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12/10/2025 Best Junior Paper Award
18/11/2025The presentation of this year's competitors for the Best Junior Paper Award will take place on December 10 at 9am in Lecture hall 3. The submitted papers are listed on https://intranet.utia.cas.cz/best-paper-junior.
Read more11/3/2025 Seminar: Mario Chacón Falcón, ICMAT, Spain
30/10/2025Towards secure Artificial Intelligence: Private distributed learning and strategic decision making
Read moreEmeritus employee Jiří Záworka, DrSc., has passed away
01/10/2025It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Jiří Záworka, DrSc. (1934-2025), Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Read moreAn educational trail will be created between institutions in Prague 8
23/09/2025A new educational trail is being developed at the Czech Academy of Sciences complex in Ládví, Prague. It will offer visitors the opportunity to discover the work of local scientists through playful and accessible installations. Interactive exhibits will bring scientific topics into the public space and make them accessible to people of all ages.
Read more11/6-7/2025 Open House Days
09/09/2025Where: Pod vodárenskou věží 1143/4, Prague 8 When: November 6 and 7, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contact: Dana Jeníkovská, phone.: 266 052 411, e-mail: eo@utia.cas.cz Registration: We kindly ask visitors to notify us of their interest in the tour at least two days in advance. This event is part of The Week of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Read more9/15/2025 - Invited talk: Cory J. Butz - University of Regina, Canada
03/09/2025Advances in Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagram Learning and Inference
Read moreKarel Sladký passed away
22/07/2025With sorrow, we announce that on July 12, our dear colleague Ing. Karel Sladký, CSc., from the Department of Econometrics, passed away at the age of 84. He worked at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (ÚTIA) for more than half a century and made a significant contribution to its history. He will be remembered by all of us as an exceptionally meticulous and hardworking editor of the institute's international journal Kybernetika, which he significantly elevated through his dedicated efforts. He held this position for nearly 30 years. In the scientific part of his work, he focused mainly on stochastic dynamic programming and Markov decision processes. Toward the end of his career, he was appointed Emeritus Researcher of ÚTIA in recognition of his contributions to the development of the institute. In Karel Sladký, we have lost a devoted and kind colleague who left an indelible mark on the institute.
Read moreImpact Factor(IF) of Cybernetics increased to 2.2
26/06/2025According to newly published data from Journal Citation Reports, the impact factor of our journal Kybernetika has increased from 0.9 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024! Congratulations to the editor-in-chief, editorial board, and journal production team for this significant shift.
Read moreFilip Šroubek Appointed Professor
23/06/2025The President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel personally handed over the appointment decrees to the professors of universities on Monday 16 June 2025 in Karolinum. On the proposal of the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Filip Šroubek was appointed Professor in the field of "Applied Mathematics". Resource: here
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