School of Computer Science and Statistics
In this educational tool the learner acts as the Minister for Transport and the challenge is to meet the national 2030 and 2050 carbon emission targets for the transport sector. The parameters in the simulation would include the options available to the Minister, how much do they cost, what reductions will they bring, how politically … Read more
Microworlds are a type of computer simulation which have proven to be very powerful tools with which to create effective learning experiences. (For example see one developed in a previous final year project how different Electoral Voting systems work.) The scientific method is central to how science progresses but is not well understood by many … Read more
Microworlds are a type of computer simulation which have proven to be very powerful tools with which to create effective learning experiences. (For example see one developed in a previous final year project how different Electoral Voting systems work.) How a country uses its land, be it for different types of agriculture, forestry, recreation, housing … Read more
Coastal areas are at high risk from storms and associated flooding and erosion. This risk is projected to increase due to climate change. At the same time, many coastal natural features act as natural buffers in that they either divert or reduce flood waters or the energy of waves travelling towards the coast. There are … Read more
https://test.defo.ie has a bunch of automated test of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) based around a python test generation framework, and use of scripting and selenium for headless browser tests. The project is to a) replicate that setup on another machine, and b) propose and implement enhancements to the test setup that can later be added … Read more
We contributed the code for the experimental Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) feature to the curl project. As curl is just a client, current ECH tests require use of an external ECH-enabled server, which is undesirable. The project’s goal is to make progress on devloping curl ECH tests, which likely requires development of a test server … Read more
The Bundle Protocol (BP, RFC9171) is a delay tolerant transport protocol. The project is to survey available BP implementations, to setup interoperability testing for a subset of those, to report on results found and possibly to propose improvements/fixes where interoperability issues are discovered.
Email is inherently a delay-tolerant application. However, modern email deployments involve online checks used by anti-spam mechanisms, non-standard UA/MS interactions, MFA client authentication and hop-by-hop encryption all of which can be problematic in the face of high delays or disruptions, and perhaps especially at scale. The project here is to analyse how significant delay and … Read more
Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a field of Computational Linguistics that sits at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing – aiming to effectively extract salient linguistic features from visual data of sign language users. Recent SLR research has centred Machine Learning approaches, however, these methods typically rely on large-scale datasets which are … Read more