On Saturday, 30. September 2023, 13:00-18:00, there was Vísindavaka 2023, the Icelandic family-friendly-during-daytime edition of European Researchers' Night 2023 at Laugardalshöll.

With 6500 visitors, we had even more guests than last year. The Computer Science department of University of Iceland had a booth there, showcasing some of their research:

• Cybersecurity: Eyvör/NCC-IS, the National Coordination Centre Iceland for Cybersecurity will start 1st of October with full force using co-funding from the European commission. The Computer Science department of University of Iceland is part of it and we will show three pieces to raise awareness:
• Has my user info (in the worst case: my password) been leaked? Look up who else owns your login data: https://haveibeenpwned.com
  Note: if your data shows up there to have been leaked, then this is not your fault, but the fault of the website that was storing your data in an insecure manner and you should change your password at that website (also check whether the password has been leaked or only, e.g., your email adress). However, it is your fault if you use the same password for multiple websites: should your password leak from one website, criminals will try that password on other websites and will have success if you use the same password there. Use different passwords for different services. Even better: use multifactor authentication, i.e. not just a password that can be easily leaked, but in addition something that can be less easily stolen, such as your phone: an authenticator app running on it, an SMS sent to your phone number, or the Icelandic digital ID on your SIM card.
• An online quiz on how good you are at identifying phishing emails, i.e. emails trying to trick you into providing information, e.g. passwords: https://cybersecuritymonth.eu/quiz (Note: solutions not provided online -- you need to visit us to get hints where you were wrong and where you were right!)
• A flyer for kids: Hvernig á að vera öruggur á netinu
• CoE RAISE (Centre of Excellence for Research on AI- and Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale) gives a glimpse into artificial intelligence by using a neural network that runs purely in your browser without any connection to a super computer. Simply use the camera of your smartphone (or laptop) to detect objects in real-time -- just open the following web page and allow your browser to use the camera: https://nvndr.csb.app/
  
  (Allow some seconds, up to a minute, for loading the trained model and initialisation.)
• Interaction design with sketches on a huge touch screen:
• A 3D scanner that scans the shape of your ear: used in CoE RAISE in order to find with AI out how the shape of your ear influences how you hear from different directions.
  
• A remote sensing demonstration that relates also to work done in CoE RAISE where neural networks are used to classify land cover from satellite images: Compete against a neural network to classify land cover!
  
• Quantum computing: a new piece to show, therefore no photos yet -- you really need to come and see!

See you at Laugardalshöll!