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Avast funded position in Cybersecurity at Artificial Intelligence Center, Czech Technical University in Prague Artificial Intelligence Center from the Czech Technical University in Prague is opening an international call for applications for the position in Cybersecurity funded by Avast in the rank of either postdoctoral scientist, assistant or associated professor leading toward a tenure track contract.
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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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Summer boot camp 2017 (LETNÍ PROGRAMÁTORSKÝ KURZ) before semester for new students with no or basic knowledge in programming.
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Michal Pěchouček - the youngest candidate for the Rector of ČVUT.
How will our head of department succeed in the upcoming elections?
Bellow, you can find his program.
You have our support, Michal!
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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.
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The Department of Computer science, FEL, CTU is opening new courses for and University of the third age.
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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.
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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."
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INTERNSHIP IN BAVARIA! – 2018/2019
• One year internship with possibility of 3 years extension
• Master´s degree, Ph.D. studies, Post-doctoral studies
• Bavarian Public College
• 735 € for month
• Deadline 1.12.2017
• More info at http://www.btha.cz/cs/stipendia/studium-v-bavorsku
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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.
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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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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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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).
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From January 2017 we are starting four years TACR project „Quality Assurance System for Internet of Things Technology“ in coopearation with RedHat Czech Republic.
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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.
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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.
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New GAČR project (2017-2019) by Tomáš Krajník: Spatio Temporal Representations for Life-Long Mobile Robot Navigation
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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
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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.
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Jan Faigl was awarded Best poster honorable mention by IJCNN for the poster On Self-Organizing Maps for Orienteering Problems.
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A new research project on combinatorial design of keys and locks by Filip Železný supported by TA ČR.
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The Faculty of Elecrical Engineeering of CTU in Prague rated best among IT schools in the country.
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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.
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Jakub Marecek, Czech researcher from IBM in Dublin, joined our Department as an external staff member and will supervise PhD students.
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Raman Samusevich, student of OI FEL, won the 2. place in the prestigious competition IT SPY. The supervisor of his thesis was Viliam Lisy.
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New subject for master students:
Úvod do zpracování přirozeného jazyka (Introduction to Natural Language Processing).
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Novel ways to analyze genomic data
Researchers from the Intelligent Data Analysis team developed new techniques improving computational analysis of gene expression data. To this end, they were able to leverage the known ways that genes regulate each other in bacteria. Their method was published in the journal BMC Bioinformatics.
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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)
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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.
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A number of articles of our researchers was accepted in prestigious scientific journals.
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Jakob, M., Malcolm E.: Market mechanism design for profitable on-demand transport services
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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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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).
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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!
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.