CISS in new Centre of Excellence MT-LAB

We all know the feeling of frustration that arises when our computer shuts down with an unknown error or freezes and refuses to react when we move the mouse. In comparison, the embedded computers in washing machines, stereos and cars practically always work. As yet, the researchers have not managed to transfer the methods that are applicable to relatively simple and isolated technical systems to larger complicated computer systems that need to be able to communicate with each other - but CISS intends to help change that.

In collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark and the IT University of Copenhagen, CISS is a part of the VKR Centre of Excellence MT-LAB which was opened in November. The centre has received a grant of DKK 25 million from the Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation, and it is the hope of the participants that by combining their numerous research competences, they will be able to make complicated systems as secure, reliable and resource-economical as the smaller systems we know from our current everyday lives. This will open the door to a future in which we will be able to actualise the vision of intelligent homes and workplaces and electronic patient records in hospitals - to name a few examples.

Managing Director of CISS, Professor Kim Guldstrand Larsen, is vice director of the centre which will hold its official opening event in Copenhagen on November 19.

Read more on the centre's website www.mt-lab.dk