11. 2. 2025
David Sibřina has something at work that I'm sure none of you have. It's a 3D print of a liver with all its protrusions and projections, and it's a bit of a symbol. The researcher, who works at IKEM as head of the augmented and virtual reality surgery planning group, actually started working on incorporating virtual reality tools into the surgical process the moment it became clear that even modern planning techniques using just 3D prints weren't enough.
22. 11. 2024
Chances are, you're already familiar with it and are no stranger to the word "prompt". The use of generative AI tools has massively increased in recent months, but they can't be used everywhere. Sensitive corporate data doesn't belong in the public domain. So people are looking for ways to create protected systems that allow analysis and generation of information without data leaks. Aricoma's specialised team is working on this and has therefore also teamed up with the mathematics institute of the Brno University of Technology.
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?
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.
12. 7. 2023
Philosophy and mathematics may be far more closely linked than they might first seem. And an open chat with Hynek Cihlář, who works in the VPT4 team, only confirms this. In addition to advanced statistics and neural networks, we also touched on the topic of human values and the difference between artificial and human intelligence. "It is only humans who will decide whether the positive or negative qualities of artificial intelligence will prevail in the future. It is our duty to work continuously to develop it in the desired direction and to enable us to identify and monitor the inherent risks early on. In any case - it will be a major task," says the solution architect, who started his twenty-first season in the Autocont jersey, now Aricoma, at the beginning of the year.
3. 5. 2023
There is only one country in the world that has decided to pay its own professional cycling team to conduct a targeted advertising campaign at one of the most watched sporting events on the planet. Yet Israel knew exactly what it was doing. This is because the phrase "Israel Start-up Nation", the banner under which the team has ridden the Tour de France since 2020, has managed to burn the following simple idea into the minds of fans from 190 countries around the world: Israel is all about start-ups.