We kept getting rid of chip production in Europe, now we struggle to get it back. But it is worth it

17. 9. 2024

"We've been carrying chip debt since the 1970s, Europe was happy to get rid of chip production because it's water and electricity-intensive. And now we're slowly and painfully catching up. At the same time, we will need more and more chips, and even more sophisticated ones than today," says Tomáš Pitner, professor at the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University and head of the research centre, about the situation in which the Czech Republic and Europe find themselves. But in exactly which way?

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Paula Januskiewicz: Understanding infrastructure is not the same as knowing how to attack it

31. 7. 2024

The number of cyberattacks will not decrease. Let's face it and defend ourselves. This is how one could sum up the words of Paula Januszkiewicz, a Polish cybersecurity expert who spoke this spring at Security 2024, Aricoma's annual conference about IT security trends. Januszkiewicz, whose company CQURE has four offices around the world, spoke about why companies and institutions can't resist attacks, how to get more experts, and where the industry is headed.

Around the world on a motorbike in 606 days

11. 6. 2024

 

65,000 kilometres, 22 countries and 606 days. In 2016, motorcyclist and traveller Vojta Lavický set off with his then-girlfriend on the trip of a lifetime around the world. Thanks to this, he saw with his own eyes the remote villages of Peru and Huascarán National Park, the yurt pastures and wild horses of Kyrgyzstan or the Mongolian lunar-like landscape. The trip showed him many times that even bad things are good for something in the end and that the most important thing about travelling is to have the courage to actually go.

In time we will also protect AI works, but it still takes evolution

13. 12. 2023

 

New technology has arrived and with it a lot of new questions. How many times have you experienced this? Lawyer Petra Dolejšová has done it many times, and right now she is dealing with almost nothing but the legal aspects of using artificial intelligence. "We revolve around questions of who owns the output from AI, whether it is possible to generate images of specific people and whether you can use styles such as of the painter Mucha or heroes from Marvel movies. All of this is legally quite clear, but it turns out that people are still grasping the essence of copyright law," muses the expert, who believes we have much bigger thinking to do - who do we "pin" responsibility to for any potential transgressions of technology.

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Hospital IT is in need of a shot. In Jihlava they show how to administer it

6. 12. 2023

 

Everyone would like to go digital. But there are industries and sectors where it is even slower than elsewhere. Healthcare is one such example: a focus on other things, funding dependent on different sources and a lack of qualified people. According to David Zažímal, deputy for informatics and cybersecurity at the Jihlava Hospital, these are the main reasons why things are struggling in the sector. However, "his" hospital is an example of what can be done when conditions work together and restructuring is driven by a skilful leader. In Jihlava, they started it some ten years ago and now colleagues from all over the country come to learn.

How AI helps doctors treat burns

3. 10. 2023

 

Careful, this is a very painful topic. That’s because we’ll be talking about burns with Jitka Schořová and Miroslav "Miki" Volk. Specifically, how data, annotation, artificial intelligence, mobile apps and advanced image recognition methods can play a part in burn diagnosis. This is exactly the task that the SYSCOM Software development team was assigned by the largest burn centre in the Czech Republic (and one of the biggest in Europe), the University Hospital Královské Vinohrady. And it is already - since the beginning of this summer, to be precise - part of Aricoma, the Czech Republic’s largest IT group.