Melanie Rieback, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, gives an overview of the security and privacy issues concerning Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. As a a "white hat hacker", she showed how she was able to break RFID systems in order to show to other people how to fix them.

A designer and researcher at Oslo School of Architecture, Timo Arnall offers here his perspective about networked objects and ubiquitous computing. His presentation, and the intriguing design examples he takes, highlights two phenomena. On the one hand, he describes how sensors and RFIDs can enable to "make things visible" as the title of his presentation expresses. On the other hand, he shows the importance of going beyond screen-based interactions.

Dr. Melanie Rieback is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Melanie’s research concerns the security and privacy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and she leads multidisciplinary research teams on RFID security (RFID Malware) and RFID privacy management (RFID Guardian) projects. Her research has attracted worldwide media attention, appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, UPI, Computerworld, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and many other print, broadcast, and online news outlets. Melanie’s research has received several awards (Best Paper: IEEE PerCom ‘06, Best Paper: USENIX Lisa ‘06, NWO I/O Prize, VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award finalist), and Melanie has also served as an invited expert for RFID security discussions with both the American and Dutch governments. In a past life, Melanie also worked on the Human Genome Project at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research.

On february 27, in the “New frontiers” lecture Melanie Rieback will discuss the evolution of security with regards to RFIDs.

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