Reports

How to improve navigation in the online space in the age of artificial intelligence? This was the main challenge for 30 high school students at the CTU Faculty of Information Technology Summer School titled With Artificial Intelligence in the Online Space, organized by the non-profit initiative AI for Children and the faculty. Participants, divided into six teams, created projects focusing on topics such as detecting misinformation in the media, academic preparation of high school students, learning through their own mistakes, limiting time spent watching social networks, protection against pitfalls in the online space, and awareness against cyberattacks. The event took place from 22-26 July 2024.

At the very end of the summer camp intended for successful solvers of the year-long correspondence mathematics competition, the little campers discovered that their arch enemy is not a dragon, but a princess. But they also learned many other things.

The University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings (UCEEB) of CTU in Prague, which celebrates 10 years of its research activities this year, has expanded its activities by two expert teams. The first one deals with Circular Building and the second one with Modern Energy. In total, there are now 18 expert teams at UCEEB. The Centre is actively involved in shaping sustainable construction. It aims to construct environmentally friendly buildings that are in line with sustainable development and provide a healthy and comfortable indoor environment for users.

On Monday evening, a meeting was held between Taiwanese MPs led by Deputy Speaker Chiang Chi-Chen, representatives of TSRI (Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute) led by Director Hou Tuo-Hung and representatives of CTU in Prague.

The autonomous tram has completed pilot runs in recent days.

The institutionalization of photography at Czech Technical University dates back to the end of the 19th century, when the Institute of Practical Photography was founded in 1899 under the leadership of Professor of Fermentation Chemistry and Photography Karel Kruis. The Prague Polytechnic also retains its leadership in the field of higher education of future technical experts for moving pictures for film, television and radio. This year marks the round but unfortunately somewhat forgotten 70th anniversary of the founding of the oldest technically oriented audiovisual field in Czechoslovakia, called Radio, Film and Television Technology (RFT), along with the establishment of the Department of Sound and Film Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, thus putting our alma mater two years ahead of the famous FAMU in Prague (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). There, the Department of Film and Television Technology was founded by Prof. Jaroslav Bouček in 1956.

A team consisting of members of the Department of Air Transport of the Faculty of Transportation Sciecnes of Czech Technical University in Prague and MoonFlyer Lab from the National Formosa University in Taiwan broke the Czech and Taiwanese records in continuous flight.

Czech Republic will also be represented at the Olympiad by students from CTU. The FBMI is extremely proud of its student Vít Hlaváč, who achieved a fantastic success and qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Three years ago, Vit participated in the Tokyo Olympics, where he finished the 50 km race walk in Sapporo in 43rd place. This year in Paris, he will compete in the mixed relay with Eliška Martínková, a premiere event at the Olympics.

The winners of the DIF 2024 Photo Contest of the subject Digital Photography Processing were announced at the opening of the exhibition TIME & DESTRUCTION on 6 June 2024. The projects of the eight best artists can be seen (and read!) in the next months (probably twelve) in the glass ground floor of the CIIRC, Building A at the cornerstone; the exhibition is freely accessible every weekday through the main entrance from Jugoslavských partyzánů street.

Traditionally, the national competition Lion's Den, organized by the CTU for the fifteenth time for primary school pupils, culminated in a summer camp. It started on Saturday, 13 July in Plasy.