Tomas Mikolov (creator of Word2Vec) receives the Medal of Merit

Two BUT graduates received state honors from the President of the Republic Among the personalities honoured by the President of the Czech Republic on the occasion of the national holiday on 28 October this year are two graduates of Brno University of Technology. Tomáš Mikolov, a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, and Filip Maleňák, creator of the Záchranka mobile app, received state honors for their outstanding contributions to science, research and technology. Technology That Helps Save Lives Entrepreneur and developer Filip Maleňák, a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication at BUT, is the creator of the Záchranka mobile app. His project demonstrates how combining information technology with the practical needs of emergency services can provide tangible assistance to people in crisis situations. A Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and Language Models Scientist Tomáš Mikolov, a graduate of the Faculty of Information Technology at BUT, is an internationally recognised expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He is best known for his contributions to the development of natural language processing technologies and as one of the creators of the Word2Vec method, which makes it possible to represent words as mathematical vectors and thus capture relationships between their meanings. This approach has become one of the important foundations for the development of modern language models and technologies that underpin many of today's artificial intelligence tools.