| Joly MacFie on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:17:05 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime-ann> ISOC-NY Event: Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope – NYU 3/25 |
. [Live webcast - this Thursday - Please fwd widely] The Internet Society is dedicated to preserving an Open Internet where all users can communicate freely with each other. Increasingly mechanisms are appearing that might, for whatever reason, inhibit such activity, especially when such communications go through central servers. Our ISOC-NY event this week will introduce a viable alternative. On Thurs. Mar 25 ISOC-NY will host Prof. Jinyang Li in a talk about the use of distributed systems, and particularly the use of the Kaleidoscope Firefox plug-in, in circumventing censorship. This is part of her ongoing research into "exploiting the real world social relationships among users to improve the security and reliability of open distributed systems." All are welcome to attend, it will be webcast live and questions may be asked via the chatroom. There will be an .ogv archive. What: Jinyang Li – Censorship Circumvention via Kaleidoscope Where: Rm. 102, Warren Weaver Hall NYU, 251 Mercer St NYC When: Thursday Mar 25, 7:00pm, Who: Public Welcome. Admission Free. Sponsors: ISOC-NY, NYU-ACM Webcast: http://livestream.com/isoc-ny More info: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1485 About Jinyang Li: Dr. Li is a graduate of the University of Singapore (1998) who completed her PhD in routing dynamics at MIT in 2006. After designing a multichannel MAC protocol at UC Berkeley, she has been teaching and researching distributed networks at NYU. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2008. Current projects include cooperative distributed storage (Friendstore), censorship circumvention (Kaleidoscope),wide area distributed file systems (WheelFS) and high throughput multi-radio wireless mesh networks. http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/ About Kaleidoscope: Kaleidoscope that uses social networks to spread the word about anonymous proxies via a trusted social network. The software has two components, a Firefox plugin for the notifications, and a backend that creates the proxy server. Download and docs:http://www.kspro.org/ Paper: http://www.news.cs.nyu.edu/~jinyang/pub/kalei_iptps08.pdf -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast Secretary: Internet Society - New York Chapter http://isoc-ny.org --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann