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

It went great, though I don't feel any different now than I did before. :)

I am currently participating in a workshop called "Weave the Web We Want"
at Mozilla Paris: https://github.com/stample/wiki/wiki/Weave-the-web-we-want.
Lots of interesting discussions so far, with more to come (especially on
alternative payments).

Andrei


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 11 November 2013 10:41, Andrei Sambra <andrei.sambra@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thank you all, I'm looking forward to it!
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> How did it go? :)
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>> Andrei
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>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
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>>> Indeed, Good luck, Andrei! Have fun.
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>>> Tim
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>>> On 2013-11 -06, at 23:54, Olivier Berger wrote:
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>>> > 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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