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An International Environment for Pursuing
Academic Careers in
Information Security and Media Technology
China Visit, November 2007
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Outline

• GUC - facts, location, and profile
• IMT Faculty - overview, laboratory facilities
• Media Technology
• Research profile and staff
• Sample project
• Information Security
• Research profile and staff
• Sample project
• Industrial collaboration and job opportunities

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Gjøvik on the World Map
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Gjøvik

• Gjøvik is located 100 km north of Oslo
  International airport
• Modern town with industrial traditions
• Clean air and water
• Lakes, forests, and mountains in close proximity
• Ideal for sports, swimming, rock climbing,
  hiking, and outdoor activities

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Gjøvik University College

• Gjøvik, Hamar, and Lillehammer were the 1994
  winter Olympics cities
• The three colleges collaborate to create the
  Inland University of Norway
• GUC will be the center of technology and health
  care
• More than 70 international partners in Australia,
  Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Palestine,
  Russia, Spain, UK, USA, etc.

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Faculty for Computer Science and Media Technology

• Study programs
• 5 Bachelor programs
• 2 master programs
• 2 PhD programs under development
• Employees from 10 nations
• 50 refereed publications in 2006
• 10 externally funded projects
• 130 master degree graduates till date
• Laboratories
• Media Technology Lab
• Norwegian Color Lab
• NISlab

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Outline

• GUC - facts, location, and profile
• IMT - overview, laboratory facilities
• Media Technology
• Research profile and staff
• Sample project
• Information Security
• Research profile and staff
• Sample project
• Industrial collaboration and job opportunities

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Media Technology
Media technology encompasses the study of
the concepts, technologies, techniques, and
methods that enables inter-human
communication over distances in time and
space. (Nils Enlund, professor, KTH, Sweden)
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Media Technology People

• 2 Professors
• 3 Associate professors (1 adjunct)
• 4 Assistant professors
• 7 PhD students
• 20 MSc students
• 40 BSc students

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Media Technology Research Areas

• Electronic publishing
• Content personalization
• Service innovation methodologies
• Video processing
• Video summarization and classification
• Video surveillance
• Color imaging
• Multi-spectral Image Capture
• Spectral Color Reproduction
• Image difference
• ICC3D
• Movie color correction

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Sample Research Project

• Spectral image reproduction
• Collaboration with École Nationale Supérieure des
  Télécommunications, France
• One PhD student
• The goal is to reproduce images with a spectral
  match to an original scene, or a reference image,
  in order to eliminate the problems of the
  conventional metameric matches that can be
  achieved with four-color printing processes. A
  metameric match is only correct under a given
  viewing illuminant, while a spectral match is
  correct under any illuminant.

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Erasmus MundusCenter of Excellence in Teaching

• EU-funded collaboration
• Students stay at two or more universities during
  their studies
• Intended to be attractive for students outside of
  EU
• GUC is a partner in CIMET, Colors in Informatics
  and Media Technology
• The first CIMET students to start their studies
  next fall

http//ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/mundus/pr
ojects/index_en.html
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Outline

• GUC - facts, location, and profile
• IMT - overview, laboratory facilities
• Media Technology
• Research profile and staff
• Sample project
• Information Security
• Research profile and staff
• Sample project
• Industrial collaboration and job opportunities

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Information Security
Information security encompasses the study
of the concepts, techniques, technical
measures, and administrative measures used
to protect information assets from
deliberate or inadvertent unauthorized
acquisition, damage, disclosure, manipulation,
modification, loss, or use. (MCDANIEL, G.
IBM dictionary of computing. McGraw-Hill, Inc.,
New York, NY, USA, 1994.)?
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Norwegian Information Security Lab

• 7 Professors (2 adjunct)
• 5 Associate professors (2 adjunct)
• 2 Assistant professors (1 adjunct)
• 12 Researchers (Post.docs and PhDs)
• 50 MSc students
• 50 BSc students

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NISlab Research

• Part of the Information Security Valley
• Member of the Bluelight network
• Research Areas
• Information security management
• System security
• Cryptology
• Network security
• Privacy
• Attacks and forensics
• Information warfare and critical infrastructure
  protection
• Content protection

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Sample NISlab Research Project

• Identity management
• EU Integrated Project 2008-2011
• Two Post.Doc researchers and one PhD student
• Identity management combining fingerprint and
  cryptography. Privacy by design, capabilities to
  revoke an identity, multiple identities,
  including pseudo identities and and robustness
  against attacks

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NISlab Outstanding Research

• Professor Stephen Wolthusen selected as
  Editor-in-chief of Computers Security
• Professor Chik How Tan appearing on Top 25
  Hottest articles in Information Processing
  Letters
• Several best paper award nominations and articles
  accepted at conferences with acceptance rates lt
  20

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Career Opportunities

• Scholarships
• Master thesis in collaboration with companies
• Job opportunities after graduating
• Consulting
• Systems development
• Systems operation and management
• Teaching
• Research