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We Live IT: Recordings of lectures are available online

The We Live IT conference, which took place online last week, offered seventeen specialised topics, meetings with ten graduates and six e-stands. At the event, which aims to introduce students to interesting topics, technologies and procedures in IT, twenty speakers presented their work to over 140 participants. For example, they talked about modern methods of software development and deployment, the basics of chatbots, artificial intelligence or smart robots. Recordings of most of the lectures are now available on the conference's website.

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The VGS-IT series returns to the faculty, at least in a virtual form. The first lecture will be given by Srikanth Madikeri

Invited Talks on Vision, Graphics return to the faculty. The VGS-IT lecture series, which already introduced many world-famous personages from the fields of computer vision, graphics and speech processing give lectures at FIT, is returning after a "covid break", at least in a virtual form. Srikanth Madikeri from the Swiss research institute IDIAP accepted the invitation to speak on Monday, 8 March. His talk will be about speech recognition for languages with little training data and the LF-MMI method. Everybody is welcome to attend; for more information, visit the VGS-IT website.

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FIT doctoral student looks for bugs causing apps to "freeze"

Every day, we rely on the flawless functioning of dozens, if not hundreds, of applications and programs running on our computers, be they web browsers, information systems, communications software, or a multitude of hidden programs running in the background. We have come to expect applications not only not to crash suddenly, but also to respond very quickly to our commands. However, every user has experienced a situation where a new update to an important app caused it to slow down noticeably or even freeze up completely. This is exactly what Jiří Pavela, a doctoral student from the Faculty of Information Technology of Brno University of Technology, who is also one of the awardees in the Brno Ph.D. Talent competition, wants to prevent. You can read more in the article

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How to land on the Moon? A FIT student's simulation successful in the 8 of BUT competition

It has been more than 48 years since humans last walked on the surface of the Moon. A potential return to the Moon has recently become a frequently discussed topic and it attracted the attention of Jakub Karpíšek, a FIT student, who decided to research this area as part of his Bachelor's thesis. The jurors of the 8 of BUT were fascinated by his lunar landing simulation and awarded him a second place in the competition. You can find more in the article

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Applicants for study can tour the campus with the Dean of the FIT through a video; the BUT campaign is about saving the world

What will our future look like? This is the question posed by the new recruitment campaign of Brno University of Technology. The campaign places the video's protagonist in a post-apocalyptic world and shows him that he can improve the world thanks to the knowledge and skills acquired at Brno University of Technology. The video also shows locations, a robot and a simulator from the Faculty of Information Technology and much more. The faculty has also prepared a series of videos through which the applicants can take a tour of the campus together with the Dean of FIT, learn more about the programmes, life or research at the faculty, and listen to graduates and employees talking about their experiences. You can see the full video HERE.

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