The very successful PRACTICE General Assembly, Advisory Board and Technical meeting occured from 16^th to18^th of September, 2015 in Tallinn / Estonia. The PRACTICE Advisory Board: Moti Yung (Google), Seny Kamara (Microsoft) and Christian Cachin (IBM Research Zurich).

We encourage you to apply for our summer school on topics related to Secure and Trustworthy Computing that is organized by the EU FP7 PRACTICE project in collaboration with the Polytechnic Institute Bucharest. It takes place in Bucharest, Romania from September 23^rd to 27^th, 2015.

This summer school aims to introduce the participants to a large spectrum of theoretical underpinnings and practical aspects associated to secure and trustworthy computing that are vital in the context of secure cloud computing. The lectures cover a wider range of topics from advanced cryptography to system security:  secure multi-party computation, searchable encryption, hardware security and new trends (e.g., Intel’s SGX), runtime attacks (e.g., return oriented programming), etc.

The primary audience are PhD students and PostDocs working on topics closely related to the focus of the school, but advanced Master students, academic researchers and industrial participants are also welcome. The application deadline is August 1^st, 2015.

Please find the invited speakers and detailed information on application/registration on the website of the summer school: http://summerschool.trust.cased.de/.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

The PRACTICE project announces proudly that the first foreground IP of PRACTICE has been granted a patent:

Title: Type-System for Mixed Protocol Secure Computation

Patent No.: US8839410

Inventor: Florian Kerschbaum

PRACTICE is attending the Cybersecurity and Privacy Innovation Forum 2015 in Brussels on 28-29th April. Visit us to get some interesting project information and the latest news. 

Last week, the 5th Bar-Ilan Winter School in Cryptography on Advances in Practical Multiparty Computation was held from 15th to 19th February at the Bar-Ilan University (BIU) and the Kfar Hamaccabiah conference center in Ramat-Gan.

When you would like to know more about the meeting, you can find details here.