In July 2016, ERCIM News 106 was published: ercim-news.ercim.eu/en106. This issue featured a special theme on Cybersecurity, in which three articles from the Netherlands were published and one from Belgium. Another article from the Netherlands, on the 100th birthday of former CWI (MC) director and informatics pioneer Aad van Wijngaarden, was published in the Research & Society section.
Contributions from the Netherlands and Belgium to the Cybersecurity special theme of ERCIM News nr. 106 are:
- Deprecating an Internet Security Standard with Cryptanalysis by Marc Stevens (CWI, interviewed by Annette Kik, CWI)
- Flexible Decentralised Access Control using Invitation-Response Dialogue by Arthur Melissen (Coblue Cybersecurity)
- Client-Server Framework for Securely Outsourcing Computations by Thijs Veugen (TNO)
- Security Assessment of Software Security: A Closer Look at White-Box Cryptographic Implementations by Joppe W. Bos and Wil Michiels (NXP Semiconductors, Belgium)
And the article on Van Wijngaarden and his role as informatics pioneer in the Netherlands and Europe:
- International Informatics - Aad van Wijngaarden’s 100th Birthday by Gerard Alberts (UvA)
The keynote, Cybersecurity: A Key Pillar of the European Digital Single Market is written by Afonso Ferreira (DG CONNECT, European Commission, on leave from the French CNRS) and Paul Timmers (DG CONNECT, European Commission)
ERCIM News 106 is also available for download in pdf and ePUB.
Next issue: No. 107, October 2016 - Special Theme: "Machine Learning - current trends and new paradigms" (see Call for contributions). Deadline: Friday 26 August 2016.
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