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ECS is home to a variety of fascinating and practical research. Our Research Spotlights series illuminates the deep corridors of Cotton Building to bring you the latest exciting advancements from the school. You may be surprised at just how eclectic our work is!

Computer Science and Engineering

Honeypots

PhD student Christian Seifert and his supervisors, Dr Peter Komisarczuk and Dr Ian Welch, are on the hunt for malicious web sites. Using ECS computers, they roam the World Wide Web looking for malware and attempt to discover and automatically classify the sites responsible. The work has serious implications for all web users, and could be used to help Google improve their search engine warnings.

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Tutte Polynomials

Dr David Pearce has been collaborating with Gary Haggard at Bucknell University in the United States to unravel the computation of Tutte Polynomials, a structure seen in our very own DNA!

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