TagoWill – Tiago Martins Andrade

Bawdsey Radar Virtual Reality Experience

An opportunity to immerse yourself in the history of Bawdsey with our exclusive virtual reality (VR) experience. You will be able to experience first-hand what it was like to climb one of the four huge 360 foot Transmitter Towers which once stood on this site.

The VR experience has been developed in collaboration with a team of BT apprentices based at Adastral Park. An ex-RAF base which would have sent fighters out to intercept planes detected by the radar systems developed and operated at the Bawdsey site during WW2.

You can try out the new virtual reality experience for yourself, which is included in normal admission charges (online booking available), on the following dates:

Sunday 7^th August
Sunday 14^th August
Sunday 21^st August
Sunday 28^th August

Blending history and technology to create a more engaging learning experience – STEAM in action!

Technology has become an increasingly large part of our lives in recent years, but it is important to remember the importance of arts and humanities subjects as well in the curriculum. This project is just one example of how the technology and arts can be combined to create otherwise impossible experiences.

For those interested in more technical details:

Read how this application is an example of how virtual reality can be used to assist historical learning with an analysis of user trial feedback in the linked research paper https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9815997

To hear more about how the application was developed check out this podcast covering all things in the realm of extended reality where Adam Morsman (Project Lead) and Ben Newman (Head Developer) attend as guests:

CyberUK 2022

#CyberUK is the UK Government’s flagship cyber security event showcasing the UK’s expertise, capabilities and partnerships in cyber security. The two-day event saw thousands of attendees from the government, Police and the Ministry of Defence, as well as key industry professionals and academics.

So happy to be at the centre of the exhibition with my VR project, an interactive demo of the Virtual Security Operations Centre (VSOC) and a piece of immersive training application called Human Firewall VR. More exciting was to meet Damian Hinds (MP, Security Minister) and Steve Barclay (MP, Minister of the Cabinet Office).

#Engineering #DigitalFutures #Innovation

E&T award nominee

Very proud to announce that I been shortlisted for an E&T Innovation Award for the Cyber Security category.
Good luck for all the nominees and looking forward for the online ceremony.
http://ow.ly/JB6d50Gt2DK

Stage 1 winner of #PresentIn10 Competiton E&T

It was an excellent experience to be part of the #PresentIn10 Competition organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (#IET). I was able to present my idea on how #VR can change and improve the way we work from home and suprised for winning the Stage 1 award of the competition.

Not only allowed me to present my ideas and train my pitch, but it also allow me to connect with other people and learn from other topics being presented.

Even though I wasn’t able to progress to the final stages of the competition, it was a superb way to improve my presentation skills and connect with others. If someone has an engineering idea to share, I recommend applying for next year event, because I definitely will be there again 😁

#Engineering #DigitalFutures #Innovation #WFH #WorkingFromHome #VR #AR #MR #Competition #YoungProfessionals

A brief discussion on Security is XR

Mind the XR is back with a special episode where we talk about Security in XR devices. We invited Max Smith-Creasey, a continuous authentication expert, to discuss how can we join both worlds and make XR more secure.

We explore the different vulnerabilities, raise some ethical problems and malicious intentions that these systems can get. We also debate how we can protect ourselves or at least mitigate all of these problems.

Have a listen to this great conversation.

BT – The insider’s view

Really happy to share my story in ‘BT – The insider’s view’.
In this interview, I talk about my work and what motivated me and my team to create an award-winning paper about XR.

British Science Week

It’s day 1 of our very first Virtual BritishScienceWeek hosted by Adastral Park! Explore the world of CyberSecurity with our team of experts from BT. (try to find me 🕵️)

VSOC at AI Festival 2021

Alex Healing shows us BT’s AI security tools that monitor the internal network for threats and show where they are coming from to enable the security team to action. Alex also gives a teaser of VSOC work at minute 8. Give it a look.

Winning Award

Our paper received the Best Presentation award at the 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics.

Very happy to receive this along with my colleagues Max and Jonathan. 2020 was a challenging year for all in many ways. The transition of most conferences to an online only format made it much easier to submit and attend in greater numbers, but there’s definitely a challenge to presenting over video. It’s great to hear that our presentation was selected as being outstanding amongst all of the other excellent and engaging talks.

Author: TagoWill