Department in media:
Interview with Mgr. Viliam Lisý, an assistant professor at CTU, Department of Computer science.
A scientist who worked with the team, which taught the robot intuition and bluffing in poker.
Do we have to be afraid of losing control of robots and their revolution against humans, how we can see in many sci-fi movies, or books? It is a fantasy, or could it be the reality?
Privacy Preserving Multi-Agent Planning
Member of our departement - Antonín Komenda and his team Michal Štolba, Daniel Fišer and Michaela Urbanovská were awarded the GAČR grant.
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Lohnatan Ledgard - visiting proffeseur at our departement - was the host in internet television - DVTV.
He talks about future of Afrika - advanced civilization and dirty wather.
We are really honored that we can have this iconic man around us. What a pleasure.
Visiting Fulbright scholar Joe Song will give a lecture on February 14, 2019. The topic of this lecture, that takes place within the IDA seminars cycle, will be Model-free Methods for Inferring Networks in Molecular Biological Systems. Everyone is welcome
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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STILL (Software Testing IntelLigent Lab) is a new research lab within the Department of Computer Science dedicated to research in software testing and search based software engineering.
Tomáš Krajník and his team were hosts in the ICRA 2018 Workshop in Australia.
With cooperation with CMU, Oxford, and QUT, they had a workshop on the topic - long-term autonomy of mobile robots.
Thank you for your representation!
Sebastián García and his article in the magazin VESMÍR
Forenzní analýza kybernetických útoků chrání občanskou společnost.
Viet Code organizuje bezplatné letní intenzivní kurzy IT a programování pro vybrané nadšence. Zaměřujeme se na inovativní efektivní vzdělávání v oblasti IT a programování.
Jsme moc rádi, že jsme i letos mohli nabídnout pomocnou ruku k dílu a na této výjimečné akci spolupracovat!
Departement in media - Jiří Vokřínek & Johnatan Ledgard
Our professors were the honest guests at the conference " JÁ, ROBOT".
RSS 2018 best student paper finalist to Petr Váňa
Paper of our Ph.D. student Petr Váňa and his supervisor Jan Faigl has been nominated for the best student paper award at prestigious conference RSS 2018 held in Pittsburgh. The title of the paper is "Optimal solution of the Generalized Dubins Interval Problem."
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Departement in media:
Sebastian Garcia PhD from the Stratosphere Lab of the AIC center in FEE, was interviewed by the Czech National television about the cyber-attack against the Winter Olympic Games organization. This attack used servers in Czech Republic with the goal of stealing information.
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.
DeepMind is ready to share more information on their StarCraft research through an exciting livestream demonstration! Watch it on their youtube channel on Thursday 7:00 p.m. to learn what developments have been made. You won’t want to miss it!
Do you wanna join our team?
We are searching you!
We are opening a new position. You have possibility which won't last a long time. Do not miss it!
Interview with Prof. Michal Pěchouček, head of departement of Computer Science, in Hospodářské noviny. ( only in Czech)
31.01.2018, Hospodářské noviny
Department in media:
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)
People of ACM European Chapters.
"People of ACM European Chapters" highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM chapter members in Europe who are making a difference in advancing computing as a science and a profession.
Congratulations to doc. Ing. Karel Richta, CSc.
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
Dr. Yufei Han will give a lecture on February 25, 2019 in KN:E-205. The topic of his talk will be Life of PI: Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning. Everyone is welcome!
AIC team - Martin Schaefer, David Fiedler & Michal Čáp won the 3rd price in Smart Mobility Hackathon 2018 !
Our congratulations for you guys!!
Česko čeká zkouška. Buď na vývoj technologií zareaguje, nebo ho nástup robotů porazí. Systémově zatím nemá moc nakročeno, i u nás ale vyrostli lidé, kteří na poli umělé inteligence patří mezi světové špičky. Jedním z nich je Michal Pěchouček z ČVUT, který prodal úspěšný start-up jedné z největších firem světa – Cisco. „V budoucnu bude hrát větší roli empatie. I vůči strojům a algoritmům. Budeme muset umět rozumět tomu, jak program uvažuje,“ myslí si Pěchouček.
Rozhovor s Viliamem Lisým na téma nedávné pokroky v oblasti UI, DeepStack a jeho možné aplikace, rizika UI.
18:53 - 23:47
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/10659215431-online
The member of our departement - DR. BESTOUN S. AHMED AL-BEYWANEE, PH.D. - was last week a host in conference DEVCONF.cz
Departement in media - Prof. Pěchouček - Český rozhlas, Leonardo - věda a technika
The head of our department prof. Dr. Michal Pěchouček, MSc. was a host in Czech radio - studio Leonardo.
In his speech, he talks about internet attacks, evolutions of programs, which can detect the danger before it appears.
Sebastian García gives a workshop in DEFCON (LA) !
The AI Village at DEFCON is a place where experts in AI and security (or both!) can come together to learn and discuss the use, and misuse, of artificial intelligence in traditional security. Artificial Learning techniques are rapidly being deployed in core security technologies like malware detection and network traffic analysis, but their use has also opened up a variety of new attack vectors against the systems that use them.
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Dvakrát ročně (leden/únor a listopad/prosinec) pro vás v rámci Dne otevřených dveřípřipravujeme prezentaci OI a projektů kateder, které se podílejí na výuce OI.
Na fotky z této akce se můžete podívat ve fotogalerii.
Těšíme se na vás v pátek 1. prosince 2017 od 8:30 až do 15 hod. na Karlově náměstí 13, Praha 2, areál ČVUT v Praze, Fakulta elektrotechnická.
Sebastian Basterrech is invited keynote of the Fourth Euro-China
Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications, that will be
held 9th October in Málaga, Spain.
Prof. Pěchouček, garant Otevřená informatika FEL ČVUT v pořadu Hyde Park Civilizace o nebezpečí, výzvách, kybernetice, práci budoucnosti učení a mnohém dalším – i o projektech a svých kolezích jako Jan Faigl, Tomáš Krajník, Michal Čáp, Sebastian Garcia, Viliam Lisý – to navíc se dvěma „šestinohými bestiemi“ z Katedra počítačů FEL ČVUT ve studiu Česká televize.
Long non-coding RNAs in myelodysplastic syndromes: clinical relevance and implication in the pathogenesis
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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).
The Department of Computer science, FEL, CTU is opening new courses for and University of the third age.
Rozhovor Michala Pěchoučka o nově vzniklém projektu RCI - Research Center for Informatics v Lidových novinách.
Department in media:
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 goal is to provide quality education in information technology. In our two main study programs Open Informatics and Software management, we educate students on bachelor and master level to become qualified professionals and experts, who easily find their place on the job market or continue gaining more knowledge on graduate level.
How to win a trip around the world using C ++ ?
Come and listen how to write the most efficient algorithm to NP-hard problem on real flight ticket, costs data from Kiwi.
Congratulation to our Ph.D. student Petr Váňa !!
When? 29.11.2018 ,18:00 - 19:30
Where? CTU FEE, KN:E-301
Departement in media : Michal Pěchouček - Artifical intelligence - Will it give or take our job?
Interview with prof. Michal Pěchouček in VESMÍR.
In this article, he talks about Artificial Intelligence in the future time. What will bring the coming years?
Seminar with George Deriso - Adjunct Professor, Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado.
29/11/2018
10:00
KN: E-205
Fire site chat about whys, dos and don´ts when building up startup in America.
Odborník na umělou inteligenci z ČVUT Michal Pěchouček odmítá, že se umělá inteligence vymkne kontrole a zakročí proti lidstvu. Její rozvoj ale podle něj povede k novému přerozdělení bohatství na světě. Nově budou kvůli umělé inteligenci země bohaté a chudé na práci. Aby se na změny vyvolané chytrými algoritmy a automatizací Česko připravilo, mělo by podle něj reformovat vzdělávací systém.
We believe that NGOs' work is a critical asset for our society, protecting human rights and civil liberties. It is their critical work that makes them a highly valuable political target for a wide variety of powerful actors. The end result is a continuous flow of attacks and technical abuse. Usually struggling for financial support for their causes, how can they protect themselves? At the CTU University, we took a step forward to help them.
The project has now its new website and social identity, offers 4 different free services to help NGOs and people at risk, and it's currently helping 8 organizations and more than 20 individuals across Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Check the project page at www.civilsphereproject.org.
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Department in media:
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)
Letní boot camp
pro studenty s velmi malou či žádnou předchozí znalostí programování.
Další podrobnosti o průběhu kurzu
Registrační formulář pro rok 2018
Our team consisting of PhD students Gustav Šourek, Martin Svatoš and their supervisor Filip Železný (all from the IDA group) with their Cardiff fellows Stephen Shockaert and Ondřej Kuželka (former IDA member) was awarded the best-paper award for their new advancement of the original concept of Lifted Relational Neural Networks. This research is currently supported by the Czech Science Foundation."
Vážení studenti. Srdečně Vás zveme na prezentaci magisterských oborů, která proběhne 11.01.2018 od 15:00.
Celá akce je otevřená veřejnosti.
Přijďte si vybrat z bohaté nabídky !
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!
Here we are again !
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On the occasion of 50th anniversary of the computer mouse invention, patented by visionary Douglas Engelbart in 1968, Bozena Mannova from our department is the guest of Studio 6 and remembers the beginnings and changes of the famous computer tool - computer mouse.
June 21th 2017, Studio 6 (in czech)
Security issue Spectre/Meltdown: exploiting the CPU
Expected length: 2 hours
Presenter: Jiří Benc, Linux Kernel Developer at Red Hat
Red Hat Open Source Lab, E228
24.01.2018 , 14:00
Poznejte katedru počítačů.
Centrum umělé inteligence (AIC), laboratoř datové analýzy (IDA) a laboratoř softwarového testování (STILL) vás zvou na předvánoční setkání určené pro studenty bakalářských a magisterských programů. ( SIT, OI, KYR).
O tom, jaké to je pracovat na katedře vám poví :
Michal Pěchouček
Jan Nykl
Jiří Čermák
Jiří Šebek.
11.12.2018 , 16:15, KN:E-301
Lukas Chrpa received a grant from The Office of Naval Research (ONR) for his participation in Rapid Environment Picture (REP) experiments focusing on operations of multiple heterogeneous autonomous vehicles, organized by Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática (LSTS) in Portugal.
Department in media:
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)
We wish you a Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Thank you all for your participation to make this year, successful year.
We are happy to have you!
We are thrilled to have Nikita Gupta, co-founder and CTO of Symba, visiting us in Prague! On August 6th, she will give a talk at the Czech Technical University about her startup, experiences, and how she got started. Join us!
06/08/2018, 16:00 , KN:E - 112,
The study of AI techniques for games of imperfect information - algorithm DeepStack - was published in Science in March 2017 (online) and in May (in the print).
DeepStack became the first AI capable of beating professional poker players at heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
DeepStack was jointly developed by an international team: Charles University (Matfyz),The Czech Technical University (Dept. of Computer Science at FEE) and the University Alberta (Computer Poker Research Group) in Edmonton, Canada.
Congratulations to all successful bachelor and master degree graduates.
The graduation ceremony will take place in the Betlemské kapli on 29 and 30 August 2018.
From January 2017 we are starting four years TACR project „Quality Assurance System for Internet of Things Technology“ in coopearation with RedHat Czech Republic.
A project on combinatorial design of multi-lock systems funded by the Czech Technology Agency
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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.
Department in media:
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 project Intelligent composite anchor is created with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic under the program TRIO. The main objective of the project is the research of the possibilities and development of a composite anchor element, which will be integrated with electronic sensors. The project will be solved in the period 2016-2019.
Jan Faigl was awarded Best poster honorable mention by IJCNN for the poster On Self-Organizing Maps for Orienteering Problems.
Our Department has widened its research portfolio thanks to the arrival of new Assistant Professor Pavel Pačes, a specialist in aerospace systems. The new team of Pavel Pačes is doing research in avionics: guidance and navigation, training, system monitoring.
New GAČR project (2017-2019) by Tomáš Krajník: Spatio Temporal Representations for Life-Long Mobile Robot Navigation
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Representatives from AI Center researching in the field of Distributed operation of heterogeneous autonomous unmanned vehicles (team of Milan Rollo and Přemysl Volf) introduced the research results on IDET 2017 (International Defence and Security Technologies Fair).
Raman Samusevich, student of OI FEL, won the 2. place in the prestigious competition IT SPY. The supervisor of his thesis was Viliam Lisy.
New subject for master students:
Úvod do zpracování přirozeného jazyka (Introduction to Natural Language Processing).
FEL ČVUT in Prague and FIT VUT in Brno are the best czech universities in IT.
The magazine Hospodarske noviny brings an evaluation of czech universities.
Jakub Marecek, Czech researcher from IBM in Dublin, joined our Department as an external staff member and will supervise PhD students.
The Faculty of Elecrical Engineeering of CTU in Prague rated best among IT schools in the country.
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!
Our partner Red Hat support a position Chair of Software Engineering. The competition for the assistent professor position in sofware engineering gained a researcher from Kurdistan. (press release in czech)
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.
A number of articles of our researchers was accepted in prestigious scientific journals.
NEW:
Jakob, M., Malcolm E.: Market mechanism design for profitable on-demand transport services
New international Horizon 2020 ELECTRIFIC project in the Artificial Intelligence for Transport and Mobility group, AIC.
The project will solve:
Context-aware travel planning and scheduling algorithms for electric vehicles
Market-based charging capacity allocation and demand management mechanisms for electric vehicles
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Student Starcraft AI Tournament is an educational event organized by Michal Čertický from our dept. since 2011. It serves as a challenging competitive environment for students of AI and Computer Science, as well as other AI and Broodwar enthousiasts. They are submitting the bots, which are programmed in C++ or Java using the custom API BWAPI to play 1v1 StarCraft matches against one another.
Anyone can submit a bot and play, but only individual students can score points. Lets try it!
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.
Free ISTQB Certifications for the best students of the software testing subjects
Starting with the winter semester of 2017 the selected best students of the software testing subjects will be offered to take the ISTQB certification exam for free: ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level and the ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester.
The offer is donated by the Czech and Slovak Testing Board (CaSTB).
Since 2013 an elite association UPE has its branch at the Czech technical university in Prague, bringing together excellent students from the fields of IT. Right now new members are recruited. UPE Council plans to offer membership and benefits of the association to 20 new students in computer science. The standards for selection are not only an excellent study results, but also publications, participation in conferences, awards or activity in promotion of science.
Czech TV brought a reportage from czech UPE.(in czech only)
AgentFly is an agent-based system for a large scale air traffic simulation. It is able to simulate tens of thousands airplanes in detail, e.g. to compute fuel consumption. It also models cognitive behavior of air traffic controllers to simulate their activities and workload. The AgentFly can be used to simulate complete air traffic over US to predict future air traffic
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Prof. Michael Bowling, head of Computer Poker Research Group, who stood behind the research of AI program DeepStack, that won in Poker against the human players visited Prague and hold a serie of lectures here.
Video and the photos of the lecture.
In Computation Game Theory we study and design new algorithms for finding optimal behavior in finite sequential scenarios, where agents have to deal with limited information, uncertainty, and competing opponents. Typical examples include classical card and board games, scenarios from the security domain, or auctions
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Summer School on Autonomous Navigation of Hexapod Crawling Robots 8.8.-11.8.2017, Computational Robotics Laboratory.
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!
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.
We are looking for Master students, who would be interested in teaching Bachelor courses starting March 1, 2019. 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.
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.
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!
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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