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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº'sÌý Professor Ingemar Cox and Professor Yvo Desmedt gave their inaugural lectures at the university on 21 March 2006.

Professor Cox, BT Professor of Communication gave a lecture entitled: 'Understanding and Facilitating Transactions on the Web' and Professor Desmedt, BT Chair of Information Security, spoke on 'Shutting Down the Internet: Can We Prevent It?'

Professor Cox, who is Director of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Adastral Park Campus, conducts research into information security and information retrieval and is Chair of Telecommunications in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Electronic & Electrical Engineering and ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Computer Science. Professor Desmedt of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Computer Science conducts research into information security and in particular cryptography, network security, critical infrastructures and computer security.

The chairs are both based at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Adastral Park postgraduate research campus in Suffolk and were funded by BT as part of its £2.5 million support in setting up the campus. Adastral Park primarily works in the broad areas of digital multimedia; computer vision; and networking. Current areas of joint research between ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and BT include virtual reality systems, network performance and architecture, image processing and retrieval and information security.

The lectures were chaired by ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's President and Provost, Professor Malcolm Grant and introduced by Professor Anthony Finkelstein, Head of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Computer Science.

To find out more about Adastral Park, use the link at the bottom of this article.

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