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The platform, which helps identify people buying illegal services on the Internet, has been created by Vladislav Bambuch from FIT BUT. He first encountered the topic of processing of publicly available data and linking them to cryptocurrency addresses in one of his university courses. Subsequently, he expanded upon the topic in his diploma thesis. The result of his work is a functional platform linking past projects undertaken at FIT BUT and serving as a basis for the connection of other web-based tools in the future.

An interactive exhibition on robotics was prepared by the Technical Museum in Brno for the 100th anniversary of the first edition of Karel Čapek's drama R. U. R., in which the author first made use of the new word robot'. The exhibition presents the importance of robotics in industry, science and technology, as well as in culture and art. Visitors will also find robots from FIT among the one hundred exhibits.

The BUT Student Entrepreneurial Spirit Award competition, which was held by BUT for the very first time this year, was won by the Discyo application, a project of four students from the Faculty of Information Technology. Their solution can give the user advice on what film to watch, what podcast to listen to or what videogame to play. The algorithm can tell what are the user's preferences across various media and what the user might like. The competition of student ideas is held by the Brno University of Technology in co-operation with the South Moravian Innovation Centre.

A team of students from the Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology called Generation Mendel has won gold medal and was nominated for Best Environment Project at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) global competition. Students from FIT, twins Petr and Pavel Kohout and Gabriela Chmelařová as an advisor, are also part of the winning team who came up with the design for a solution for cleaning water from blue-green algae.

Three leading Czech higher education institutions - Masaryk University, Czech Technical University in Prague and Brno University of Technology - agreed to strengthen their existing co-operation in the area of cybersecurity and established a registered institute called the CyberSecurity Hub. Apart from strengthening joint professional activities, they will also focus on supporting industry, companies and European certification of state-of-the-art technologies in the area of cybersecurity. Representatives of the higher education institutions signed the foundation deed of the institute on 18 November.

Kemp Technologies, a technology company, has announced its acquisition of Brno company Flowmon Networks. The founding team of the university spin-off, which is currently one of the global leaders in network traffic monitoring and analysis also included researchers from FIT BUT. The acquisition of Flowmon Networks is the first successful exit of a BUT's technology spin-off.

Modernising forestry and offering foresters advanced technology allowing to make caring for forests more effective. That is the goal of the Zaitra start-up founded by classmates from FIT BUT, Marek Marušin, Radoslav Pitoňák and Martin Javorka. They started their business after succeeding at last year's hackathon and, thanks to combining artificial intelligence with satellite imagery, they were also chosen by the European Space Agency for its incubator.

Nearly 250 participants virtually came to listen to a panel discussion of four personages of IT named Od studenta k CEO/CTO (From Student to CEO/CTO) which was held on Thursday. During the discussion, Martin Cígler, Jan Najvárek, Jan Kořenek a Zbyněk Poulíček shared their experience not only from the beginnings of their businesses with the audience.

Not just hoes and shears - even mobile phones, computers or tablets can be used for gardening. Smart greenhouse created by FIT students David Bažout and Daniel Kolínek can be controlled remotely, will extend harvest season until Christmas and saves water at the same time. This was one of the reasons why their Sensorie project ranked among the best project at the SDGs Awards 2020, unique awards for meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Diaries, memories and correspondence from the First World War will be conveyed to researchers as well as the public by the EGO-DOK, a new project of the Military History Institute Prague. After over a century, personal testimonies of both participants in and observers of the war will come to life in a digital world also thanks to technology in development at the Faculty of Information Technology.

How does it feel to be a CTO sooner than you are of legal age? Pavel Ihm knows. He founded the company with two of his grammar school classmates when he was sixteen. Currently, he is a student at FIT and the application he developed is helping pupils and schools all over the world. At the end of September, the project of a Brno-based start-up FaceUp Technology won the national finals of the Creative Business Cup international competition.

A law stipulating that owners need to get their dogs tagged with an identification chip has been in force for nearly a year. That should help finding lost dogs and fighting illegal breeders. But a central register that would serve for this purpose is still missing. FIT student, Kristýna Zaklová, introduced a solution which can partially replace uniform register. Within her Bachelor's thesis, she created a web search engine called Komu patřím (Who do I belong to).

Three years ago, Dominik Vagala, a student of the Faculty of Information Technology at BUT, wanted to paint his room. However, he was not sure which colour would look best on his walls. He wanted to solve this conundrum using modern technology but could not find any suitable application that would work on his phone and help him choose the colour. Although he eventually had to use a graphic editor to pick the colour, the idea for a new mobile application was conceived during the process. The app called 'Paint my Room' is now available on Google Play store and has already been downloaded by almost thirty thousand people. Dominik Vagala chose the development of the app as the topic of his Bachelor's thesis and presented his project at this year's Excel@FIT conference.

A new European project called NextPerception, which was launched this May, focuses on two interesting areas: intelligent monitoring of patients' health and the development of automated driving. Participants from European institutions include researchers from BUT, specifically from the Faculty of Information Technology, CEITEC BUT and from the Department of Biomedical Engineering of FEEC.

The technology that is being developed at the FIT within the BLENDED project helps the European Space Agency (ESA) process images of Earth. The project connects scientists across Europe in an effort to create a revolutionary platform for distributed and, most importantly, secure data processing using artificial intelligence that processes and analyses space data.

Kateřina Žmolíková, a doctoral student at the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT, has been awarded the prestigious Joseph Fourier Prize today. She ranked third for her work in the area of speech separation. The prize, which is awarded to doctoral students for successful work in the area of computer science and information technology, was presented to her at the French Institute in Prague by French ambassador Roland Galharague.

If the words of Jaroslav Kadlec, a FIT graduate are anything to go by, microscopy is a fascinating discipline. Kadlec works as software manager for Thermo Fisher Scientific, one of the world leading producers of electron microscopes, where he is in charge of development of both talented people as well as new technologies. 

He started with his colleague from the FIT BUT as the first employees of a company operating from a single room. Today, Jiří Tobola leads a company that belongs among the industry leaders in the area of network traffic monitoring and analysis and employs 130 people. "This is a great success story showing where an academic research can lead," says the current CEO of Flowmon Networks. The company was founded three years ago as a university spin-off company and, today, it has more than a thousand customers all over the world.

On Wednesday, the sixth year of the annual Excel@FIT student conference focusing on innovations, technology and research in the IT field was held at the Faculty of Information Technology. The conference presents the best ideas of the students of information technology. Due to the extraordinary situation, the presentations of students' works were held online.

Further advancement of material microscopy analysis using the innovated LiteScope device, developed and manufactured by Brno-based NenoVision; that is the goal of a new project launched this April in co-operation with the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. Apart from NenoVision, historically the first spin-off company of the project's other participant CEITEC BUT research centre, the other participants also include the Faculty of Information Technology of Brno University of Technology (FIT BUT), Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM) of the Palacký University in Olomouc and Institute of Physics of Materials (ÚFM) of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Waiting for the waiter to bring the bill, discussing who ordered which meal or wondering whether or not the restaurant accepts cash. In a queue, waiting to pay, Lukáš Kovač wondered if it is possible to streamline and accelerate the entire process. He shared his idea for the application with his colleagues - these included the FIT BUT graduates Jan Dorazil and Roman Kantor, who, together with Lukáš Kovač and Miloslav Mrvík, decided to found a company and create the Qerko application. Today, it is used by 120 businesses all over the Czech Republic and more than 15,000 customers. Moreover, it received over 10 million Czech crowns from the Miton investment group as a support to jump-start the company. 

VirtualTraining, a company based in South Bohemia, co-operates with experts from FIT BUT on the development of an application that simulates training on real-world cycling routes. Specialists from Brno University of Technology helped the company with research and development of a prototype for the reconstruction of 3D scenery on the basis of 2D video. Rouvy provides a training solution based on augmented reality for everyone who wants to have fun, but also break a sweat.

Two Czech laboratories working in automatic speech and language processing have achieved significant international success. The results of the European programme supporting the creation of artificial intelligence centres were announced in March. The institutions involved in the HumanE-AI-Net project also include the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague and the Faculty of Information Technology (BUT).

The ANT@FIT research team from BUT has created one of the world's first acceleration cards with a bandwidth of 100 Gb/s.In contrast to other devices available, the new card is much more powerful, allowing deployment in high-speed networks. Working on acceleration of time-critical operations used in network infrastructure equipment and in network monitoring and security, the research group also participated in several other commercially successful projects.

The device developed at the Faculty of Information Technology of BUT could, in the future, help land surveyors all over the world create 3D models. The backpack with a laser scanner and sensors scans the walk-through area and the software subsequently creates a model. The experts from BUT are now planning to work on a solution for cars.