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His career lasting more than fifty years, Václav Dvořák became immersed in computer technology already at a time when there was only one computer at BUT; he was involved in the development of the first operating memories, greatly contributed to the fact computer science became an independent field of study at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and promoted development of the Institute of Computer Systems at the Faculty of Information Technology. He is also the author of more than two hundred publications and four patents. In November, Professor Václav Dvořák received a gold medal from the Rector of BUT, Petr Štěpánek, for his contribution to the development of computer technology and international co-operation within FIT.

The winners of the 10th round of the IT SPY competition, which selects the most interesting and most innovative IT Master's theses from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, have already been announced. According to the expert jury, the third best work is the project of Dušan Drevický from FIT. It focuses on uncertainty in machine learning models and helps computers identify X-ray images where the computers are not certain with their evaluation.

The World from Space start-up provides a bird's-eye view of the world. Every couple of days, it makes accessible and interprets satellite images of the Earth's surface. Government officials as well as citizens can easily find out which areas in their cities are threatened by droughts or what is the current state of urban vegetation and quality of air. Moreover, photos captured from outer space can be put to great use in agriculture and forestry. Roman Bohovic, the founder of this start-up company and graduate of FIT BUT, wants to support protection of the environment by spreading relevant up-to-date information.

Vojtěch Mrázek of the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT received the most prestigious Czech award for science and research, the Česká hlava award. On Sunday, he accepted the award for his research into intentional errors in integrated circuits.

In co-operation with the ŠKODA AUTO automobile plant in Mladá Boleslav, the Aeroworks research group from the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT developed a unique system enabling the company's technical development staff to design various user interfaces.

In the 120 years of history of Brno University of Technology, only 69 persons received the honorary degree of doctor honoris causa (dr. h. c.). These include, for example, Tomáš G. Masaryk, Nikola Tesla, Tomáš Baťa and Eva Jiřičná. As of yesterday, this list also includes Ralph Ford, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology and Chancellor and Dean of the University of Pen State Behrand, Pennsylvania. A nomination for the award of the doctorate was submitted by the Faculty of Information Technology, which has been closely co-operating with Ford for twenty years.

The decision to dedicate his life to the IT field, whether as CTO and CEO of the Czech antivirus company AVG or as an investor, is not one that Karel Obluk regrets. The graduate of a doctoral programme at FIT BUT recommends that anyone seeking an investor should first and foremost gather facts and provide convincing answers. At the same time, he believes that university education is still very important even at the time of rapid increase in the number of start-ups and young entrepreneurs. In his opinion, millionaires such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who never completed their university studies tend to be the exceptions proving the rule.

One of them was responsible for building the largest Red Hat development centre in the world and the other was able to create an international holding from a small company in Brno. The Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Pavel Zemčík, acknowledged two persons for their contributions to the development of IT in Brno. Merit Medals were presented by the Dean to Radovan Musil, former head of the Red Hat development centre in Brno, and Martin Cígler, co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Solitea holding.

When the batteries of an electric vehicle are almost drained, the vehicle sends a request to any smart buildings in the area that are equipped with solar panels and powerful chargers. According to the predicted energy consumption, the building will decide whether it has the capacity for the approaching vehicle and will guide it to the nearest charging station. This is one of the examples of co-operation between smart devices on which experts from FIT BUT are currently working within the Cross-CPP project, which was also joined by Volkswagen, the automobile manufacturer, and the Czech branch of Siemens, specialising in smart buildings.

All that is needed is to sign your name with a special pen with sensors that collect data on the way you write. The attached 3D printer then manages to create its forged copy. The forgery device, which can imitate the dynamic properties of handwriting, was designed by Jan Pawlus from FIT BUT in co-operation with police handwriting experts. In the future, it should help detect machine signature forgeries.

At the Faculty of Information Technology, Šárka Květoňová is active in teaching and research in the area of project management, economics of information products and strategic management of information systems. Moreover, she has also led the Summer School (F)IT for girls for thirteen years.

Solve a mathematical problem, perform a breathing exercise or prepare an emergency plan in the event of a depression attack. The aim of the Nepanikař (Don't Panic) mobile app is to provide an effective first aid to people suffering from psychological problems. It was created by Veronika Kamenská, a student at FEEC, and Aleš Řezáč and Tomáš Chlubna from FIT BUT. They developed the app with the support of psychologists and psychiatrists. It can also aid healthy people dealing with difficult life situations.

Large foreign companies and investment companies who want to find prospective start-ups and innovative technologies are increasingly turning for help to the Czech Leadspicker project. The project employs a smart algorithm based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. It can search the Internet and find just the start-ups the client is looking for. Leadspicker was developed by two BUT graduates - Vlastimil Vodička from the Faculty of Business and Management and Jan Skácel from the Faculty of Information Technology.

The Faculty of Information Technology of BUT has initiated a new co-operation with Honeywell in the area of aviation navigation system research. By doing so, it follows the memorandum signed by the Rector of Brno University of Technology in January 2019. 

The fifth annual Excel@FIT IT conference organised by the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT introduced nearly sixty student works with the potential to considerably influence the world of information technology in the future. For example, on Thursday 25 April 2019, students introduced a new method for bacteria classification, a tool for placing graphical elements to live video broadcast or an app for measuring objects in space using a mobile phone.

Man-in-the-room. This is the name of a virtual reality threat newly discovered by three members of a research team at the University of New Haven in the United States of America. One of them was a student of the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT, Martin Vondráček, who was at the Connecticut university as a part of his internship abroad. Apart from this entirely new threat, the experts also discovered a number of other deficiencies in applications allowing people to spend time with their friends or hold business negotiations in virtual reality.

In the future, the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT wishes to accommodate the needs of the fastest-developing field. As from the next academic year, the faculty plans to prepare seventeen new specialisations for students who wish to earn the Ing. academic degree from a follow-up Master's programme. The faculty has already applied for the relevant accreditation. It also aims to prepare its graduates for new trends that will emerge in this field in the future.

Automatic wood quality recognition and choosing of an appropriate manner of further processing. In brief, that is the plan of Tuomas Eerola from the Finnish Lappeenranta University of Technology who is currently visiting the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT and uses the algorithms and experience of his Czech colleagues in his research. The purpose of the DigiSaw project is to help modernising the timber industry and make the use of harvested wood as effective as possible.

To develop a mobile app capable of recognising mental condition based on voice and image and, at the same time, enabling physicians to be in touch with their patients more frequently - for the past several months, this has been the goal of scientists from the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT co-operating with other foreign experts on the EcoWeB (Emotional Competence Well-Being) EU project. Its aim is to utilise the potential offered by mobile technologies to make psychological care more accessible to young people.