This October the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and Startup Estonia organized a Cyber Security hackathon, which was attended by almost 100 developers, designers, experts, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in order to create new cyber security solutions, for the benefit of humanity. Out of 17 pitched ideas 10 teams were formed. The winner […]

From 1st to 5th July 2019 the annual Cyber Security Summer School (C3S), which was organized by the Institute of Computer Science, took place in Voore, Estonia. The topic of the C3S was “Blockchain: Applications and Security”. The main objective included an introduction of the key concepts, principles and techniques on the blockchain technology, their […]

On the 12th of June, Toomas Krips defended his PhD on „Improving performance of secure real-number operations“ in which he describes methods on how to improve real-number computations on secure computations. In the following blog post, Toomas tells a story on secure computations, real numbers and his doctoral thesis. There are two main components of […]

Noored Koodi meeskond korraldas 16. veebruaril juba teise IT-alase võistluse, kus osales kokku üle 45 õpilase üle Eesti. Päeva jooksul said osalejad end proovile panna virtuaalreaalsuses, programmeerimiskeele Python tundmises, algoritmikas ja veebilehe loomisel. Üritusel külastati virtuaalreaalsuse laborit. Päev algas võistluse korraldaja Magnar Varese tervitussõnade ja projektijuhi Heilo Altini ning Magnari tutvustusega sellest, kuidas nad IT valdkonda […]

Ehsan Ebrahimi is a doctoral student at the Chair of Security and Theoretical Computer Science. He defended his doctoral thesis thesis “Post-Quantum Security in the Present of Superposition Queries” on January 21, supervised by Professor Dominique Unruh. Here is an overview of his work. Quantum Computing. Have you heard of Quantum Computers? Scientists and engineers are […]