The purpose of this Summer School, which took place in Liblice 1 to 7 September 2008, was to introduce the students and post-docs to updated procedures used in the analyses of molecular data-sets applied to problem-solving in conservation genetics. This was done by bringing together geneticists statisticians and empirical conservation geneticists who presented theoretical lectures and led practical computer work. and Josef Bryja, Pavel Munclinger.
The Institute of the Czech Language of the ASCR celebrated its centennial as the successor of the Office of the Dictionary of the Czech Language founded in 1911. The institution conducts research on such varied aspects of the Czech language - as synchronic and diachronic, literary and colloquial, spoken and written. The work of the Institute results in the production of basic compendia on Czech for the general public, such as, handbooks on rules of Czech orthography, dictionaries and popular literature, and in specialized publications (books or articles). It also produces a significant amount of information about Czech that can also be retrived on its web-pages. The entire Czech nation also profits from language consultation services of the Institute as well as from public lectures on most different topics related to the Czech language. Particular attention is paid to the education of the young scientific generation primarily through lectures by members of the staff of the Institute at universities and high schools. and Zdenka Tichá a Hana Goláňová.
Cílem článku je v historickém kontextu analyzovat základy, na nichž stojí dnešní vědní obor kybernetika, a nabídnout takovou definici kybernetiky, která by odpovídala jak jejím původním kořenům, tak i aktuální institucionalizované vědeckovýzkumné a vývojové praxi. Článek klade důraz na hluboce zakořeněnou inženýrskou motivaci kybernetiky, kybernetickou metaforu člověk-stroj, na spřažení mezi člověkem a strojem a na kybernetiku jako diskurzivní praktiku. Historický kontext je zaměřen na rané období americké kybernetiky a proto-kybernetiky., The aim of this article is to analyse in historical context the foundations of contemporary cybernetics and to offer such a definition of cybernetics that corresponds both with cybernetics' original roots as well as its actual institutionalised research and development form. The article stresses deeply rooted engineering motivation of cybernetics, cybernetical man-machine metaphor, man-machine coupling and cybernetics as a discursive practice. The historical context is focused on the early period of American cybernetics and proto-cybernetics., and Jan Romportl.