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Dear students,

due to today's emergency measures of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, we have been forced to cancel all the lectures, seminars, laboratory classes and consultations. These measures are valid from March 11, 2020 until further notice.

In the next few hours the guarantors or teachers will let you know about the planned measures for specific subjects, or how the lectures and seminars will be replaced in the next seven days (up to and including March 17). We expect that the measures will last at least for this period.

At the beginning of the next week you will learn more about the planned course of the semester.

There is no need to worry, it is certainly a priority for us to make everything go smoothly.

Please do not go to school unless absolutely necessary.

CVT (Computer Centre), school libraries and sports facilities will be closed from tomorrow. The student club U Kachničky will also be closed. The FIT canteen and the FIT Study Department will be operating.  

All the public events at the faculty are canceled or postponed indefinitely during this period. 

Students who are also employees of the faculty can attend the faculty due to their work duties if necessary. Postgraduate students may attend the faculty for the reason of replacing their full-time classes (for example, if there are webinars instead of exercises, they may organize them from the faculty premises) if necessary. 

If you have any questions, please contact your teachers, study advisors or vice-deans, but please use the means of mass communication first (courses forums, Facebook groups, Discord...) rather than individual questions.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in managing this situation

Jaroslav Dytrych, Richard Růžička and Pavel Zemčík

In the middle of July, the second annual BISSIT (Brno International Summer School in Information Technology) will take place at the Faculty of Information Technology. It will offer courses in interactive applications, machine learning and robot programming to people from around the world. From July 13 to 29, participants will receive theoretical and practical seminars, as well as visits to technology companies or informal trips to interesting places. More information HERE.

Altogether eight projects received an award in the second round of the Soutěž podnikatelských nápadů (Business Ideas Competition) launched by the South Moravian Innovation Centre last autumn. Petr Buchal, a student of FIT, was one of the successful presenters. He entered the competition with his project Discover Yourself which is based on a specific algorithm. It is designed to help people choose a book, a film, or a video game they will enjoy based on their choice of various preselected criteria. "I'm sure you know that feeling when you have just finished reading a book you liked and thought to yourself that you wouldn't mind reading a similar one. But you didn't really know where and how to look for it. Petr came up with an algorithm that uses data about what you usually read, watch, listen to and play and proposes a tailored solution," describes Vojtěch Krmíček from South Moravian Innovation Centre who specialises in development of entrepreneurial creativity at schools. The young programmer estimates that the development of the application that uses the principles of machine learning will take about six months. The South Moravian Innovation Centre distributed a total of 430,000 Czech crowns among successful students to help them develop their businesses.