As our wonderful Indian Summer draws to an end its time to welcome winter, and for me one of its highlights are the annual series of free public Gibbons Lectures. With the Heartbleed Bug recently in the news alongside the US government mass surveillance of us all, as revealed by Edward Snowden, computer security and privacy has never been more topical. As a consequence this years Gibbons Lectures have the theme Keeping Secrets: Privacy and Security in the Information Age. All of the talks are on Thursdays at 6.30pm, with the public invited from 6pm for free refreshments. The venue is room 260-092 on level-0 of the Owen Glenn building at the University of Auckland on Grafton Road (parking is available under the building.) The schedule is:
1st May: What does Privacy Mean to New Zealanders in the Internet Age?Professor Miriam LipsSchool of GovernmentVictoria University of Wellington8th May: Security in Mobile DevicesDr Giovanni RusselloDepartment of Computer ScienceThe University of Auckland
15th May: Public Key Cryptography: Computation, Cash and John NashAssociate Professor Steven GalbraithDepartment of MathematicsThe University of Auckland22nd May: The Psychology of Computer InsecurityDr Peter GutmannDepartment of Computer ScienceThe University of Auckland from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/
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