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A Precision Radar for Performance Athletes

There’s an arms race going on in the world of sports — a technology arms race. Each year, new devices are introduced to sports clubs and elite athletes around the globe, which promise improved performance thanks to new insights into the athlete’s unique physiology and biomechanics. “It might sound nitpicky, but a small adjustment for a serious…

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The Autonomous Robot Swarms Protecting and Observing Space

The device you are using to read this article is based on a centralised, monolithic architecture – a processor core steering a number of other components into executing tasks. Most of our technological systems work this way, because it’s us humans who lead, telling them what to do – we are the intelligence.

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University of Luxembourg Achieves its Highest THE Research Score

The annual round-up of top universities across the globe for 2022 was published yesterday, with the University of Luxembourg ranking in the top 300. Including more than 1,600 universities in the world, The Times Higher Education (THE) rankings are considered to be the most comprehensive and renowned list of rankings worldwide. Each centre is graded…

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Spuerkeess Partnership Explores New Insights into Blockchain Security

Luxembourg bank Spuerkeess joined forces with SnT in 2018 to investigate how they address the security of blockchain based services, as an important step towards understanding and managing the risks of real world blockchain deployments. It’s a multi-faceted project that will end in March 2022, but – as a side achievement – their research has…

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Using Mathematical Logic to Make Computer Systems More Reliable

Having joined SnT in 2020, Joshua Dawes is a postdoctoral researcher in the Software Verification and Validation (SVV) research group. His research interests lie in the fundamental research necessary to analyse the behaviour of programs, and the engineering work necessary to apply program analysis in an industrial context. Today he shares with us details of…

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Preventing Fraud, Saving Billions & Saving Lives

As the demand for a product rises, so does the appeal for developing its counterfeit. In the eyes of a criminal looking to make a quick buck, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a breeding ground for counterfeit potential. With a vaccine being the most desired product in the world right now, and most countries struggling…

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The Opportunities and Challenges of AI in Retail Banking

AI is changing the way the world does business — but its impact on retail banking has only just begun. To keep pace with looming shifts in the sector, retail banks need to take steps to implement AI for an optimised impact on their value stream.

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Computer Vision Research Helping Companies Achieve Success in Space

Gone are the days where the space industry was dominated by the public sphere. The new space movement has seen a commercialisation of the sector that is enabling more and more companies to join in an exciting race to the stars. In fact, it’s private companies that may enable us to go further than we…

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ISM Students Program Rovers to Find Water Ice on the Moon

On Wednesday 30 June, first-year Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) students took to SnT’s LunaLab, an environment that simulates the Moon’s surface, to test their rovers in finding resources. In a semester that has shown them what the space industry of tomorrow has in its sights, their focus has been on building and effectively programming a ‘LeoRover’, one…

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ActInSpace Winner is Accepted into the Interdisciplinary Space Master

Back in November 2020, the Space Robotics Research Group at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg launched a challenge in the framework of the ActInSpace hackathon. ActInSpace is a global event created by the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) and the European Space Agency (ESA), bringing together space innovators from around the world with…