TNO borrel lecture: typosquatting and the PowerMatcher Algorithm

TNO is the "Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek". They connects people and knowledge to create innovations that boost the competitive strength of industry and the well-being of society in a sustainable way. An example is a project about the earth quakes in Groningen.

Wilco and Gerben come by to tell about their work at TNO:

Gerben Broenink: typosquatting
Ever since domainnames exist, typosquatters can register domains which look like other domains. (For example: www.googel.com and www.belastingdeinst.nl) As a result, many internet users accidentally visit the wrong website, causing damage to the original website owner. However, how can we detect these misuses of domainnames? During this presentation, the possible impact of typosquatting will be showed as well as some developed tooling to detect typosquatting.

Wilco Wijbrandi: The PowerMatcher Algorithm
The way we use our power grid is changing. We want to integrate more renewable energy sources, which do not provide a reliable energy production. Since electricity is very expensive to store, it is very hard to balance production and consumption. At the same time we start to use electricity for new applications, such as charging electric cars and heating buildings. These changes have a huge impact on our power grid, and which will be expensive to maintain if we don't do something.
TNO is developing new technologies to solve these issues with ICT. In this presentation I will explain the algorithms behind the PowerMatcher, which is a highly scalable optimization solution for matching electricity production and consumption.

Afterwards a free borrel will take place! We can also order some cheap food together in our Coverroom.