Information and Communication Technologies
Information and Communications Technologies research is, naturally, mainly the preserve of electronic engineers and computer scientists.
The Centre for Communication Systems Research is the largest academic grouping in communications in Europe. Research covers systems for wireless and mobile communications beyond 3G, satellite and fixed networks, higher layer applications areas, new services and sensor networks.
The Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing engages in research on multimedia signal processing and multimodal sensory data analysis. The focus is on developing high level machine perception technology and the centre has strong links to Sound Recording from the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences.
In Computing research focuses on the software aspects of secure communications in Formal Methods and Security group, communications in complex systems in Digital Ecosystems group and machine learning/intelligence in Biologically Inspired Modelling and Applications.
Outside of the main contributors to this theme, researchers in the Advanced Technology Institute are developing new electronic and opto-electronic devices and technologies for hardware systems while researchers in the Ion Beam Centre are using experimental and theoretical studies to push the frontiers of novel device development.
