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2023/05/25
For the 10th anniversary of its foundation, the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague is preparing a three-day series of events at the end of May and the beginning of June. The themes will be highly topical: Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence. Industry-AI Days 2023 will present not only the best from the Institute itself. Thanks to the National Center for Industry 4.0 and RICAIP, the event will link science with practice. Invitations have been accepted by guests from the Czech Republic and from abroad.

The theme of the second annual Technology in Society conference is heroism and the search for all its forms. What is heroism? And does heroism still have a place in our cloud world? The conference will address ethical hacking, blockchain, heroism in war, the ethics of heroism, cultural anthropology in leadership, the universe, and the role of heroism in creating a false history. The conference is organized by the CCHAOS research group of Faculty of Information Technology (FIT CTU) on June 3, 2023. Admission is free upon registration.

The Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic (EACR), the current president of which is Vojtěch Petráček, rector of the Czech Technical Univeristy in Prague, has announced a competition for the EACR Prize for 2023.

The eleventh edition of ScienceFest themed "Roots of Science" will be held on 21 June, the day of the solstice. The one-day event at the so-called Kulaťák (the Roundabout), the Dejvice's Victory Square, will once again bring together scientific institutions across the country and, as in previous years, show that different ways of presenting science have their irreplaceable importance.

Best for all. Architecture students present their vision of the Czech Republic at the CZ2 exhibition
2023/05/25
Students from five architecture schools in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands worked under the guidance of Winy Maas. Together they have formulated ideas for the future of the Czech Republic and now they will present their projects to the public. The opening of the exhibition will take place on 31 May at Faculty of Architecture of Czech Technical University.
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On 15-17 May 2023, the next edition of the Meeting of Faculties of Electrical Engineering and Similar Technical Colleges and Universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - FELAPO 2023 - took place. This is an important meeting of the leaders of electrical engineering and information faculties - deans, vice-deans, secretaries and chairs of academic senates in the field of electrical engineering and computer science. This event, held annually since 1990, has become a vehicle for sharing information, solving problems and presenting the latest trends and experiences.

The next edition of the POSTER conference offered university students the chance to present their first research papers and establish professional contacts.

2023/05/29
Arrogance, superficiality, competitiveness, greed, pride - this is not a list of deadly sins, but five human traits that will soon be perfectly tested by the massive emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) language models. AI, like any other technology, is not inherently evil or dangerous; it can only become so in human hands.

Over the past two days, representatives of 25 partners of the new AI-MATTERS technology network, which consists of seven nodes and one satellite in eight European countries with a budget of €60 million for five years, met at Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of CTU in Prague (CIIRC CTU). The main objective of the AI-MATTERS network, which held its first general assembly in Prague today, is to support the development of the European manufacturing industry in the introduction of advanced technologies, thereby increasing its innovation capacity and global competitiveness. The Czech node of the AI-MATTERS network is led by CIIRC CTU, which is thus becoming one of the main testing and experimentation sites for industrial applications in the field of artificial intelligence and intelligent robotics.

The director of the state enterprise LOM PRAHA, Jiří Protiva, and the rector of Czech Technical University in Prague, Vojtěch Petráček, signed two important documents confirming the forthcoming cooperation between the two institutions: The Cooperation Agreement and the Contract for the Provision of Consulting Services at the IDET international defence and security technology fair on Thursday, 25 May 2023