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ICSI Gazette, Fall 2014
Taking the Long View
by Deborah Crawford, Director
I am delighted to have this opportunity to pen my first remarks as director, having joined ICSI just a handful of weeks ago. In a career that has spanned almost three decades, I’ve had the great fortune of working with really smart people on inspiring projects in computing.
Privacy
In June 2013, the Guardian published its first report based on documents provided by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Just more than a year later, privacy seems to be on everyone’s mind. In a survey conducted in January by Truste, a data management company that prioritizes consumer safety and privacy, 74 percent of users said they were more worried about online privacy than they had been a year earlier. Pew Research found that half of Americans were worried about their personal information on the Internet in 2013, up from a third in 2009. A quick Google search for “online privacy” calls up articles with ominous headlines such as “Online Privacy is Dead.” But what exactly is online privacy, and why is it important?
Massimo Maresca
Professor Massimo Maresca of the University of Genoa, an ICSI alum as well as the head of the Scientific Office of the Italian Consulate in San Francisco, is supervising a new project at ICSI related to end-user computing, big data, and the Internet of things. Professor Maresca first visited ICSI’s Realization Group, which developed massively parallel systems, as a postdoc in the early 1990s. He soon switched his attention to distributed networks, an area of research led at ICSI by Professor Domenico Ferrari in the Networking Group.
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Students and Visiting Scholars:
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| Roya Ensafi | Van Tung Pham |
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| Michele Stecca | Elisabeth Wehling |