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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…

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Consortium to Define Luxembourg’s Quantum Communication Infrastructure

In a press release from late-July, SES announced their plan to develop satellite-terrestrial infrastructure and the roadmap for wider European integration that will define our next-generation of cybersecurity. Joining in this endeavour will be InCert, iTrust consulting, LuxConnect, LuxTrust and SnT.

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The Research Centre Shaping the Future of Technology

Here at SnT, we have been partnering with institutions for more than 10 years, leading to the creation of highly relevant and competitive research in information and communication technology. Over this time, we have gathered nearly 60 enterprises as part of our Partnership Programme, and helped them to address the real challenges facing their sectors…

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Pioneering Space Technology in the Heart of Luxembourg

Since our first journey to the Moon over 50 years ago, worldwide efforts to explore further beyond now depend on our ability to extract resources from space to use in expeditions. Currently, astronauts going up into space are limited to staying within reach of the Earth, as they need access to food and supplies. If…