Cryptologist Daniel Slamanig is investigating how today’s encryption methods can be rendered fit to ward off future attacks. Not even powerful quantum computers should be able to harm them. Continue reading “New threats to our old data”
In a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Graz is developing methods to make graphics hardware for video games more flexible for use with various applications. This also has an impact on the programming of supercomputers. Continue reading “Making gaming hardware fit for new tasks”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Innsbruck has explored how the local accuracy of weather forecasts for snowfall can be improved by means of past weather observations. Continue reading “Statistics for snow forecasting”
In a project funded by the FWF, a research group from Vienna has investigated how a wide variety of employee scheduling issues can be analysed within one umbrella framework and solved with the help of computers. Continue reading “How computers help to find the optimal schedule”
In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Graz is investigating how fat for the production of biodiesel can be produced using genetically modified yeast cells. Continue reading “How to extract biofuel from yeast cells”