Andrea Tonello and his former PhD student Alberto Pittolo received the prestigious IET 2016 Premium Award for the Best Paper published in IET Communications over the past two years

The paper “Physical layer security in power line communication networks: an emerging scenario, other than wireless” is a landmark paper that sheds new light on the information theoretic limits for secure communications in power line communication (PLC) channels.

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Größte deutschsprachige Fachtagung der Informatik in Klagenfurt

Unter dem Leitthema „Informatik: von Menschen für Menschen“ findet die INFORMATIK 2016 von 26. bis 30. September 2016 in Klagenfurt statt. Read more

Das Wissen der Welt organisieren


Das National Cancer Institute in New York hat über 160.000 logische Sätze zu Krebserkrankungen gesammelt. Mit der Wissensbasis will man Zusammenhänge zwischen  Symptomen, Genen und potenziellen Ursachen analysieren. Konstantin Schekotihin arbeitet gemeinsam mit Forschern der Stanford University an deren Verbesserung.

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“I never made plans”


Samira Hayat follows a single plan: She wants to be able to focus on the things she really cares about. The electrical engineer from Pakistan talked to ad astra about the research work that is currently most important to her.

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