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11/12-14/2025 Success of Open Science students collaborating with ÚTIA
20/11/2025From 12 to 14 November 2025, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Národní 3, Prague) hosted the Open Science student conference, where young researchers presented the results of their year-long internships. Nearly two hundred talented high-school students took part in the event, showcasing their projects over three days to expert committees and the general public. Students collaborating with ÚTIA also achieved excellent results: Michal Glasnák, Samuel Vacek and David Bojko won 2nd place for their internship project “Analysis of Conspiracy and Disinformation Narratives Using Bayesian Networks”, supervised by Jiří Vomlel from ÚTIA. Vojtěch Hoffmann was awarded 3rd place for his internship “Methods for Multimodal Data Analysis”, supervised by Evženie Uglickich from ÚTIA.
Read more12/10/2025 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.
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