E-Vote-ID is an international and annual meeting for electronic voting specialists from all over the world. This years conference was a great success with two keynotes and over 100 participants, included from as far as Fiji, Ecuador and Australia.
Melanie Volkamer, Professor in Computer Science at Karlstad university was part of arranging this years conference which was arranged 18–21 October 2016 in Bregenz, Austria.
This was one of the questions that the IT consultancy firm Tieto tried to sort out when they gave a lecture on the mobile networks in the past and in the future to over 70 IT students at Karlstad University at the autumn semester first Snits lunch.
Currently the development of the next generation mobile net 5G is in progress, which will lead to revolutionary changes for users and operators.
Martin Blom, researcher within Computer Science at Karlstad University visited a class of high school students at Thoréns Business School 30 October to answer the question – what is Science?
- Science is the chase for truth, says Martin Blom. To find the truth and the answers to specific questions which we search the truth about we use sceintific methods.
On 8 October the fifth edition of the Karlstad Programming Contest took place. The event is organised by Computer Science at Karlstad University. A record number of teams participated and tried to solve difficult programming tasks.
The Karlstad Programming Contest is a leg of the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC), which takes place simultaneously at 19 Nordic universities and university colleges.
For some, anonymity on the internet is a necessity. Researchers at Karlstad University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Princeton University have discovered a new attack against the Tor anonymity network that uses the Domain Name System (DNS).
Tor is the world’s largest anonymity network with around two million daily users, and it is used to avoid surveillance and to circumvent censorship online.
There was strong demand for places at the 11th International IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity held in Karlstad, Sweden last month thanks to recent changes in EU data protection regulations and the emergence of smart Big Data.
Around 90 people attended the interdisciplinary program, which ran from 21-26 August, focusing on data protection and information privacy from technical, legal, ethical, HCI and industrial perspectives.
Thirty-five PhD students presented t
During summer the research within Computer Science at Karlstad University has received attention. At the WoWMoM 2016, the 17th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Karlstad University was awarded on both Best PhD student paper and Best Demo.
Computer networking is one of the profile areas for the research group within Computer Science at Karlstad University.
The fifth edition of Karlstad programming contest is arranged at 8 October by Computer Science at Karlstad University. The contest is part of the Nordic championship, Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest.
The contest takes place in teams with up to 3 persons who shall solve a dozen tasks with programming in C, C++, C#, Go, Java, Objective-C or Python.
Icomera develops and delivers systems for wireless Internet in public transportation such as buses and trains. Computer Science at Karlstad University pursues research towards a faster and better Internet. Together they will create the network services that meet the needs of a more mobile world.
Buses and trains in a sense resemble tin cans, which severly attenuate radio signals, preventing mobile internet connection if you are inside.
The first European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) took place in middle of july, in Darmstadt's "Darmstadtium". It was a success with more participants then expected, roundabout 90 persons joined the workshop, and inbetween the presentations there were lively discussions from various perspepctives.
All in all 22 papers from 77 authors from Europe, but also from the United States, Canada, Brasil, India and Pakistan had been submitted.
On 25–27 August, twelve doctoral students embarked on an international research programme as part of the European network Privacy&Us at Karlstad University.
Simone Fischer Hübner, professor in Computer Science at Karlstad university has received the ”William Winsborough Memorial Award” for her work in the field of privacy and security on the internet.
In his doctoral thesis, Johan Eklund, lecturer in computer science at Karlstad University,
shows how SCTP and multihoming can be applied to real time traffic. Real time traffic is not only dependent on data being delivered correctly, but also on time.
Different types of real time traffic have different time demands. Some traffic (hard real-time traffic) is strictly dependent on being delivered on time.
Computer Science at Karlstad University has successfully recruited a new professor to its excellence research on data security and privacy. Melanie Volkamer works on human factors in security and privacy.
- Often it looks like security contradicts usability. That is, the more secure it is, the less usable it is.
