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On 6.5.2009, I finished my habilitation. Details.

Since a few days, a new chaosradio express podcast is available. In nr. 116, Tim and I discuss various aspects of ad-hoc networks (albeit in German!).

You can download the podcast and contribute on the discussion page.

Googling the web, I just stumbled upon the fact that my dissertation thesis on security in mobile ad-hoc networks is cited in the TAUCIS report ("Technikfolgenabschätzung Ubiquitäres Computing und Informationelle Selbstbestimmung") of the BMBF. It is interesting seing own work popping up here and there.

The whole report can be found here (in German).

In other countries its happening regularly, now it also starts in Germany: as user of cryptography you are suspicious by default (German article):

http://www.lawblog.de/index.php/archives/2009/02/24/verschlusseln-macht-...

When updating my server, I finally made the switch to Drupal 6. Everything should look the same as before, but hopefully I will find the time to introduce some new features.

After browsing some documentation, I figured out how to use an iPhone / iPod touch as VPN client in our university network. This saves you a lot of time as you don't need to enter login information at the WLAN gateway.

Together with colleagues from Zurich and Bonn I am organizing the 5th Workshop on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (WMAN 2009) in conjunction with the 16th bi-annual Conference on Communication in Distributed Systems (KiVS) (German: ITG/GI - Fachtagung "Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS)")

You have until 24.10.08 to register a paper, submission deadline is on 31.10.08. See the CfP for details.

IEEE Vehi-Mobi 2009 - the IEEE Vehicular Networks & Applications Workshop is held in conjunction to ICC 2009 in Dresden. CfP is open until 15.10.2008, so you need to speed up with submissions.

If you are doing research in the field of Web technology, you should consider responding to the Call for Papers of the WebIST conference. Deadline is the 29. Oct. 2008.

Zur Zeit bin ich auf der Konferenz UCS 2007 in Tokyo, Akihabara. Unglaublich: hier gibt es 6-stöckige Kaufhäuser ausschließlich für Elektronikartikel, z.B. Yodobashi Akiba. Quasi ein Mega-Mediamarkt.