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 […]

On June 7, Mohan Liyanage, who is an assistant in the Chair of Distributed Systems defended his doctoral thesis “A framework for mobile web of things” in which he presents an energy efficient lightweight mobile web service provisioning framework for mobile sensing utilizing the protocols that were designed for the constrained Internet of Things environment. […]

Digital games producer Edvin Aedma tells us how one presentation from Keith Devlin inspired him to take up teaching game development and how it affected UniTartuCS. Sometimes before 2012, Keith Devlin visited Institute of Computer Science at University of Tartu and gave a rather fascinating lecture about the synergy between teaching mathematics and videogames. I […]

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 […]