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Profesor Michal Pechoucek was guest of the talk show FOKUS VM on the topic WORK (Z práce do práce). 

The show was about changes in work due to the Industial revolution 4.0 and the implementation of AI. The guests shared their views to the future and the possible changes on the labour market and in the society.

The talk is in czech (prof. Pechoucek speaks from 1hour 20min)

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Viliam Lisý, expert for game theory and cybersecurity, as guest of Sudio 6, speaks about the Wanna Decryptor virus, that attacked PC all over the world in May 2017.

Viliam Lisy answers to following questions: Who the probably creators of the malware are, what they want, how it works or what can we expect regarding updates of virus. 

May 16th 2017, Studio 6, 51:45 (in czech)

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Otázky VM: Who will lose the job on the ground of robots? Guests of this discussion are the Minister of industry and trade, vicepresident of Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic and professor Michal Pěchouček from CVUT. (in czech)

Otázky VM: Kdo přijde kvůli robotům o práci? Téma pro ministra průmyslu a obchodu Jiřího Havlíčka, viceprezidenta Svazu průmyslu a dopravy Radka Špicara a profesora umělé inteligence z ČVUT Michala Pěchoučka. 

Our PhD students, members of Smart Urban Mobility group within AIC, participated in a public student´s competition Mobilita v Praze: Vision of mobility in Prague in 2030. The team of Michal Čáp, Martin Schaefer and David Fiedler won the first place and their proposal came to Institut plánování a rozvoje hl.m. Prahy and to the municipal council.  

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Interview with Michal Pěchouček, head of Department of Computer Science, for Lidove noviny (R.U.R.) about education for changing labour market (only in czech)

Ondřej Hubáček, the Ph.D. student from the IDA lab, won the 2017 Soccer Prediction Challenge.

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Bozena Mannova, a teacher from Dept. of Computer science, as guest of Studio 6 was speaking about safe internet.

We all are in danger, especially through social networks and unknown strange emails/spams. There are few good advice that helps us to reduce the risk.

February 7th 2017, in Studio 6

The dean prof. Ripka appreciated the dissertation thesis of Jan Hrnčíř by Dean’s award. 

Tomas Krajnik was awarded by ACM for the paper "A Versatile High-Performance Visual Fiducial Marker Detection System with Scalable Identity Enconding" at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, track Intelligent Robotics and Multi-agent Systems.

Jan Faigl was awarded Best poster honorable mention by IJCNN for the poster On Self-Organizing Maps for Orienteering Problems. 

Raman Samusevich, student of OI FEL, won the 2. place in the prestigious competition IT SPY. The supervisor of his thesis was Viliam Lisy. 

DeepStack, developed by computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada, with collaborators from Charles University and the Czech Technical University in Prague, beat human pros in heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em. Its a huge success in the field of Game Theory. 

Viliam Lisy from Department of Computer Science was one of the member of Michael Bowling´s Computer Poker Research Group at University of Alberta. 

The robotic team from Dr Martin Saska from the dept. of Cybernetics, FEE CTU gained 1. and 2. place in the disciplines of the prestigious Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) held on 16 and 17 March in Abu Dhabi. 

The preparation for this competition took the whole year for a number of experts from different areas. For the algorithms of planning the drones used research results from the GAČR project Efficient Information Gathering with Dubins Vehicles in Persistent Monitoring and Surveillance Missions.