Universite Bordeaux 1 Guest Professor appointmentadministrator - posted July 2009
Hamid Asgari was nominated and has subsequently been appointed as “Guest Professor” of Bordeaux 1 University at its CNRS Lab (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - National Centre for Scientific Research in France). Hamid will visit the university for a period of one month (between Oct and Nov 2009). This appointment is aimed at promoting research collaboration and establishing links between university and industry, especially Thales research centres. Hamid will work closely with researchers at the university's CNRS Lab, identifying opportunities for research, and providing lectures in relevant subjects. | TRT (UK) University of Reading Prizeadministrator - posted July 2009 
Reading University student Joseph Smith won this year’s Thales Research & Technology (UK) Ltd prize for the best MEng/BEng final year project. Jo’s project concerned the design, development, implementation and testing of a prototype low-cost digital audio mixer for the amateur market. He carried out the work during a 6 month placement at Soundcraft in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, who tasked him with investigating the potential benefit of using Oxford Digital’s “Tiny DSP Core” as an alternative to the SHARC processor used in professional mixers. After analysing the performance and feasibility of the Tiny DSP Core, Jo concluded that it was not cost-effective using the currently available hardware.
The photo shows Jo being presented with his prize on Graduation Day, Saturday 4 July 2009, by Edward Stansfield from TRT, a Visiting Industrial Professor in the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. Jo received a trophy (pictured), a certificate signed by John Howard, managing director of TRT (UK), and a cheque for £150. | Thames Valley Economic Partnership Innovation eventadministrator - posted June 2009
On 21 July 2009, TRT together with The Thames Valley Economic Partnership (TVEP) held a business event on Commercialising Innovation, which included guest speakers from University of Reading and the Thames Valley Innovation Growth Team. TRT presented our approach to innovation using nuVa and FH-UWB as two case studies from the original idea to product and we summarized our experiences and lessons learned along the way. Following the formalities, many of our guests had hands-on time with nuVa, and networking went on until 8pm when our last guest left.
More information about nuVa and FH-UWB can be found here. | Paper presented at SENSORCOMM 2009administrator - posted June 2009
Sarah Pennington participated in The Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2009) in Athens on 18th–22nd June. Sarah chaired two sessions and presented a paper jointly authored by Sarah, Tim Baugé and Ben Murray. The paper, entitled, “Integrity-Checking Framework: an In-situ Testing and Validation Framework for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks”, describing some of the wireless sensor and actuator network work done by TRT (UK) within the SENSEI project. The paper was commended and won an award as one of the best papers presented at the conference.
Further details of the paper can be found at Technical Publications 2009 | Institute of Mathematicsadministrator - posted May 2009
At the Institute of Mathematics AGM and Summer Lecture on 24 June 2009, Edward Stansfield was presented with a 'Certificate of Service' in recognition of 'dedicated service and contribution to the Institute as Vice President of Engineering and Professional Affairs'. Edward's term as Vice President finishes in December this year after the maximum allowed 4 years service. | TRT (UK) University of Surrey MSc Prizeadministrator - posted April 2009 The Thales Research and Technology Project Prize of £200 awarded for the best project dissertation in the University of Surrey's new MSc in Security Technologies and Applications has been jointly awarded this year to two winners. These were Ian Golledge, for his dissertation entitled "Identifying and Classifying Electronic Spam", and Aaron Randal, for his dissertation entitled "Authentication and Self-Restoration of Watermarked Images". The award was presented to the winners by Dr Adrian Waller from Thales Research & Technology (UK) Ltd. at a graduation ceremony at the University of Surrey on the 2nd April. | IET Lecture "Tracking fire fighters using Ultra Wide Band (UWB)"administrator - posted March 2009
Gabriele Donà and Graeme Burden presented a lecture entitled “Tracking fire fighters using Ultra Wide Band (UWB)” to the Electronics, Control, Communication and Computing (EC3) specialised section of the Berkshire Network of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on the 23rd April 2009 in the Gordon Theatre, Engineering Building, at the University of Reading (UK).
In many emergency situations, particularly within buildings and other challenging environments such as forest fires, safety and co-ordination of operations is hampered by lack of knowledge of the exact location of the emergency personnel. Whilst the emergency services already make use of satellite positioning, once personnel enter more challenging environments, this location service is unavailable.
This lecture introduces the technology developed at Thales Research and Technology (UK) to fill this capability gap, by combining Ultra Wide Band (UWB) signals with satellite positioning to determine the location of fire fighters in forest areas.
The full presentation can be viewed here.
More information about IET EC3 | Marie Curie Fundraising Activities administrator - posted March 2009 
Staff at TRT (UK) have again been busy raising monies for Marie Curie Cancer Care with a variety of activities.
Technical Director Terry O'Sullivan spent time helping in the staff restaurant making sandwiches and Human Resources Manager Dawn Myers (top photo) worked on reception as part of the charity's "Back To The Shop Floor" scheme. Staff sponsored their efforts to the tune of £286, which was then matched by the company.
Together with a very popular sale of cakes (see bottom photo), cookery books and equipment the total raised was over £890.
Marie Curie Cancer Care is one of Thales UK’s corporate charities. The charity provides Marie Curie Nurses who care for terminally ill people in their own homes, surrounded by the people they love the most. |
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