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In-space machine learning experiment
For the first time, Luxembourg researchers have launched their very first own in-space experiment called AI4Space. This project will test machine learning algorithms to detect temperature anomalies in satellite systems in a more advanced way than is currently done.
On 12 June, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg launched AI4Space, its first very own in-space experiment. Hosted on a Skykraft satellite, the SnT system departed from the Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard a SpaceX rocket. The host satellite is currently enroute to its final destination in Low Earth orbit, where it will be deployed and tested before kickstarting SnT’s experiment. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Space
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August 4, 2021 8:30 AM
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Here at SnT, our own Prof. Tegawendé F. Bissyandé has won a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grant to research new tools that will revolutionise the way software repair — especially the bug response process — is handled. His project, NATURAL, will explore how natural language processing (NLP) technology can be used to automate the bug-response process. Bissyandé’s ERC grant is a Starting Grant, which supports up-and-coming young researchers with stellar research track records. It provides the NATURAL project with a total of 1.5 million Euros in funding. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=SnT
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October 24, 2019 4:13 PM
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On Thursday 24 October 2019, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) and the University of Luxembourg’s Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) signed, in the presence of Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna, a partnership agreement in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
The agreement is aimed at positioning Luxembourg as a European centre of excellence and innovation in the field of AI applied to state-of-the-art financial data processing techniques.
As the supervisory authority of the financial sector, the CSSF faces mounting challenges. Civil society demands effective regulation of the financial centre, including minimising financial risks, whereas professionals of the finance industry ask for improved responsiveness. Claude Marx, Managing Director of CSSF, explained: "Faced with these challenges, the CSSF has implemented its CSSF4.0 strategy. This will be a big step towards achieving close to real-time supervision".
As part of this strategy, the CSSF will increase investment in agent training, review work processes and make extensive use of new digital technologies, such as AI, machine learning and other tools commonly applied throughout the FinTech sector. It is as part of this CSSF4.0 strategy that the CSSF and SnT have begun their partnership. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg https://www.scoop.it/topic/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=AI https://www.scoop.it/topic/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg
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July 31, 2018 4:58 AM
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The smartphone – one of the most important resources for a refugee. It helps them stay in touch with family back home and it is also a way to stay abreast of current affairs or talk with other refugees. On another note, smartphones provide access to the Internet and, consequently, to information portals of local administrations. The problem for migrants, however, is that many of these official websites are simply unnavigable. The information is hidden behind puzzling menus, written in officialese, or provided in English and French but not in Arabic.
This prompted SnT scientist Prof. Dr. Charles Max to develop the smartphone platform youarewelcome.lu for refugees. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Refugees https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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April 26, 2018 3:13 PM
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Jean-Sébastien Coron, Associate Professor in cryptography at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded the prestigious “Advanced Grant” by the European Research Council (ERC). Funded by the European programme Horizon 2020, Jean-Sébastien Coron and his team will receive up to € 2.5 million over a period of five years to conduct research in cryptography at the University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT).
The ERC Advanced Grant is the most prestigious individual research grant in Europe and already the third to be awarded to a SnT affiliated researcher.
Emergence of new encryption tools
During the past thirty years, cryptography has become more and more common in all areas of life, from the Internet to voting or banking systems. Two promising techniques have recently emerged to reinforce the privacy and security of citizens and organisations. On the one hand, homomorphic cryptography is a mathematical tool which enables work on encrypted data without decrypting it. For instance, companies could encrypt their cloud-hosted databases and operate on them without converting records back to plaintext. On the other hand, cryptographic multilinear maps have revolutionised the domain with the emergence of indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), a cutting-edge method that conceals a programme’s code but preserves its functionality.
“Despite these advances, the security of multilinear maps is still poorly understood and many iO schemes have been broken. Moreover, all constructions of iO are currently impractical: obfuscating a program adds huge delays, effectively slowing down running times,” observes Professor Jean-Sébastien Coron.
As leader of the Applied Crypto Group (ACG) at the Computer Science and Communications (CSC) research unit of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication, Prof Coron will therefore investigate combining these two methods to find the best solution. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=ERC
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May 10, 2017 11:30 AM
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Professor Björn Ottersten, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded an Advanced Grant (AdG), the most prestigious award offered by the European Research Council (ERC).
Björn Ottersten will receive 2.5 million Euros in funding over the next five years. He will use the grant to develop a novel overarching technical framework that could be used to simplify the design and operation of complex systems in different areas such as automotive radar, caching, and wireless networks. This is the second ERC Advanced Grant to be awarded to Luxembourg-based researchers, with both recipients at SnT.
Many automated systems, such as parking assist systems in cars, process data acquired from sensors and make decisions autonomously based on machine learning, a sub-field of artificial intelligence. However, such systems can be enhanced using mathematical models. For example, in parking assist systems, a mathematical model provides methods for focussing the scan area around the vehicle to obtain reliable data about the scene. The intelligent algorithms will then better recognise from the sensor data that there is, for example, a bin and a person nearby. The model will automatically focus attention on the person as the critical element. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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March 15, 2017 10:12 AM
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SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
The SnT conducts internationally competitive research in information and communication technology, ICT, with high relevance creating socio-economic impact. In addition to long-term, high-risk research, SnT engages in demand driven collaborative projects with industry and the public sector. Therefore the centre has set up a Partnership Programme with now 32 members targeting strategic areas addressing challenges confronting industry and the public sector in ICT. These resulting concepts present a genuine, long-lasting competitive advantage for companies in Luxembourg and beyond.
SnT has undergone a rapid development since its launch in 2009; recruiting top scientists, launching over 40 EU and ESA projects, creating a technology transfer office (TTO), protecting and licensing IP, launching two spin-offs, and creating a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment with some 260 people. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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August 12, 2016 8:16 AM
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This summer, Luxembourg became the first country in the world to invest in asteroid mining, with a pledge of €200m ($223m) in funding for the space-mining industry.
Yet the country thinks it has more to offer the sector than just money: it also hopes to inject its intellectual capital into the mix.
Luxembourg is mobilizing homegrown talent at the University of Luxembourg to help private asteroid-mining company Deep Space Industries develop robotic technology for its prototype exploration spacecraft.
The University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT) will develop an optical vision system for the company's experimental Prospector-X spacecraft.
The research group at the University of Luxembourg's Automation and Robotics Research Group, which is part of the university's SnT Centre, has built up expertise in robotic automation and unmanned aerial vehicle vision systems. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Space
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March 23, 2016 9:20 AM
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Professor Lionel Briand, FNR PEARL Chair and Vice Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg, has been awarded an “Advanced Grant” by the European Research Council (ERC) for his research in the field of software reliability and security. He is the first Luxembourg-based researcher to receive an Advanced Grant, the most prestigious of the European Commission grants. Briand will be receiving 2.3 million Euros in funding over the next five years. This funding adds to a series of recent successes at the University of Luxembourg in acquiring research funding, including two ERC Consolidator Grants.
Briand’s research programme “Testing the untestable (TUNE)” focuses on improving testing methods for highly complex, software-intensive systems whose dependable operation is of critical importance. Examples include decision and assistance systems in aircraft and vehicles, information systems in financial institutions, and control systems in power and nuclear plants, where any failure would pose a serious risk. Relying on models of the system and its environment, together with advanced artificial intelligence techniques, Briand’s research tackles the problem of bringing more automation and effectiveness to the testing and verification of such systems, which are inherently difficult to test. The ultimate goal is to increase their dependability (reliability, security, safety) within time and resource constraints. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=University+Luxembourg
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February 27, 2023 3:28 PM
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Quatre étudiantes et un étudiant du Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine et du SnT prendront la direction de la Floride ce mardi 28 février. Les mini-cerveaux sur lesquels ils travaillent depuis un peu plus d’un an embarqueront à bord d’une fusée de SpaceX pour la Station spatiale internationale. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/topic/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Space
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November 28, 2019 5:59 AM
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November 23, 2018 7:44 AM
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Le bras technologique de l’Uni a signé jeudi un partenariat avec la fintech basée à la Lhoft. L’objectif est de développer une nouvelle architecture de plate-forme numérique beaucoup plus sécurisée par rapport aux solutions proposées aujourd’hui.
C’est un projet qui implique encore une grande part d’inconnu, et cela le rend d’autant plus excitant. «Nous avons un large espace de manœuvre pour notre recherche, mais l’idée est de redéfinir le mode dont nous pensons la conception d’une plate-forme autour de la blockchain pour la rendre encore plus sûre», s’enthousiasme Radu State, expert en sécurité des réseaux au SnT. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Blockchain https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=SnT https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Cybersecurity
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June 7, 2018 2:19 PM
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Foyer s’allie au SnT sur la conduite autonome
Pour Foyer, avoir une expérience directe sur cette nouvelle technologie est crucial pour comprendre son fonctionnement, mais aussi obtenir les données qui lui permettront de calculer le risque et concevoir des contrats d’assurance sur mesure.
L’assureur luxembourgeois a signé un partenariat avec l’institut de recherche appliquée de l’Uni et son projet de conduite autonome, lors du SnT Partnership Day, ce mardi. Son objectif est d’anticiper l’impact qu’aura cette technologie sur le marché.
Le développement au Luxembourg d’un système de conduite autonome de niveau 4, sur une échelle de 5, est une aubaine que Foyer ne pouvait pas laisser passer. Comme ses concurrents, l’assureur cherche à mesurer l’impact des véhicules autonomes sur le marché des assurances.
Avoir une expérience directe sur cette nouvelle technologie est donc crucial pour comprendre son fonctionnement, mais aussi obtenir les données qui lui permettront de calculer le risque et concevoir des contrats d’assurance sur mesure. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Autonomous+driving
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February 1, 2018 2:26 PM
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The Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg has entered a collaborative research partnership with financial firm Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, and consulting firm escent. Over the next four years, a joint research project will explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be used to simplify and standardise requirements analysis for IT projects in the financial industry. The project aims eventually to render processes more cost- and time-efficient.
In IT projects, stakeholders must clearly and precisely define user requirements to decide, with the agreement of all stakeholders, on the necessary capabilities and characteristics of a system. This task is especially laborious in the financial industry because of strict legal and regulatory provisions and the multiple stakeholders involved. The new strategic initiative, run in collaboration with escent, a consulting firm specialised in business analysis and requirements engineering, looks to automate the laborious analysis tasks present in Clearstream’s already mature IT system requirements engineering practices.
Requirements typically contain content written in both software modelling and natural descriptive languages. Reconciling the two can be a significant challenge. The objective is therefore to develop software solutions enabling analysts to consistently manipulate – and detect inconsistencies between – both types of content. Further, the project will develop tools to derive acceptance criteria – the ‘pass or fail’ conditions a system must meet in order for it to be accepted by a client – from these requirements documents.
Prof. Lionel Briand, Vice-Director of SnT, emphasised the importance of precise and consistent requirements: “Nearly 50% of budget overruns in IT projects are caused by inadequate requirements which ripple through system design and deployment. Together with our partners, we will work at the cutting edge of new technology to introduce automation to the requirements engineering process - reducing incompleteness, inconsistency, and ambiguity to a minimum - and facilitating the analysis of system compliance.” Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=AI https://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=University+Luxembourg
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May 4, 2017 4:19 PM
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The first LuxBlockHackathon will be held on 8th & 9th May 2017 at SnT Luxembourg. Organized by Melufina, a blockchain Think tank created by Radu State (SnT), Evan Schwartz (Ripple) & Frank Roessig (Telindus).
Over 10 teams with 50+ blockchain coders are coming to Luxembourg from San Francisco, Kiev, London, Paris, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Cologne… and will be working with Stellar, Hyperledger, Ethereum, Monero.
The best-of-the-best seek a blockchain solution to a Financial Sector Challenge.
During this 36-hour event, the teams have to build an innovative blockchain-based solution to a challenge affecting the Luxembourg Financial Industry. The hackers will also have the option to work-off secured nodes provided as part of the InfraChain initiative by various players, notably Telindus. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Digital+L%C3%ABtzebuerg http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=Blockchain http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?&tag=SnT
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February 8, 2017 11:55 AM
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Scientists at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg have developed an important mathematical algorithm called “Equihash”. Equihash is a core component for the new cryptocurrency Zcash, which offers more privacy and equality than the famous Bitcoin. Zcash came into operation as an experimental technology for a community-driven digital currency in late 2016. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=University+Luxembourg
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July 20, 2016 10:43 AM
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The startup LuxAI was created following a research project at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) under its Proof of Concept scheme. The business model of LuxAI is developing and constructing so-called social robots.
Such robots can be used, for example, in the educational or health system, where they would support trainers and therapists in their work. The robots can be programmed to practice vocabulary with children or to make rehabilitation exercises with stroke patients. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Universit%C3%A9+du+Luxembourg
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In-space machine learning experiment
For the first time, Luxembourg researchers have launched their very first own in-space experiment called AI4Space. This project will test machine learning algorithms to detect temperature anomalies in satellite systems in a more advanced way than is currently done.
On 12 June, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg launched AI4Space, its first very own in-space experiment. Hosted on a Skykraft satellite, the SnT system departed from the Vandenberg Space Force Base onboard a SpaceX rocket. The host satellite is currently enroute to its final destination in Low Earth orbit, where it will be deployed and tested before kickstarting SnT’s experiment.
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