Finland Section Student and Gold Activities

Our first IEEE GOLD seminar in the Helsinki area was held on Tuesday 26th of May 2009 and proved to be a success with many new people in attendance! Maciej Borkowski, our GOLD Chair, opened the seminar by giving a fun introduction to the IEEE and the student and GOLD activities in Finland and internationally.

Next, Janne Lindqvist, a researcher in systems security and privacy at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering gave a talk about the research topics of the Data Communications Software research group. He gave some interesting examples about how much personal information leaks from a regular network connected computer, without the user realising it.

The last speaker was Nie Pin, also a researcher in the Data Communication Software group, and recently active with IEEE GOLD. First he presented the NordSecMob Master’s Programme in Security and Mobile Computing and then gave two very interesting demos with the assistance of Zhihua Jin:

• wireless sensors that could by themselves adapt the transmission power to the optimal amount, thus preserving battery power
• session transfer of streaming video from one computer to another, e.g. from a fixed computer with a big screen to a smaller mobile device for traveling

A big thank you to all attendees and speakers and organisers!

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