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Listen to an interview with the head of Czech Centre London, Přemysl Pela for Radio Prague International on the occasion of the 24th edition of Made in Prague On/Off Festival .  The Made in Prague On/Off Festival presents for its 24th edition a hybrid festival moving between an online and offline presence, delivering both virtual and physical events and bringing Czech films, visual arts, music and...

A live stream from Prague with Jan Šedivý, Chaired by Michael Londesborough on Conversational AI. Wednesday 14 Oct 2020, 6 pm BST More at https://bit.ly/33UW9N0 Intelligent speakers are now paving the way in the AI scene. Alquist, a social chatbot designed by the Czech Technical University team of students under the leadership of Jan Šedivý, has won two second places and one third place in a row i...

In our new episode, a critically acclaimed, bestselling novelist Alena Mornštajnová talks to Julia Sherwood, a renowned translator, about her gripping novel HANA, which has won the Czech Book Award 2017 and has been translated into over a dozen languages across the world. The book is coming to English readers thanks to Parthian Books on 1 October 2020. Based on real events and set in Mornštajnová’...

An interview with Jiří Přibáň opens the Czech Centres’ podcast series with leading Czech personalities living in various European countries reflecting on social, economic and political changes during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. There are many issues to be addressed such as how the pandemic will change our lives, will Europe as we know it survive, how culture will cope with the economic do...

A live stream from Prague with With Josef Průša, Chaired by Guy Borg on Pandemic and other Challenges. Thursday 21 May 2020, 5 pm BST More at https://bit.ly/36CKbHi As the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the main focuses has been to enhance additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3-D printing, as a way to help provide as many medical supplies as possible, especially person...

How to minimise people’s potential exposure to the COVID-19 infection? Listen into our online Science Café with Tomas Krajnik to learn more information! Tomáš Krajník and his team from Czech Technical University (CTU) is developing an app which forecasts the density of people in public areas. Based on the data, you can then plan your visits or journeys accordingly and schedule necessary trips to s...

Cities are overly congested with traffic and pollution. At present the most widely discussed solution is urban on-demand mobility based self-driving technology. The envisioned automated mobility-on-demand (AMoD) systems employ a centrally-controlled fleet of self-driving vehicles to provide on-demand point-to-point transportation to the users of the system. Such systems promise to revolutionise us...

We're bringing you an interview with the Chief Technology Officer at Avast Michal Pěchouček, recorded as part of our AI SCIENCE CAFÉ SERIES 2020.   Michal Pěchouček leads the core technology and R&D teams and is also responsible for Avast’s scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning and cybersecurity. He also lectures at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at t...

Due to the complexities and related risks provided by the ubiquitous deployment of AI there is an ever increasing need to provide users with security and privacy, while living online and surrounded by connected devices. Michal Pěchouček debates the current and future role of #AI, namely machine learning and game theory, AI-enabled cybersecurity problems and how AI can help to increase user privacy...

Tomáš Páleníček summarizes the current body of knowledge on psychedelics in the context of the laboratory and clinical research and their traditional use. More info at https://bit.ly/2uKX1F0  

Czech video games expert Pavel Barák looks more closely at the current state of education and how it is influenced by the gaming sector. Based on a few examples of Czech video games, Pavel will review how they’ve been used to support some parts of the education process and have even, in fact, improved it. More info at: https://bit.ly/2ThBEVc  

Daniel Sýkora, the Professor at the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction at CTU in Prague, presents many disadvantages of using neural network and its alternative, purely algorithmic approach that achieves significantly better results without using a neural network. More at: https://bit.ly/2IfyHOY      

The Czech embryologist Zuzana Holubcová discusses the fascinating processes occurring inside the human egg cell before and during fertilization, where human life begins. During her postdoctoral research in Cambridge, Dr. Holubcová studied causes of female infertility and described errors originating in the process by which the egg prepares for fertilization. More at https://bit.ly/3adF6py  

An interview with a Prague-born French historian and a political scientist Jacques Rupnik taken during the 'The Other Europe: The Power of the Powerless with Jacques Rupnik, Tom Roberts and Richard Davy' event organised by Czech Centre London. More info at:  https://bit.ly/2VFmNFg   Jacques Rupnik is a Prague-born French historian and a political scientist focusing on the history and politics of E...