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Behind the News: A Q&A with Cedric Lothritz on LuxemBERT
Learn moreLast week we published the news that the first Luxembourgish AI model, LuxemBERT, was created in a partnership with BGL BNP Paribas. Here we go behind the story and get to know the PhD student who worked on the project, Cedric Lothritz, and what the research entails.
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The Beginning of a New Network Paradigm
Learn moreThe classic economics of supply and demand have stunted the roll-out of internet infrastructure around the world, leaving 2.9 billion people still unconnected today[1]. Addressing this challenge has been the remit of public policy makers, corporations, and researchers for decades.
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Optimising Luxembourg’s Wastewater Networks to Fight Pollution
Learn moreCovering nearly three quarters of our world, we’d imagine that water is one of our most plentiful resources on Earth – but everything we do on a daily basis consumes vast quantities of it. From the 130 litres of water it took to make the beans in your morning cup of coffee, to the 10,000…
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SnT Project WavyMeet Selected for Fit 4 Start Programme
Learn moreA project created by Dr. Antonio Ken Iannillo at the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, called WavyMeet, has been selected as one of the 15 finalists in the Fit 4 Start Acceleration Programme. Managed by the Ministry of Economy and Luxinnovation with support from Technoport, the LCI, LuxProvide and the…
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Challenges on the Moon
Learn moreIn early September, in a concert hall normally filled with the deafening bass line of the latest rock band, instead there was only quiet sounds of clicks and buzzing. The thing that is often overlooked about the moon is how quiet it is; and the European Space Agency (ESA) with the European Space Resources Centre…
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Cybersecurity’s Impact on Society: Video Interview
Learn more“Imagine we would live up to this long dream of Luxembourg being the secure data vault of Europe” says Prof. Marcus Volp, in a video made in collaboration with Silicon Luxembourg.
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SnT Graduate Wins FNR Outstanding PhD Thesis Award
Learn moreCongratulations to Dr. Aakash Arora, a now graduated doctoral researcher of the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), who has been awarded the Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR) Outstanding PhD Thesis Award.
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Studying CubeSats: A Look into the Orbit
Learn moreAt the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), students of the Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) can handle and develop miniaturised satellites, known as CubeSats. The CubeSatLab is a centrepiece of the ISM, and provides facilities that allow students to fully understand this revolutionary technology.
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New publication: Monetary policy and venture capital markets
Learn moreThe paper Monetary policy and venture capital markets (Christian Fisch with Cristianno Bellavitis and Silvio Vismara) was published in the Review of Corporate Finance.
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How Dark Patterns Manipulate Internet Users Every Day
Learn moreAs humans, we make hundreds of decisions in a day – and we like to think that we are free and autonomous. However, the truth is that we can be easily influenced. Marketers and vendors have known influencing strategies for as long as they’ve existed, but now such tactics exist on the digital platforms we…