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JRA7 (Internet as Critical Infrastructure) met in Munich in October 2012

Submitted by heiko.niedermayer on Mon, 22/10/2012 - 14:40

JRA7 on Critical Infrastructures held a meeting in Munich at Technische Universität München (TUM) on October 1st and 2nd 2012. Participants discussed a variety of issues on the subject, ranging from Smartgrids to Automation and Control systems.As more and more infrastructure gets connected to and via the Internet, Internet Science has to consider such infrastructures and their needs. Interdisciplinary aspects are an important issue, e.g. the need to interact with domain experts or the need to consider the human factor with the help of social, economic, and other sciences.

Amsterdam Privacy Conference presentations

Submitted by oostveen on Sun, 14/10/2012 - 18:08

The EINS project was represented at last weeks Amsterdam Privacy Conference by colleagues of JRA5.

After climbing the seemingly never-ending flights of stairs of the Felix Meritis building beautifully located on the Keizersgracht, the audience was treated to a two-hour session on 'Privacy, Identity, Reputation and Trust' chaired by Joris van Hoboken.

You find the presentations by Isolde Sprenkels & Irma van der Ploeg, Ralf de Wolf & Jo Pierson, Anne-Marie Oostveen and Sally Wyatt attached to this blog post.                                                           

W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond

Submitted by ian.brown on Sat, 13/10/2012 - 05:12

Over the last year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been standardizing a Do Not Track signal that users can enable in their Web browser to request that advertisers do not target adverts based on browsing history.

Conference Announcement: For Your Eyes Only (Brussels, 29/30 November)

Submitted by benzevenbergen on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 15:00

For Your Eyes Only
International Conference on Privacy, Empowerment and Technology in the context of Online Social Networks
29. and 30. of November, 2012

http://www.foryoureyesonly.be

Venue:
The Egg
Barastraat 175
Brussels, Belgium

We warmly welcome you at the “For Your Eyes Only” International Conference on Privacy, Empowerment and Technology in the context of Online Social Networks in Brussels on 29. and 30. November 2012.

OECD work on Internet of Things - The liberalisation of the SIM-card or what to learn from IP-interconnection

Submitted by benzevenbergen on Thu, 04/10/2012 - 12:00

During the JRA4 meeting in Turin on 10 September 2012, Rudolf van der Berg of OECD gave a guest lecture about the internet of things, or machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. He compared IP-interconnection with the SIM-card system. The former is an open system, which works well without stringent competition laws. The latter is controlled by few and is therefore a restricted system with huge potential for a mobile “internet of things”.

Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2012

Submitted by oostveen on Wed, 03/10/2012 - 18:12

 On Tuesday the 9th of October a panel on ‘Privacy, identity, reputation and trust’ will be organised by JRA5 at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2012 .

Letter from the ACM President: Where is the Science in Computer Science

Submitted by thomas.plagemann on Thu, 27/09/2012 - 10:32

Probably many of the IT related project members have read Vinton G. Cerf's Letter in the recent Communications of the ACM. It is short and to the point and should be for Internet Science equally relevant than for Computer Science.Communications of the ACM, 10/2012, Vol 55 No 10the digital version can be found at: http://mags.acm.org/communications/201210/?CFID=119905246&CFTOKEN=740085... 

Workshop on Internet Trust, Reputation, Identity and Privacy

Submitted by ian.brown on Thu, 27/09/2012 - 08:33

Issues of individual trust in the use of personal data, the reputation of online services and users, and identity management tools are never far from the headlines. EINS is organising a one-day workshop on 4 December to bring together university and industry researchers working on these topics. Co-located with Social Informatics 2012 in Lausanne, it will have a particular focus on multidisciplinary perspectives that bring together researchers in the humanities and social sciences with mathematicians, engineering and physical scientists.

National Science Foundation interdisciplinary work on Internet architecture

Submitted by chris.marsden on Sat, 22/09/2012 - 13:43

The involvement of lawyers and economists as well as computer scientists (see Nebula team members: http://nebula.cis.upenn.edu/members.html) should be of great interest for the European Internet Science community. EINS member Jonathan Cave recently attended a NEBULA workshop at UPenn."In the summer of 2010, NSF funded four projects as a part of this program.

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