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Exhibition of insignia of Brno’s universities and faculties

Majestic gowns, sceptres and chains of the rectors and deans, as well as other symbols and documents of Brno-based universities were on display at an extraordinary weeklong exhibition of rector's and dean's insignia and archival materials. After nearly 20 years, six Brno universities and their faculties, including the Faculty of Information Technology, exhibited their academic "jewels". The event took place from 16 to 24 November 2019 in the premises of the Dietrichstein Palace (Moravian Museum) at Zelný trh square, Brno.

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OpenAlt conference at FIT

As usual, the annual OpenAlt conference was held at the Faculty of Information Technology on the first weekend of November. The conference connects the world of open source and topics from software, hardware, data processing and computer security, as well as the topics of open data in public administration and in the private sector and open access to scientific information.

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Prestigious ERC CZ grant for Lukáš Holík and the VeriFIT group

How to make the automata technology more efficient so that the number of theoretically known application opportunities for finite-state machines can be realised in practice? The VeriFIT research group will look for new ways to achieve this goal as Lukáš Holík received a grant from the ERC CZ programme for the following five years. This national prestigious programme of support for research, experimental development and innovations provides funding for projects that were not supported at the European level due to insufficient funds within the European call. In the call, only seven projects were selected for the entire Czech Republic and the one selected for BUT is from the team at FIT. The project is concerned with research of technology for effective work with finite-state machines in applications such as verification and analysis of security of web applications and programmes handling data chains, programmes with indicator data structures, as well as in network operation inspection or in search for patterns.

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Git workshop

Today, the Git versioning system is the number 1 system for maintaining software projects. Come to try and to learn working with Git and join millions of developers who use Git in their every day work. The workshop will be held by engineers from Red Hat.

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of programming in C, own laptop with a suitable OS (Linux, OSX), basic knowledge of working in a text editor and in command line, account at github.com.

The workshop will be held on 30.10.2019 at 10:00 in the room Q304 and it will last until approx. 13:00. The workshop will be in Czech. 
Registration: bit.ly/Git_FIT

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Martin Kišš received an award for the best scientific poster in Sydney

Martin Kišš of the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia won the award for the best poster at the 15th ICDAR conference in Sydney. ICDAR is the largest and most prestigious international assembly for scientists and experts engaged in document analysis and recognition. Martin Kišš participated in the conference with an article describing the creation of a B-MOD dataset, which he presented at the event using the poster for which he subsequently received the Best Poster Award. You can see the poster HERE.

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