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Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger visits ATHENE

As part of her summer tour this year, Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger visited ATHENE. Our researchers presented their findings in the areas of network and software security, disinformation and IT law. The minister also visited the ATHENE Cyber Range, a defence training course for IT employees that combines the advantages of a realistic simulation platform with best practices and updates on cyber innovations.

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LOEWE Top Professorship for Prof. Carsten Binnig

ATHENE researcher Prof. Carsten Binnig has been awarded a LOEWE Top Professorship at the TU Darmstadt. The state of Hesse is supporting the research project "Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)" as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

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ATHENE researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser retires

Computer researcher Prof. Max Mühlhäuser has taught and researched at TU Darmstadt for almost 25 years. He has been involved in ATHENE since the predecessor centre CASED was founded and is now one of the coordinators of the ATHENE research area User-centered Security and Privacy (UCSP). He will be retiring in a few months.

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ATHENE paper accepted at prestigious S&P

The paper "Investigating Voter Perceptions of Printed Physical Audit Trails for Online Voting", written in collaboration with ATHENE researchers, has been accepted at the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P).  S&P is the premier forum for leading inter­national experts in research and practice to discuss the latest developments in computer security and electronic privacy.

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