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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…

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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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