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AMS GGD #12 • Melanie Rieback • All Computers, Great and Small: An Odyssey, from Microchips to the Cloud

21 August 2014

Date: Thursday, 23 February, 2012
Time: 18:30-22:30
Location: KPMG (Laan van Langerhuize 1, Amstelveen)
Ticket: You pay 5 euros which you will get back if you turn up. So it is free! (including dinner and drinks).
Shuttle bus: there will be a shuttle bus to the venue.
Reserving a ticket is possible until: Saturday, 18 February

Speaker Bio

Dr. Melanie Rieback is in charge of Citrix Vancouver, leading the engineering and technology strategy for XenClient Synchronizer. Before moving to Citrix, Melanie was a faculty member at the Free University of Amsterdam (in the group of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum), where her RFID security/privacy research 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 has received many awards for her work (Best Paper: IEEE PerCom, Best Paper: USENIX Lisa, NWO I/O Prize, VU Mediakomeet, ISOC Award finalist, Viva 400, ‘Women in ICT’ finalist: ICT Professional of the Year 2010), and has served as an invited technology expert for 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, where she contributed to the 2001 ‘Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome’ paper in Nature.

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