Digital Forensics Conference Grabs Media Attention in the Middle East

The 2nd International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C 2010) attracted the well-deserved attention of most print and broadcast media in the host country, the United Arab Emirates.  Articles both pre- and post conference appeared in prestigious media outlets such as The National, Gulf News, Al Bayan and Khaleej Times (article 1, article 2) but interviews also aired on various television channels.

UCMedia Participants Share their Impressions on YouTube

The 2nd International ICST Conference on User Centric Media (UCMedia 2010), collocated with the 4th InterMedia Open Forum, attracted media professionals and researchers to Palma de Mallorca on 1-3 September. Participants not only exchanged their views and generated new ideas during the event, but also posted them on the video-sharing platform, YouTube. An uncut version of the currently posted twelve interviews – conducted by Manuel Elviro Vidal and Massimo de Faveri – is available at

http://www.youtube.com/user/UserCentricMedia

CHINACOM Presents a Diverse Program and 9 Best Paper Awards

CHINACOM 2010, the 5th edition of ICST’s International Conference on Communications and Networking in China, took place on 25-27 August in Beijing with the participation of over 200 international attendees, media partners and cooperating societies such as IEEE VTS, IEEE MTT-S, and IEEE CVTC.

The conference featured four workshops, two tutorials, three keynote speakers, four special sessions and eight symposia. Nine papers were selected for the prestigious Best Paper Award by the Technical Program Committee; their presenters received the plaques from Keynote Speaker Weihua Zhuang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada) at the Gala Dinner.

UAE Ministry of Interior and Ernst & Young to Sponsor ICDF2C

ICDF2C 2010, the second edition of the annual international ICST conference series, is a key event enabling information exchange and knowledge-sharing among academics, forensics experts and government officials on the most burning issues of Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime.

ICDF2C is being organized in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, the cosmopolitan metropolis of Abu Dhabi on 4-6 October 2010, and aspires to attract participants from around the world to discuss research findings and current practical challenges and solutions in the subfields of financial crimes: money laundering, fraud, identity theft; digital forensics training and education; forensics processes and procedures; the interconnectedness of digital forensics and law; cyber crime investigations; software piracy; cyber terrorism; criminal psychology and profiling, just to name a few.

SecureComm to Host Global Security Challenge for 2nd time

SecureComm 2010 – the 6th edition of the successful International ICST Conference Series on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks – invites participants to vibrant Singapore this year (7-10 September 2010).

The conference brings together security and privacy experts from academia, the corporate world, and the governmental sector, as well as practitioners, standards developers, and policy makers. Participants will engage in a discussion about common goals and explore important research directions in the field of secure communications and networking.  SecureComm 2010 also serves as a forum to learn about state-of-the-art advances in security and privacy research, being the host of the Asian Regional Final of Global Security Challenge (GSC) 2010.  

Simulation in Focus at SIMUTools 2010

SIMUTools 2010, the 3^rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques, took place in Torremolinos, Spain on 15-19 March.

The 3-day program included 14 technical sessions, a poster session with 14 posters, two invited talks by George Riley (Georgia Tech, U.S.A.) and Ben Lauwens (R.M.A., Belgium). The 3 keynote addresses included “Algebras and Languages for Molecular Programming” by Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, U.K.) , “The role of the simulation for a network operator: a survey” by Antonio Elizondo (Telefónica I+D, Spain), and “MANET Simulation Studies: Reversing The Incredibles” by Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A.).