GoodAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research and development company, donated $ 24,000 from its total $ 300,000 grant fund to a group of researchers from the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, CTU. The grant will support the implementation of a project which, as both parties firmly believe, will accelerate research into artificial intelligence comparative to the human level. The project will be led by scientist Tomáš Mikolov, who led the development of popular algorithms for natural speech preprocessing - Word2vec and FastText, and has previously worked as a researcher in Facebook AI and Google Brain.
Bianka Hudáková
Bianka Hudáková and Kryštof Bouřil, students of the Bébarová-Nezpěváková design fundamentals studio from the Institute of Design, Faculty of Architecture, were among the fifty most successful participants in the Model Young Package 2020 international competition.
The footbridge connecting Prague's Troja borough with Císařský ostrov will be monitored online by special sensors and trackers throughout its lifetime and will continuously monitor its technical condition. As part of the pilot project, monitoring will be provided by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague under administration of the Technical Administration of Roads of the Capital City of Prague (TSK Prague). Experts from the Department of Concrete and Masonry Structures installed the devices here together with ALIMEX employees during the construction of the footbridge, using their experience from another scientific research project on which they are working together.
The Maria Theresa Park in Prague's Hradčany is now dominated by the Maria Theresa Monument, which was ceremoniously unveiled here by representatives of Prague 6 on the occasion of the 280th anniversary of her taking rule over the Habsburg Empire. On this occasion, a visualization of the statue was created as part of a project to support tourism in Prague 6. The project was created in cooperation with the Center for Digitization and Educational Technologies (CEDET) at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, CTU (CIIRC). The main authors of the 3D visualization are brothers Michal Kotek and Martin Kotek.
CoroVent lung ventilators, which were attended by citizens and companies in a public collection this spring, are ready for delivery to Czech hospitals.
A shelter, footbridge and mast, three buildings realized by architecture students, received an honorable mention from the Grand Prix of Architects - National Architecture Awards 2020. The projects were created in the Hlaváček - Čeněk studio at the CTU Faculty of Architecture. They were awarded by a jury whose members were the partner of the Dutch MVRDV studio Fokke Moerel or the French Pritzker Prize winner Christian de Portzamparc. The announcement took place on 8 October, 2020 in the form of an online video broadcast.
Epilepsy affects about 1% of the Czech population, with conventional treatment with antiepileptics failing in one third of patients. In some cases, drug-resistant patients may undergo neurosurgery to eliminate the cause of the seizures. In multidisciplinary cooperation with doctors, biologists, mathematicians and technicians, experts from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering are developing new procedures that help identify the cause of seizures, or even plan and assist in surgery.
The aim of the SHui project (Soil Hydrology research platform underpinning innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping systems) is to find innovative ways to ensure a sustainable water supply for agriculture in Europe and China, also with regard to climate change. The project is part of the H2020 program, which is the largest science and research program in the EU. It is attended by a total of 19 prestigious institutions from nine European countries and China. The team of the Department of Hydromelioration and Landscape Engineering of the Faculty of Civil Engineering managed to become a member in a challenging two-round selection procedure.
Vojtěch Rudorfer, a recent graduate and doctoral student at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University, became the winner of the 6th annual Kaplicky Internship competition for beginning architects. He succeeded with his diploma project of a hangar for a research airship in Svalbard, which he worked on in the studio of Mirko Baum and Vojtěch Hybler. He also gets the opportunity to complete a three-month paid internship in the famous London studio of David Chipperfield. The competition, reminiscent of the legacy of architect Jan Kaplický, is organized by the Bakala Foundation in cooperation with the Museum of Design in London and the Kaplicky Center Endowment Fund.
CTU student projects were presented to the public on Technická Street on Wednesday, 30 September during the exhibition entitled Day with formulas and racing motorcycles of CTU 2020. In addition to electric and combustion formulas from the workshops of CTU CarTech team from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and from the eForce FEE Prague Formula from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, for the second time this year the racing motorcycles of the CTU Lions team from the Faculty of Transportation Technology and the first Czech autonomous electric formula of the eForce team showcased as well.

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