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SnT Team wins Facebook Software Testing Competition
En savoir plusWhen Facebook develops new features, they rely on software-quality engineers to ensure that everything will work according to plan. When their tests indicate a problem, these software-quality engineers spring into action and begin tracking it down.
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SnT Researcher Takes Team to Robotics Youth Olympics
En savoir plusIt’s not always easy being a researcher in automation and robotics. Tell someone what you do, and there’s a good chance they’ll ask you if you’re planning on automating their job.
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How a research partnership wins awards
En savoir plusDoctoral researcher Amin Sleimi and senior research scientist Dr Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, part of SnT’s SVV requirements engineering team, won a Best Industrial Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’19) in South Korea.
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The thing I like most about SnT? Multiculturalism.
En savoir plusSerket Quintanar Guzman is from a little city about 3 hours south of Mexico-City. Through her academic network, she was introduced to professor Dr. Holger Voos.
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Two FnR Inter Grants Awarded to SnT
En savoir plusWe’re pleased to announce that the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and their partners at Luxembourg’s Funds Nationale de la Recherche (FNR) have awarded two of our own — Professor Jean-Sebastien Coron and Professor Sjouke Mauw — with their prestigious INTER Grant. The INTER Grant is a highly competitive grant that is open…
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It Wasn’t Me: Deniability in a Post-Quantum World
En savoir plusThe quantum supremacy — the point at which quantum computers will begin to outperform traditional computers — is just around the corner. Quantum supercomputers will be able to execute ultra-complex calculations so fast, it will leave our laptops looking like abacuses, and their processing power will drive dramatic advances in fields such as pharmaceutical, AI…
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I Came to SnT to Create Something from Scratch
En savoir plusProfessor Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo joined SnT in 2014. He previously led a research unit at the University of Lisbon and came to Luxembourg to build a new group focused on tackling extreme threats to critical infrastructures. We sat down with him to find out what keeps him looking for new challenges.
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Saving Lives at the Sharp End of Software Engineering
En savoir plusAccording to the last major study in IT project failures, conducted by McKinsey and University of Oxford, half of all large IT projects “massively blow” their budgets. These large projects (defined as IT projects starting out with a budget of over $15 million) on average exceed their budgets by about 45%. In fact, the 5,400…
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Cybersecurity Buffet with Diversity on the Menu
En savoir plusIn 1986, two programmers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, started receiving phone calls from all over the world. Angry phone calls, from angry IBM PC users demanding that the brothers disinfect their machine from a virus that was slowing down the floppy disk drive.
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How to Stop Ransomware in its Tracks? Take Away its Tools
En savoir plusRight around the time that the WannaCry ransomware began to wreak havoc globally, SnT’s Ziya Alper Genç, had a big idea. ‘It became my obsession,’ says Genç. ‘I had this idea that I just couldn’t let go.’ What Genç dreamt up was a method for preventing ransomware from encrypting files in the first place —…