Talks
People evidently like to hear me blab. This is a selection of recent talks I’ve given, or will be giving, in reverse chronological order.
Please note: I am not available for speaking engagements until further notice.
2009
invited Harvard Computer Society Speaker Series ↩
March 5, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2008
keynote DeepSec IDSC Europe ↩
November 14, Vienna, Austria
invited UOC UNESCO Chair in E-Learning Fifth International Seminar ↩
November 12, Barcelona, Spain
keynote T2 Information Security Conference ↩
October 16-17, Helsinki, Finland. Voted best speaker.
» The bitter tale of desktop security: our 35-year war.
keynote 20th Annual FIRST Conference ↩
June 22-27, Vancouver, Canada
» The dark future of desktop security, and how to stop it
invited Boston Lisp meeting
May 27th, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
» On the uncomfortable relationship between programming languages and security
keynote Web.Start ↩
May 8-9, Zagreb, Croatia
invited ITA software technical talk series
April 9, Cambridge, MA, USA
invited TRUST seminar series ↩
March 20, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
keynote PyCon, the Python community conference ↩
March 14-16, Chicago, IL, USA
invited Lockheed Martin Information Technology Trends Conference (ITTC)
February 19, Orlando, FL, USA, via videolink
» One (secure) Laptop per Child and related tales of innovation
2007
keynote CARNet users conference ↩
November 19-21, Rijeka, Croatia, via videolink
keynote GOVCERT.NL symposium ↩
October 18-19, Noordwijk aan Zee, Netherlands
keynote SciPy, the scientific Python conference ↩
August 16-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
» OLPC, Science, Awesome
paper ACM Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) ↩
July 18-20, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
» The One Laptop per Child security model (Paper)
keynote Mass. Tech. Leadership Council Open Source Summit ↩
June 19, Waltham, MA, USA
» The One Laptop per Child initiative (Video)
keynote AusCERT Asia Pacific Security Conference ↩
May 20-25, Gold Coast, Australia
» Everything you know about desktop security is wrong or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Virtual Machine (Slides, video interview)
invited Google technical talk series
April 12, Google, Mountain View, CA, USA
» The technology behind One Laptop per Child (Video)
keynote ShmooCon security conference ↩
March 23-25, Washington DC, USA
invited MIT MAS.964
March 20, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
invited Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society ↩
March 7, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Privacy and Security Seminar series
» A security model for One Laptop per Child
keynote PyCon, the Python community conference ↩
February 23-25, Dallas, TX, USA. Voted favorite presentation.
» The power of dangerous ideas: Python and One Laptop per Child
invited RSA Conference ↩
February 5-9, San Francisco, CA, USA
» How do you secure 100 million laptops?
invited HLS Cyberlaw: Internet points of control
January 19, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA
2006 and older
invited World Affairs Seminar
February 2006, Cranbrook Educational Community, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
» Steam, cannons, and digital freedom
invited FER Wireless Jam
December 2005, EECS Faculty, University of Zagreb, Croatia
» Design and architecture of the Roofnet wireless mesh network
teaching S3 Summer School of Science
July 2005, Višnjan astronomical observatory, Višnjan, Croatia
→ Taught a 10-day, highly compressed version of a Harvard University graduate course in modern distributed systems and wireless sensor networks to a class of advanced high school students. Voted best lecturer.
» Building a wireless sensor network
invited Kult.ivator debate series
May 2005, Varaždin, Croatia
→ Debated the merits of free and open source software with a Microsoft Director for Europe, Middle East and Asia.
» Open Source: the end of the software industry as we know it today?
