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Baba WAME is a professor in cyberjournalism and ICT at the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC) from the Yaoundé 2 University (Cameroon). Baba has a journalist background and worked at the Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) before starting to write, mostly for Jeune Afrique Economie, Divas, Brune as well as sport newspapers.

He wrote a PhD thesis in Information and Communication Sciences «Internet in Cameroon : uses and users, an essay on the adoption of communication and information technologies in a third world country» that he defended in December 12th 2005 at the University of Paris 2. The professor WAME observed the use of the Internet and showed the appropriation of web tools by Cameroonian women looking for a husband online. Baba Wame reveals us the gap beetwen occidental and cameroonian’s uses of the web, economic consequences in Cameroon and consequences in the search of “the white husband” on Internet.

Dr. Melanie Rieback is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Melanie’s research concerns the security and privacy of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and she leads multidisciplinary research teams on RFID security (RFID Malware) and RFID privacy management (RFID Guardian) projects. Her research has attracted worldwide media attention, appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, UPI, Computerworld, CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and many other print, broadcast, and online news outlets. Melanie’s research has received several awards (Best Paper: IEEE PerCom ‘06, Best Paper: USENIX Lisa ‘06, NWO I/O Prize, VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award finalist), and Melanie has also served as an invited expert for RFID security discussions with both the American and Dutch governments. In a past life, Melanie also worked on the Human Genome Project at the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research.

On february 27, in the “New frontiers” lecture Melanie Rieback will discuss the evolution of security with regards to RFIDs.

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