Jamie Munro

Abstract - Raspberry Pi based project aiming to provide remote environmental control and monitoring for reptile keepers. The system provides a live video feed of the enclosure, real-time temperature and humidity monitoring, and configuration of 3 power outlets. Presentation Introduction Reptiles are a popular type of exotic pets that many

As part of a group project, my partner and I created an interactive visualisation that attempts to show how political views in Europe have changed over the last twenty years, and how some of these changes are correlated with major world events. You can view the visualisation here: https://www.

Introduction Pantheon (https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201575) is a large, manually-verified dataset of individuals who have had globally famous biographies written about them. This is an attempt to create an effective visualisation of this dataset that can answer three open ended questions. The visualisation was designed using the 5-sheet

Introduction In recent years, “Smart Motorways” have been rolled out across the UK. These are sections of motorways that make use of active traffic management techniques to increase capacity and reduce congestion [1]. Smart motorways are monitored via automated (MIDAS vehicle detection) and manual (CCTV) methods [2] and the techniques

Foreword This post discusses the creation of a 2D space shooter game based on my simple 2D tile engine. The game uses a custom controller that will require 2 BBC micro:bits and a not insignificant ammount of setup to play. The micro:bits offer a more interesting and challenging

Abstract This document discusses the results of a branch prediction simulation experiment. The simulator was implemented in C++ and supports 6 different prediction strategies. The results gathered are analyzed and discussed in order to assess the effectiveness of each strategy. Introduction Most modern CPUs utilise the so-called “5-stage pipeline” – splitting

As the first step in developing some 2D games, I have developed a simple 2D tile based game engine based on the Processing rendering library. I will probably attempt to port this over to a more advanced library at some point in the future. Check out my code and a

In a final year group project, myself and a number of friends formed a small research group experimenting with different methods of using artificial intelligence to generate images. We decided to generate cartoon (anime) faces as we were able to find a suitable dataset online (https://www.kaggle.com/splcher/

Abstract – Passwords are not as secure as many would hope and most current generation 2nd factor authentication methods are inconvenient or expensive. The use of typing rhythm as an authentication method is an attractive alternative to existing methods. The background of typing rhythm is explored. Using a custom keylogger and

This document reports the findings of the information gathering phase of a penetration test against two organisations. The first organisation, which is UK based, is the political party currently running the UK government, the Conservative Party or Conservatives. The second organisation, which is based in the USA, is the political

This is a presentation on "Economics of Mandatory Cybersecurity Breach Reporting" which is a research paper published in 2016 by Stefan Laube and Rainer Böhme. Original paper: https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/2/1/29/2629554 Powerpoint download: https://www.jbm.fyi/static/breach_reporting.pptx Economics

1. Introduction “Secure and Trustable Electronic Medical Records Sharing using Blockchain” is a research paper published in August 2017 as part of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium 2017. The paper was authored by five researchers: Alevtina Dubovitskaya MS (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, École polytechnique fédérale

This article concerns a software development project conducted as part of my Honours degree at the University of Surrey. The purpose of the project was to gain exposure to the complete software engineering process, including design and implementation. This project was split into two parts. The first part is a

This article discusses one of my early forays into Artificial Intelligence as part of a project during my Honours degree at University of Surrey. The project looks at basic applications of Artifical Intelligence and is split into four parts: 1. Recognising Printed Text 2. Recognising Handwritten Text 3. Recognising the

Experiments with occupancy grid-based multi-robot simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) for simple low-cost mobile robot platforms utilising low-bandwidth short-range communications and range-only sensors. This article concerns my final year project for my honours degree at the University of Surrey. The project explores the concept of using a swarm of simple

1 INTRODUCTION This project is part of a  (University of St Andrews) CS5020 practical that has the goal of creating a “Rough Guide to the Internet”. The guide is made up of 20 chapters, where each chapter is an interactive experience focusing on a particular aspect of computer networking. This

Introduction This article is a compilation of research regarding peer-to-peer networks that was later used to create an interactive education museum exhibit. You can find out more about the exhibit in this article and view the exhibit itself here: https://www.jbm.fyi/roughguide/ What are Peer-to-peer networks? Peer-to-peer, Peer2Peer

Abstract This paper will provide an overview of the state of the art of driverless cars, focusing on the communication systems they employ. The technical underpinnings of these technologies will be explored, accompanied by an evaluation. Looking forwards, the future direction for these technologies will be discussed. Keywords – Autonomous Vehicles,