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It has been more than 48 years since humans last walked on the surface of the Moon. A potential return to the Moon has recently become a frequently discussed topic and it attracted the attention of Jakub Karpíšek, a FIT student, who decided to research this area as part of his Bachelor's thesis. The jurors of the 8 of BUT were fascinated by his lunar landing simulation and awarded him a second place in the competition. You can find more in the article. 

Lukáš Sekanina from the Department of Computer Systems ranks among the two percent of most cited researchers in the area of Information & Communication Technologies. His research at FIT focuses on biology-inspired artificial intelligence, especially genetic programming, and applications in the areas of automated design or adaptation of hardware and software. Lukáš Burget from the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia is currently the fourth most cited researcher from the Czech Republic in the field of informatics according to the guide2research ranking, which is based on Google Scholar citations. He is a lead investigator in the Speech@FIT research group, which focuses on collection of data from speech. According to the same ranking, BUT is the third most cited university (after CTU and Charles University) in the field of informatics in the Czech Republic.

The Accelerated Network Technologies Research Group (ANT@FIT) has been co-operating with the CZ.NIC association since 2018 on the creation of a probe for monitoring DNS traffic (DNS probe). Drawing on its experience with fast network traffic processing, the group helped develop a probe that can process DNS traffic very quickly using regular commodity hardware through the AF_PACKET interface or the DPDK system. In addition to receiving and processing packets, it was also necessary to find a solution for efficient implementation of the transaction table in the probe and to ensure easy configuration and export of the record in the new Compacted-DNS (C-DNS) format. The entire data collection system using monitoring probes was placed in the infrastructure of the CZ.NIC association, as stated on the CZ.NIC employee blog or on the Lupa.cz server (in Czech). Thanks to the created probe, the number of reported transactions for the TCP protocol was increased by 5% to 10%.

"Our cooperation with the CZ.NIC association does not end with the DNS probe. We will continue to work together on the use of FPGA accelerator cards used to speed up and reduce the latency of responses to DNS queries. This project is still in its initial phase, but we believe that, over time, we will be able to reach the production deployment, as was the case with the DNS probe," says Jan Kořenek, head researcher of the ANT@FIT group.