2 Nov 2021

With an IT Architect Zdeněk Machač About the Past and Future of the ICS

Zdeněk Machač, Head of Information Systems Development, is no newcomer to us. During his tenure, the institute grew from an almost family environment to its current size. He told us what he likes about the transformation of ICS and what bothers him, but also what his work success is most proud of.

27 Oct 2021

Looking Back on the External Meeting: Teaching and Education

The favorable situation in October allowed us to continue the tradition of our external meetings, where we all get up from our chairs at offices, leave them and stay together in the chosen place for two days. In addition to the goal of meeting be together physically, we also supported the understanding of the activities of individual teams in relation to the ICS strategy at an external meeting this year. In the miniseries of articles, we will present these goals and the individual activities related to them - the first of them is Teaching and Education.

14 Oct 2021

We Have Developed a System for Configuring Firewalls Based on Identities

In cooperation with the CESNET Development Fund, we implemented the Firewall Rules Management project using user identities. As the name suggests, its main goal was to demonstrate and prototype the ability to manage firewall rules using user identities in the CESNET e-infrastructure environment managed in the Perun system, with the main focus on heterogeneous infrastructures of larger organizations.

1 Oct 2021

Join the Working Groups for the Implementation of the EOSC Initiative in the Czech Republic

Research stakeholders met at a seminar focused on the development of data infrastructure in the Czech Republic. Among other things, the meeting raised a call in the form of the possibility of participating in working groups for the implementation of the EOSC initiative in the Czech Republic. Registration is possible until October 15, 2021.

30 Sep 2021

Success in the Field of Quantum Cryptography

Researcher Matej Pivoluska from the ICS chose the field of quantum cryptography for his research, where he has currently achieved significant success. Together with his international team, he has succeeded in developing a new quantum cryptography protocol that enables higher data rates and is much more noise-resistant.

29 Sep 2021

Researcher Petra Němcová about the Intertwining of IT with Other Fields

The connection of various fields with informatics is an increasingly visible phenomenon, with a great future ahead of it. A lot about this knows Petra Němcová - originally a chemist now working at a research team at the Institute of Computer Science, where she focuses on modeling transport processes in proteins. In addition, she is currently completing her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Informatics and representing the ICS at the Researchers' Night 2021.

21 Sep 2021

Researchers' Night 2021 at ICS or Traveling by Protein

The Researchers' Night is coming, this year the main topic is TIME! The traditional scientific-popularization event will be online at MUNI again. On Friday, September 24, from 6 pm, we will publish the videos of university scientists for the first time. Among them is our colleague Petra Němcová, who will present how IT technology saves time in the development and discovery of new drugs.

16 Sep 2021

University IT Community Meeting: In-person and with an Informal Program

After more than a year, we organized a physical meeting of the university IT community with a simple goal to share news and changes in our work and meet so-called offline and after a long separation to restore personal relationships. The informal program was also a part of it, which completely denied the conventional stereotype of "unsociable IT guys".