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In the past weeks, the faculty prepared around eighty emergency packages which will enable students of follow-up Master's programmes to pass practical laboratory workshops even at home. The equipment kits will facilitate distance learning in the Design of Embedded Systems (NAV) and Principles and Principles and Design of IoT (TOI) courses. "We hope that this will at least partially compensate for the absence of students from laboratories where they would have had this equipment at their disposal. The packages contain a development kit and components for a total of six practice tasks for the NAV course. For the TOI course laboratory workshops, we provided the same development boards as in the NAV course package," described Václav Šimek from the Department of Computer Systems, who prepared the student packages.

The We Live IT conference, which took place online last week, offered seventeen specialised topics, meetings with ten graduates and six e-stands. At the event, which aims to introduce students to interesting topics, technologies and procedures in IT, twenty speakers presented their work to over 140 participants. For example, they talked about modern methods of software development and deployment, the basics of chatbots, artificial intelligence or smart robots. Recordings of most of the lectures are now available on the conference's website.

Every day, we rely on the flawless functioning of dozens, if not hundreds, of applications and programs running on our computers, be they web browsers, information systems, communications software, or a multitude of hidden programs running in the background. We have come to expect applications not only not to crash suddenly, but also to respond very quickly to our commands. However, every user has experienced a situation where a new update to an important app caused it to slow down noticeably or even freeze up completely. This is exactly what Jiří Pavela, a doctoral student from the Faculty of Information Technology of Brno University of Technology, who is also one of the awardees in the Brno Ph.D. Talent competition, wants to prevent. You can read more in the article.