Best Presentation Award (ICSIP 2016)
Best Student Paper Award - 2016 Odyssey Conference
Hossein Zeinali received the Best Student Paper Award sponsored by the Cirrus Logic at Odyssey 2016 Conference in Bilbao, Spain for his article: Deep Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models in i-vector-based Text-Dependent Speaker Verification.
BUT Gold Medal
Czech Technology Agency Price 2016
2016 Prize of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in the category "usabilty" was awarded to four research teams, which were involved in the project: Technologies of speech processing for efficient human-machine communication. Principal investigator of the project was FIT BUT, other participants were: Phonexia Ltd., Lingea Ltd. and OptimSys Ltd. Participants from FIT BUT were as follows: J. Černocký, M.Karafiát, I. Szöke, J. Žižka, M. Hannemann, H. Heřmanský and L. Ondel
IJCCI-ECTA 2016 Best Paper Award
Conference web site: http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/
ECTA 2016 Best Paper Award for the paper "Evolution of Generic Square Calculations in Cellular Automata".
IJCCI-ECTA 2016 Best Paper Award
Conference web site: http://www.ecta.ijcci.org/
ECTA 2016 Best Paper Award for the paper "Evolution of Generic Square Calculations in Cellular Automata".
Instructor Curriculum Specialist Award - CCNP
A result of impressive accomplishments and contributions to the Cisco Networking Academy program.
Josef Hlávka Price
Oldřich Plchot was awarded a Josef Hlávka Prize by foundation "Nadání (talent) Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových". Olda took part at the ceremony held on 16. 11. 2016 in the Chateau Lužany u Přeštic. "Nadání Josefa, Marie a Zdeňky Hlávkových" is the oldest Czech foundation supporting science and arts. It was founded in 1904 by Josef Hlávka (1831 - 1908) - an important Czech architect, builder, and philanthropist. The Josef Hlávka Prize is awarded to the best students and graduates of Prague public universities, Brno University of Technology and young talented scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
PRACE Summer of HPC 2016 HPC Ambassador Award
PRACE organisation annualy awards a student with HPC Ambassador Award for the best student project within the Summer of HPC scholarships. The expert committee judges enthusiasm and motivation of every single student, the quality of developed project, achieved results and presentation skills for the general public.
Prize of BUT Rector - Silver Medal BUT
On November 22, 2016 Jan Černocký was awarded the BUT rector's silver medal for "long-term contribution to the research development of BUT and for leadership of the world-renowned speech research group at the Faculty of Information Technology.
Havlena Vojtěch, Ing.
Žmolíková Kateřina, Ing., Ph.D.
Prize of Zdena Rábová
Prize is awarded for excellent study and science results.
Silver Medal in the Human competitive awards in genetic and evolutionary computation (Humies)
Dr. Michal Bidlo (BUT FIT) got Silver Medal in 2016 Human Competitive Awards in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (Humies) which held during Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO) in Denver, Colorado, USA. GECCO represents the top world event in this area. This year 22 participants applied to the Humies competition from which 8 finalists presented their works during the conference. Dr. Bidlo obtained the award for his new method for designing complex cellular automata using evolution which has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEC) with impact factor 5.908. IEEE TEC currently represents the top journal in the field Computer science - Theory and methods (according to the recent evaluation performed by the Web of Science).
Related links:
A website of the Humies competition:
http://www.human-competitive.org/call-for-entries
Lists of participants and topics by years:
http://www.human-competitive.org/awards
The Commemorative Medal of FIT BUT (The Gold Medal)
Academic Senate Faculty of Information Technology BUT awarded the Gold Medal of the Faculty of Information Technology BUT in recognition of significant contribution to the development of the faculty and the entire BUT during the term of office of the Dean in the years 2008 - 2012 and 2012 - 2016.
Bouša Zdeněk, Ing.
The Commemorative Medal of FIT BUT (The Gold Medal)
Academic Senate Faculty of Information Technology BUT awarded the Gold Medal of the Faculty of Information Technology BUT in recognition of significant contribution to the development of the faculty and the entire BUT during the term of office Faculty Secretary
WMSCI 2016 Session's Best Paper Award
20th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA.