Zriadenie Fakulty informatiky a informačných technológií - FIIT STU

1 Message from the deanIn all previous Annual Reports of a short history ofFIIT STU we have complained due to lack of spacecapacity for the staff as well as for the laboratoriesand that many activities have been slowed down oreven stopped at all. The year 2009 was therefore forall academic staff of the Faculty as well as for all ourstudents important as we have started to build thenew building of the FIIT STU. Up to now we “go”down as you can see on photos in the new buildingphoto gallery section (p. 123). However, you can seealso how the building will look like when it will befinished.Another important event of the year2009 was “complex accreditation” ofthe STU which summarizes the resultsof the FIIT STU from its beginning.We were successful despite quitecomplicated working conditions.The evaluation of the Long term strategyfor the year 2009 showed that almost all goals for this year have been successfullyachieved. We are proud that there is still a high interest among secondary schools studentsto study the study programmes we have prepared for them at our Faculty and that ourgraduates have no problem to find suitable job.The Report shows the results achieved in research that is of high priority at FIIT STU.Interlink of research and education is not only declared but also documented by researchactivities of our students. Research results of our students were presented at the 5 th StudentResearch Conference IIT.SRC 2009 organised by the Faculty.A long cooperation of the Faculty with prof. Brusilovsky led to his awarding by Dr.h.c.by our university. We utilized his stay at the Faculty for fruitful discussion not only withthe staff members but with our students as well. He participated also on our Student ResearchConference where students had another possibility to discuss their scientific problemswhat was appreciated not only by our students but by prof. Brusilovsky as well.5