CASL Researchers Maksym Romenskyy and Dr Vladimir Lobaskin's new study of animal swarms uncovers some new features of their collective behaviour when overcrowding sets in.

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Congratulations to Prof Gary McGuire, Dr Jens Zumbragel, Dr Faruk Gologlu and Dr Rob Granger for achieving a world record by cracking a code used by the security industry for credit cards and bank account details.

Using the supercomputer at ICHEC the team from the Claude Shannon Institute solved a famously difficult conundrum known as the discrete log problem.

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The UCD IADT Science Expression Films will be screened this week in Dun Laoghaire as part of an exhibition called Ingenious and will feature the award winning CASL movie Breaking Ground

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CASL's NCRA Group is featured in today's Irish Times Innovation supplement. Focusing on the work of CASL researchers Prof Anthony Brabazon, Dr Michael O'Neill, and the PhD students of Dr O'Neill's research group, the article is an elegent and accessible introduction to Natural Computing.

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EgoNav Analytics, a new software venture which has developed a novel solution for identifying and highlighting real-time fraudulent behaviour in large customer datasets, has won a runner-up NovaUCD 2012 Start-Up Award as part of University College Dublin’s 17th NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme.

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Engineers and scientists must be prepared to build for what does not exist, according to coding and information theory veteran Professor David Forney.  Speaking during a recent visit to UCD's Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL), Prof Forney said scientific research is characterised by the unknown and it can often take time before the merits of a particular field of research become obvious.

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UCD researchers, Dr Anthony Chubb and PhD student Kevin O’Brien, working with Conway Fellow, Professor Denis Shields in the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) are harnessing the donated computational power of personal computers to find new targets for anti-malarial drugs.

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Dynamic WiFi Positioning using Physical Layer Parameters for Location-based Services and Security 2 Ph.D. and 1 M.Sc. Studentships Available

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Experiments in optics have confirmed a 35 year old theory predicting that intense nonlinear waves can evolve periodically.  This result may point to a previously unsuspected class of rogue wave behaviour on the ocean.

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Prof Scott Rickard originally asked for Chris Bean and his team to help him solve a source separation problem in heart sounds, the topic of CASL postgraduate Aishwarya Moni's PhD thesis. One unexpected turn later, Moni, Bean, Lokmer (a postdoc with Chris Bean), and Rickard have published a paper in the highest impact factor publication in electronic engineering, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, which applies Rickard's DUET Source Separation algorithm to Seismic Data.

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The only advanced European research award in Ireland for distinguished research in the area of Physics.  Prof Frederic Dias is jointly leading the Multiwave project, a €1.8 million study, with optics expert Prof. John Dudley from the Departments of Physics and Optics at the University of Franche-Comté and the CNRS in France.  The only award of its kind, the Multiwave project will literally shed light on the mysteries behind freak waves in the ocean - by looking at how such waves can arise in optical systems.

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Millions of hours of computational time solves the ultimate Sudoku problem. As all Sudoku enthusiasts know, a proper Sudoku puzzle must have only one correct answer. But until now, it has been mere conjecture that the minimum number of clues needed to complete the puzzle..

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Prof Scott Rickard's TEDxMIA talk "The beautiful math behind the ugliest music" is now on the main ted.com site where it has been viewed 80,000+ times! When combined with the tedx/youtube views - it been watched over 250,000 times!

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CASL ACE Award 2012 - CASL research award for Achievement, Contribution and Excellence.

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The Clique Research Cluster was featured in the Innovation Section of The Irish Times on Friday 28th October. In the interview, Clique director Prof. Pádraig Cunningham explained the motivation for network analytics, and how the group’s research is strongly influenced by the commercial challenges faced by its industry partners.  Read article here.

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Evolution solutions, computer style

How can you harness the powerful force of evolution to help crack down on money laundering? Or to come up with better buildings, communications networks and animations?

Taking tricks from the natural world and using them in computer software is opening up new opportunities to tackle problems and boost design processes, and Dr Michael O’Neill at Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory in UCD is forging ahead.

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Congratulations to Clique researcher Martin Harrigan who has won an Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education research grant. The grant is for $10,000 USD in AWS credits, which can be used to use Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure.

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If you have ever paid for something online with your credit card, you have probably wondered whether prying eyes could view your precious account information as you sent it into the ether. Of course, protecting valuable communications is not new...

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