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A Selection of Applied Research Problems in Information Communication

<b>Speaker</b>: Bertrand Haas, Pitney Bowes<br>
<b>Time and Location</b>: Friday Feb 1 at 11am in LC102
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<b>Abstract</b>: Bertrand will present several concrete research problems related to            
the communication of information through parallel or hidden channels           
(watermarking and steganography) and to the securing of information            
communication for specific purposes (fingerprinting and                        
authentication).
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<b>Bio</b>:

Bertrand Haas is Principal Engineer in the Secure Systems research             
group of the Advanced Concepts and Technology division at Pitney               
Bowes.  He joined this group in 2001 and has been working, since               
then, on cryptography, coding theory, image processing, graphic                
security and has more recently been involved in developing solutions           
for mail voting applications.  Bertrand received his Ph.D. in                  
Mathematics from the University of Basel in Switzerland in 1998.  He           
spent a postdoctoral year at the Fields Institute and UofT in                  
Toronto, a year at the Mathematical Science Research Institute and             
UC in Berkeley and then taught two years at Michigan State                     
University before beginning his corporate career at Pitney Bowes.