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DRONA: Transforming IT Projects with Artificial Intelligence

Digitalisation is becoming increasingly part of our daily lives, and has been an ongoing process for many decades now. A consequence of this is that, when it comes to financial services, if a business wants to launch a new product or implement new regulations, their success will often lie within their own IT processes. This…

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University Ranked in Top 10 Globally for Software Engineering Research

Examining the entire spectrum of software development, from its very early stage of inception to maintenance, software engineering (SE) is part of an industry in constant movement, and a discipline distinguished for its impact in the research world. In order to gain a deeper understanding of its evolution in the latter, a bibliometric study of software engineering themes,…

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ArianeGroup and SnT Hold the First Space Propulsion Summer School

On 14-15 September 2021, the ArianeGroup Launcher Academy and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) held their first Space Propulsion Summer School (SPSS). The online event was designed for the students of the Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) and open to all engineering students. Interested participants from Luxembourg and the Greater Region were also invited to attend, but the event saw the participation of students and…

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SnT Experts Talk FinTech and Space at ICT Spring 2021

ICT Spring 2021 took place on 14-15 September at the European Convention Center Luxembourg, as well as online. The tech conference gathers business decision makers, innovation managers, startups, researchers and venture capitalists from all over Europe. The event was structured in various summits and side events, such as the FinTech Summit and the Space Forum, and it featured…

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Introducing the Space Systems Engineering Research Group

Andreas Hein loves space and complex systems. He joined SnT on 1 September 2021 as Head of the new Space Systems Engineering (SpaSys) research group, where he plans to research disruptive future space systems. He also recently held a session at ICT Spring 2021, a two-day global tech conference hosting international professionals in FinTech, Cybersecurity and Space Technologies, which took place on the 14 and 15 September in Luxembourg. We spoke…

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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…