Re: PhD defense of Andrei Vlad Sambra on Data ownership and Interop. in Decentralized Social SemWeb

Thank you all, I'm looking forward to it!

Andrei


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:

> Indeed, Good luck, Andrei! Have fun.
>
> Tim
>
> On 2013-11 -06, at 23:54, Olivier Berger wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > FYI, and as he's too shy to make the announcement himself, let me tell
> > you that Andrei Vlad Sambra will be defending his PhD thesis on Tuesday
> > November 19th 2013, at Telecom SudParis (Évry, France), on the suject of
> > "Data Ownership and Interoperability for a Decentralized Social Semantic
> > Web".
> >
> > Let's wish him good luck for the final sprint ;-)
> >
> > Below's a copy of the announcement (removed the abstract in french).
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > --------------
> >
> > J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse de doctorat
> > intitulée: « La propriété des données et l'interopérabilité pour un Web
> > sémantique social décentralisé ».
> > Cette thèse a été préparée sous la direction du Professeur Maryline
> > Laurent au sein de l'équipe R3S du laboratoire UMR5157 SAMOVAR.  Elle se
> > tiendra le mardi 19 novembre 2013 à 10h en salle A003.
> >
> > Composition du jury :
> > Monsieur Josep Domingo Ferrer - Professeur HDR Universitat Rovira i
> > Virgili, Rapporteur
> > Monsieur Fabien Gandon - Chargé de recherche INRIA, Rapporteur
> > Monsieur Jean-Gabriel Ganascia - Professeur HDR LIP6 University Pierre
> > et Marie Curie, Examinateur
> > Mousieur Yves Roudier - Maitre de conférences HDR - Eurecom, Examinateur
> > Monsieur Olivier Berger - Ingénieur de recherche - Télécom SudParis,
> > Examinateur
> > Madame Maryline Laurent - Professeur HDR - Télécom SudParis, Directrice
> > de thèse
> >
> > Abstract:
> >
> > Ensuring personal data ownership and interoperability for decentralized
> > social Web applications is currently a debated topic, especially when
> > taking into consideration the aspects of privacy and access control.
> > Since the user's data are such an important asset of the current
> > business models for most social Websites, companies have no incentive to
> > share data among each other or to offer users real ownership of their
> > own data in terms of control and transparency of data usage. We have
> > concluded therefore that it is important to improve the social Web in
> > such a way that it allows for viable business models while still being
> > able to provide increased data ownership and data interoperability
> > compared to the current situation.
> >
> > To this regard, we have focused our research on three different topics:
> > identity, authentication and access control. First, we tackle the
> > subject of decentralized identity by proposing a new Web standard called
> > "Web Identity and Discovery" (WebID), which offers a simple and
> > universal identification mechanism that is distributed and openly
> > extensible. Next, we move to the topic of authentication where we
> > propose WebID-TLS, a decentralized authentication protocol that enables
> > secure, efficient and user friendly authentication on the Web by
> > allowing people to login using client certificates and without relying
> > on Certification Authorities. We also extend the WebID-TLS protocol,
> > offering delegated authentication and access delegation. Finally we
> > present our last contribution, the Social Access Control Service, which
> > serves to protect the privacy of Linked Data resources generated by
> > users (e.g. profile data, wall posts, conversations, etc.) by applying
> > two social metrics: the "social proximity distance" and "social
>  contexts".
> >
> > Keywords: Web, decentralized identity, decentralized authentication,
> > privacy, access control, WebID, WebID-TLS
> >
> > Cordialement,
> > Andrei Sambra
> > --
> > Olivier BERGER
> > http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id:
> 2048R/5819D7E8
> > Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
> > Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
> >
> >
> >
>
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