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How to most effectively detect and combat new phenomena in cybercrime was the main topic of a two-day meeting of specialists in this area of crime from the ranks of prosecutors and police officers organized by the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office in cooperation with the Judicial Academy in Kroměříž. Specialist criminologists and prosecutors from all over the Czech Republic meet regularly every year within an informal expert network and exchange experiences. This time, for the first time, they also invited fellow police officers and prosecutors from Slovakia to a joint meeting.

Experts from both countries agreed that specialisation and continuous training is key to effectively combat cybercrime, enabling them to keep up to date with increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics. Such meetings also have the benefit of exchanging specific lessons learned from successful cases.  



One of the biggest challenges is the rapid development of deepfake technology, which brings with it extensive risks associated with the spread of disinformation, identity theft, various types of fraud, phishing attacks or extortion and a range of other illegal activities. The researchers Kamil Malinka and Anton Firc from the Faculty of Information Technology of Brno University of Technology illustrated how credible simulations of foreign faces and voices created by artificial intelligence can be.  

We cordially invite you to the dissertation defence of Ing. Marek Žák entitled Biology-inspired control of a walking robot. Mobile robots are used for a variety of purposes, often in places that would be unthinkable for humans. These include rescue operations or space exploration. Walking robots can move in difficult terrain, but their disadvantages can be energy consumption, slowness of movement, inability to carry heavier loads or difficulty of control.

This dissertation describes the design, construction and control of a novel biology-inspired hexapod robot, WHexaR, that can deal with these obstacles. The full abstract of the thesis is available at this link. 

The work was supervised by Associate Professor František Zbořil and Specialist Supervisor Ing.  Jaroslav Rozman.

The defence will take place on February 28th at 1 pm in meeting room C209 at FIT BUT.

The opponents are prof. Ing. Petr Musilek, Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and Ing. Tomáš Ondráček, Ph.D. from Artin.

We cordially invite you to the next lecture in the VGS Invited Talks @ FIT series, this time by Professor Nakov: Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models. Professor Preslav Nakov, who is based at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, is a world-leading expert in natural language processing. His talk will be held on Thursday, February 29 at 4 pm at FIT in room A112. 

What are the pitfalls of large language models (LLMs)? While they are very powerful, their weakness is working with facts. At best they sometimes get away with making things up, at worst they spread lies and misinformation. Don't miss this lecture on a topical issue, after which there will be space for an informal discussion on the possibilities of cooperation with MBZUAI.


For more detailed information about Professor Nakov's work, please follow this link.