Links and News

57% of israelis own a Smartphone, a fact that ranks Israel as the 2nd highest country with regard to smartphone penetration rate. The Ynet report on a survey done for Google by IpsosMediaCT also reveals where Israelis use their smartphones and

Travelling to California

I will be travelling to attend the Israeli-American National Academy of Sciences‘ Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium program at Irvine, California. I will be there from the 14th to the 18th of June. Afterwards, I will fly to the Bay Area, to give a

Congratulations to Gabi and Omer for their Excellence Scholarships

Congratulations (and a big Mabruk) to Gabi Cohen and Omer Barak! They just received the faculty’s excellence scholarships for graduate students. Both Gabi and Omer are working on identifying patterns in mobile location data.

PRISM, Group Meeting and links

Oshrat’s presentation from the group meeting about How to Read a Paper is here. The Washington Post published some slides about PRISM, a secret national security program in the U.S., in which NSA taps to servers of companies such as Microsoft, Google,

A Talk at the Minerva Center for Human Rights – Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Eran will give a talk about Cybersecurity, technologies and their impact on privacy, in the Minerva Center for Human Rights, at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University. The talk will be at June 11th, 10:30, Mairsdof House, Mt. Scopus Campus,

A talk about human factors of privacy and cyber-security

Cannot get enough human factors of privacy and cyber-security? Eran will give a 2.5 hour presentation about the usability of privacy and cyber-security, on Sunday, May 26th, at 15:10, The Schreiber building for Computer Science, room 106 (ground floor).

Yet Another Talk: IBM Haifa Research Labs

Eran will give a talk on Monday, May 6th, 15:00-16:00 at IBM Haifa Research Labs. The talk will present the group’s current work, framed in the context of systems that enable information sharing between people and  organizations. Here is the