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Spencer Kelly
- Technology Tourist, Presenter of the BBC's
- international technology programme Click
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After studying Computer Science at Cambridge University for three years, Spencer decided to throw it all away and present a breakfast radio show, which he hosted for 7 years. While there, he performed a 12,000 feet skydive, drove a tank, stunt-rode a motorcycle and broke a world record (not all in the same day).
He joined the BBC in 2003 as an interactive presenter, before becoming a reporter for Click. He became the main Click presenter at the end of 2005. During his time on the programme, he's reported from many locations, including remote villages in India, the Great Wall of China, Las Vegas and South Korea. Most recently, he has investigated the highly organised business of cybercrime in Russia, and demonstrated the power of botnets - thousands of compromised computers all controlled remotely by anonymous hackers somewhere else in the world.
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Professor Fred Piper
- Information Security Group
- Royal Holloway, University of London
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Fred Piper obtained a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics at Imperial College (University of London) in 1962 followed by a PhD in 1964. He began an academic career as an Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at Royal Holloway College (University of London) and after one year was promoted to Lecturer. He transferred to Westfield College (University of London) in 1969, was promoted to Reader in 1971 and to Professor in 1975. He is currently Director of the Royal Holloway Information Security Group that was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 1998. He has held a number of visiting positions at other universities, including Illinois (Chicago Campus), Florence, Perugia, New York State (Albany), Michigan State, Western Ontario, Natal and Beijing.
Fred has published over 100 research papers, 6 books (4 on cryptography), and is on the editorial boards of two international journals. He has also supervised over 50 PhD students and is one of the organisers of the MSc's in Information Security and Secure Electronic Commerce being offered at Royal Holloway. He has lectured world-wide on a wide range of topics in information security, both academically and commercially.
In 1985 he formed a company, Codes & Ciphers Ltd, which offers consultancy advice in all aspects of information security. He has acted as a consultant for a number of financial institutions and major industrial companies in the UK, Europe and USA. This consultancy has covered a wide range of subjects including design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, and work on a number of ATM and EFTPOS systems. In the last few years he has served on a number of committees offering security advice to the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.
Fred is a member of the Board of Trustees, Bletchley Park.
In 2002 he was awarded an IMA Gold Medal for "Services to Mathematics".
In 2002 he was also awarded the first honorary CISSP for a European. This was for 'leadership in Information Security'.
In 2003 Fred received an honorary CISM for 'globally recognised leadership' and 'contribution to the Information Security Profession'.
In 2005 he was elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame.
He was named Professional of the Year at the Communications in Business Awards 2005.
In 2008 he was elected to be a Fellow of (ISC)2.
In 2008 he was the first person to be elected to the InfoSecurity Europe Hall of Fame.
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