27 September 2022, by Maximilian Häring, University of Bonn Do you trust the persons writing the software you use not to have malicious intent? Or the company they work for? The answer is probably „yes“ for most software. How do you judge that? Modern software is built with many software packages from other developers. So, … Read more
27 September 2022, by Eva Gerlitz, University of Bonn Hi! I am Eva, a Ph.D. student at the University of Bonn, and I spent the last one and a half months in Glasgow. My research interests lie in the field of usable security, especially concerning authentication and expert users, such as developers and administrators. I … Read more
13 September 2022, by Isa Inuwa-Dutse from the University of Hertfordshire, and Salma ElSayed from Abertay University Introduction/Overview Crowdsourcing involves the act of engaging a wide collection of diverse individuals to work on a paid or voluntary activity submitted by requesters. The individuals or participant are not constraints by geographical location. Prolific is an online … Read more
13 September 2022 by Ipshita Roy Chowdhury, University of Stirling I am a current PhD student in the division of Computing science at the University of Stirling. I have attended the Analytics, Data Science & Decision Making Summer School at the Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex from 25th July-29th July, 2022 … Read more
6 September 2022, by Katarina Alexander, Edinburgh Napier University This year’s IRDTA Deep Learn Summer School took place in Gran Canaria from July 25th – 29th. The summer school was both in-person and online, with the majority of the nearly 500 participants coming to the island. The three keynote speakers – Wahid Bhimji, Joachim M. … Read more
5 September 2022, by Dr Juraj Sikra, University of Strathclyde “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Wittgenstein On my way to Amsterdam, I was thinking what the research into improving cybercrime reporting really needs. I thought that to do research that convinces the government to take cybercrime more seriously, I … Read more
24 August 2022, by Dorian Gouzou, Heriot-Watt University Hi, I’m Dorian, a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University studying machine learning applied to medical imaging. I am (already) finishing my second year and realised that I spent my PhD learning about the different imaging modality I work with, and experimenting basic machine learning on it, which … Read more
19 August 2022, by Tiwonge Msulira Banda, Robert Gordon University We all know that an electric motor gets hot when it is running. But do you know that the heat coming from the motor poses a big challenge to engineers that design motors? More generally, have you ever wondered how electric machines, e.g. motors or … Read more
19 August 2022, by Adrián Javaloy, University of Saarland, Germany Hi, I am Adrián, a third-year PhD Student at the University of Saarland, Germany. While Machine Learning has become ubiquitous to our society, often times these systems struggle when presented with data coming from different sources (for example, images and their respective captions). My research … Read more
16 August 2022, by Tudor Ferariu, University of Edinburgh Hello, my name is Tudor Ferariu and I am a first-year PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. My research topic is automating formal verification for smart contracts for the Cardano blockchain. Proving the absence of bugs is very expensive, and large sums … Read more