Years ago, when I was writing my Ph.D. thesis, I was notified that I would have to vacate my office, because the building would be remodeled soon. „Soon“ turned out to be enough time to finish my Ph.D., start a family, work in industry and return to my old office. This month I finally moved. […]
My prediction was wrong. A product I had seen on CeBIT last year – the Tutanota webmail application – is still in business while I had predicted it would not be. The product’s idea is to provide a web interface for email and to store the emails encrypted „in the cloud“. None of the issues […]
I will be speaking at a partner event for Norman Safeground AS in Oslo in April. The topic of my talk is going to be „Security in the cloud“.
5 meetings, 4 towns, 3 days, 2 countries, 1 purpose: find out how successful research schools operate to transfer their experience into a good start for COINS. I was on travel recently together with my colleague Einar Snekkenes and visited representatives for the DISC interuniversitary graduate school systems and control, the university-wide RUB Research School […]
It was a good day lately. The weather was nice, good conditions for cross-country skiing, sunshine, temperatures around zero degrees Celsius. I had been out in the woods with my family and was returning to my car when the day showed its ugly face. Packing the stuff in the trunk I noticed a sound: „pfffffft“. […]
I enjoy using the amadeus.net web site to find out about available flight connections. When I was looking for flights earlier this year, Amadeus got the dates wrong. I am sure that the date for the flight (February 19th, 2013) was correct, but the date they claimed I had chosen (January 10th, 2536) certainly was […]
Here is a selection of applications I got for the open Ph.D. position in „Process tracking for forensic readiness in operating systems“ (application deadline was yesterday). The most important aspect in finding a good candidate is to find a good fit for the candidate’s abilities and aspirations, the work that needs to be done, the […]
I have an open position for a Ph.D. student working on process tracking for forensic readiness in operating systems. There are clear instructions in the announcement how to apply. Nevertheless, I sometimes get emails that are not aimed at the announced position. Take a look at the picture. The candidate is „extremely motivated to apply“. So motivated […]
I was visiting a car dealer to find a used car to buy. The experience was new to me (I had not bought a car before), but it was quite familiar given what I had read about dealers of used cars. We did not have a good start. A car part was dangling that was […]
Earlier this year I spent significant time on writing an application to the Research Council of Norway for funding a national research school of computer and information security. Some weeks before Christmas, the Research Council announced that they would fund the school as one of ten new research schools in the period 2013-2020. The Research […]