our AI center, talked to Český Rozhlas Plus about the importance of critical thinking, values of our university and different ways to measure scientific impact.
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Pavel Pačes provided a tutorial lecture at Digital Avionics Systems Conference in San Diego, USA related to use of Artificial Intelligence in Avionics.
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Even the popular Honest Guide recommends studying in the Czech Republic. Check out their new video with our graduate Denis Rozumnyi.
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Viliam Lisý was interviewd by Mall TV about AI-based algorithm that defeated human players in Poker for the first time. He developed it with fellow researchers from Prague (CTU, Charles University) and University of Alberta.
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Our researchers involved in the EU-funded Research Center for Informatics (RCI) met in Kutná Hora to present their research results.
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Our visiting professor Jonathan Ledgard was interviewed by The New Yorker and shared his thoughts on the importance of imagination.
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Šimon Mandlík, master student from our Open Informatics study program, won a prestigious UPE Award. Congratulations!
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Our US Air Force project is looking for new students! Join our team to work or do your thesis in planning, game theory and AI.
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Our CS Seminar on September 10 will welcome a guest speaker Eslam Amer who will talk about an exciting topic From Malware Detection to Fake News Detection.
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We hosted a summer school introducing cybersecurity research methods and related topics (i.e. communication) to our students and researchers.
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Our team CTU-CRAS wins DARPA Subterranean Challenge (Tunnel Circuit) 2019 as a sel-funded team (and finishes third out of all the participants).
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After three days of DARPA SubT Challenge, we are on the 3rd place. Check out how we did in the underground rescue missions.
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CS Seminar on August 15 will welcome Li Sun (Kevin) from University of Oxford. Come to his tak "Deep Learning for the Robot to Think Fast".
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We are releasing the project Ludus which aims at improving the security of Turris routers. This research is funded by the Technological Agency of the Czech Republic and is a joint project of the Stratosphere team and CZ.NIC association.
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Follow our IoT Honeypot Analysis Series, in which members of our Stratosphere team blog about the Aposemat project research.
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Zhi Yan from the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard will join our CS Seminar on August 8, 2019, .
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Jilles S. Dibangoye from INSA Lyon will give a talk about Planning and Learning in Partially Observable Stochastic Games on August 7 (14:30).
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Umotional placed second in the Smart Pedal Pitch organized at the international cycling conference Velo-City 2019 in Dublin.
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Jan Faigl gave a talk at the 2nd Workshop on Informative Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling at RSS 2019.
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The Institute of Physical Education and Sport wants to add a simple SW element to their website. Will you help?
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Research center for informatics revealed the most powerful cluster for AI research in the Czech Republic. We are so proud to be on this project!
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We invite you to the 44th Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision Colloquium organized by the Center for Machine Perception (CMP).
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We are in the Science! Our WhyCon method was used to localize the swarm robots in an intuitive Human-Swarm Interaction framework.
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We participate in the prestigious SingularityU Czech Summit! Our researcher Viliam "Vilo" Lisý, who deals mostly with game theory, will talk alongside the greatest Silicon vallery experts.
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Michal Pěchouček, head of our depatment, was invited as a guest to Fokus Václava Moravce. The topic was Artificial Intelligence and you can watch the whole show online if you missed it.
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We are eager to welcome new colleagues in our team. Check out the recently open positions and do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions.
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Our Artificial Intelligence Center is a proud sponsor of this year's BSideBUD - International IT Security Conference. The event will take place on March 28, 2019 in Budapest.
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Nominate your PhD research for Joseph Fourier Prize before March 29 and win up to 60 000 CZK and a scholarship for a one-month internship in France of your choice.
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Michal Pěchouček, head of our depatment, was invited as a guest to Fokus Václava Moravce. The show will be broadcasted live on the channel CT24 on March 19, 8:00 p. m.
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Tomáš Pevný gave a lecture at a very prestigious Lancing College in England. The topic was Steganography (the practice of concealing a message, image, or video within another file).
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Michal Čáp from the Smart Urban Mobility team participated in the seminar organized by Eurocentrum Praha. The main topic was the use of AI in transportation.
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We cooperate with the Czech Government on the AI impact analysis. The output if this cooperation is a study titled "Research of the potential of artificial intelligence development in the Czech Republic" aiming to help the Czech Republic respond to global and European AI activities and find its place on the global market.
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Michal Pěchouček in Deník.cz about how we will live in the future, what job positions will disappear from the labour market and who plays the key role in decision making concerning AI. (Interview in Czech only).
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Our paper titled Privacy Leakage of Search-based Multi-Agent Planning Algorithms has been accepted for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019) See you in Berkeley, CA in July!
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We are looking for Master students, who would be interested in teaching Bachelor courses. All the materials will be prepared for you, so your task will be comming to the classes and helping the students understand the topics. This is a great way to improve your presentation skills! And do not worry, you would only teach in Czech. We can offer you a position of teaching assistant in form of scholarship or part-time contract. Get in touch with Jirka Šebek (sebekji1@fel.cvut.cz) to find out more or fill in this form.
Open Positions
What will the future of journalism be like when AI comes in place? Our researchers will explore that in a new project together with scientists from Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and ČTK (Czech Press Office). The primary objective of the research is the emergence of AI system that will generate texts for further intelligence use.
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Michal Pěchouček will participate at the Digital Czech Republic Conference 2019. He will be part of the panel discussion "Czech Republic as AI Heart of Europe", that takes place on February 7, 2019.
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CTU students placed 7th out of 76 teams in the Kaggle Days competition on January 26, 2019. Two Open Informatics students, Elnaz Babayeva and Anastasia Lebedeva, and a Data Management Specialist from Stains, UK, Evgeniy Markin, formed a team called #nukaktotak and competed with Masters and GrandMasters submissions from all over the world in an 11-hours hackathon. It was their first participation in Kaggle competition and already such a success - congratulations!
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Team IDA announces a new support! PhD student Giuseppe Marra from the University of Firenze and University of Siena will join the researchers from January to March 2019. He studies Smart Computing and his research activities are focused on machine learning and its applications for the development of conversational agents. If you want to meet him in person, come to the lecture that he will give on January 17!
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We are happy to welcome Prof. Joe Song from New Mexico State University in the Department of Computer Science. He will join Prof. Filip Železný's Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) Research Group within the Fulbright Program from January 20, 2019. Students will have the chance to meet him in the Bioinformatics course at which he will participate during the Summer Semester 2018/2019. Welcome in Prague, Joe Song!
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Stratosphere Lab is looking for a Network Security Analyst. If you have Python developing skills and want to protect NGOs from digital threats, come work with us. We offer 500 EUR/month and participation on a prestigious project that has real impact!
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Congratulations to the team consisting of Olga Kholkovskaia (OI), Aleksandra Pravednikova (SIT), Martin Schaefer, David Fiedler and Michal Čáp. We are so proud of you!
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Members of AIC succeeded recently in highly selective paper review process of the top Artificial Intelligence conference AAAI-19. Although this year rejection rate was roughly 16%, AIC got accepted 4 papers in various topics of game theory, automated planning and security.
Congratulation to Daniel Fišer, Jaromír Janisch, Karel Horák and Lukáš Chrpa