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SnT Hosts Stream at Luxembourg Blockchain Week
En savoir plusLast week saw SnT host a day of the Luxembourg Blockchain Week, an event centred around the importance of blockchain in modern-day Luxembourg. The event began on Monday 26 April, with five days of conference and more than 70 speakers – including a keynote speech delivered by the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Xavier Bettel, as well as founders from many institutions in…
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Technoport S.A. and SnT Partner To Support Start-up Talent
En savoir plusThe Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at The University of Luxembourg and Technoport S.A. have signed a partnership agreement. The goal of this collaboration is to provide business mentoring services to SnT researchers, and to create joint networking opportunities for SnT researchers and the technology companies hosted by Technoport. The partnership was announced through Silicon on Wednesday.
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Remembering Paul Helminger
En savoir plusThis past weekend saw the announcement that Paul Helminger, former Luxembourg City mayor and SnT research fellow, has died at the age of 80. On Saturday 17th April, the prime minister Xavier Bettel announced his death via Twitter.
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ETAPS 2021: Q&A with General Chair Peter Ryan
En savoir plusThe 2021 European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practical Software (ETAPS) were held in March this year under the general chairship of SnT’s Prof. Peter Ryan. ETAPS is an umbrella event covering four smaller sub-conferences, focusing on programming, software engineering, computation structures, and systems analysis respectively. Bringing these four conferences together into one event offers…
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Developing 5G Communications on the Moon
En savoir plusAs countries and companies worldwide reach advanced milestones in the new space race and prepare for future missions to the Moon, a number of technical aspects have yet to be defined.
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LuxAI Develops At-Home Robot To Help Children With Autism
En savoir plusSince LuxAI’s inception as a spin-off of SnT in 2016, their QTrobot has received international praise for its success in engaging with children who have autism. On Friday 2 April, World Autism Awareness Day, they announced their expansion into social robots for the home.
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How We Help Tackle Cyberfraud In Africa
En savoir plusCOVID-19 catapulted the world into a predominantly online shopping market on an unparalleled level to any event witnessed before in modern times. While some of us wouldn’t think twice about making online transactions, in developing countries these can be even more susceptible to fraudulent attacks due to insecure networks.
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Students Design Groundbreaking Satellite
En savoir plusIn less than two semesters, the first cohort of students in the Interdisciplinary Space Master (ISM) have successfully conceived, designed and developed GOLDCREST, a CubeSat project launched as part of their studies with the aim to measure Earth soil moisture from space.
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Inspiring The Next Generation Of Scientists
En savoir plusEvery year, Attert-Lycée Redange hosts the Journée de l’Orientation, an annual event to help their students determine their potential career paths and choose a future area of study. Last Friday, Dr. Jan Thoemel, a Research Scientist at SnT presented his experience as an engineer and scientist to the students.
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IEEE WONS Conference: Raphaël Frank is the New General Chair
En savoir plusThe IEEE Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS) conference has been the home of a small community of wireless connectivity researchers for the past 17 years. Each year, the event welcomes roughly fifty participants for three days of exchange over their latest research.