News Stories
Here are the latest news stories from Computing:
Alan Woodward commented for SC Magazine on privay and data protection
28 January 2013
Alan Woodward, a cyber security expert and a visiting professor of the Department, commented for the SC Magazine on how small business handles sensitive data of customers and how the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) does its work in raising the awareness of small business on regulations of the Data Protection Act. He feels most small businesses have problems understanding the importance of data protection and lack awareness on what to do to protect their customers' private data. To see the full story, click here.
Surrey Computing Researchers Won Best Paper Award at IIEEJ IEVC2012
22 January 2013
Dr Ainuddin Wahid Abdul Wahab, a former PhD student at Surrey Computing, Prof Anthony TS Ho and Dr Shujun Li of the Department won one of the three Best Paper Awards at IIEEJ IEVC2012 (3rd Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop) held in Kuching, Malaysia from 21 to 24 November 2012. The three best papers were selected from 95 papers presented at the workshop. The title of the paper is "Inter-Camera Model Image Source Identification with Conditional Probability Features" and the reported work is part of Ainuddin's PhD work supervised by Prof Anthony TS Ho. Ainuddin graduated from Surrey Computing in October 2012 and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer System and Technology, University of Malaya.
Surrey set to Innovate in the Cloud with Jaguar Land Rover
17 January 2013
The Department is set to receive funding from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board for an 18 month Innovating in the Cloud project. The project, a collaboration between lead partner Jaguar Land Rover, Wales-based SME GeoLang Ltd, and Surrey, intends to develop IP Protecting Cloud Services in Supply Chains (IPCRESS). The project will be led at Surrey by Dr Lee Gillam.
