Rene Mayrhofer's virtual home

(Most of) my presentations so far

On this page you can find my presentations of the last few years. Some of them are linked to conference papers, others were mostly invited presentations on some topics. I hereby grant permission to use these slides for any non-commercial purpose, especially including for education, as long as either the whole slide set with its front page is retained or specific reference to their origin is given. If you have any questions about using parts of the material presented here, please do not hesitate to email me and we will definitely find a solution.
  • 23.4.2008 19:30-21:00: Lecture at CV-MKV-Zirkel Vöcklabruck, Vöcklabruck, Austria
    Der aktuelle Überwachungswahn und seine Folgen: slides
  • 21.4.2008 12:00-13:00: Lecture at Third Exhibition for Palestinian Youth Innovations & Inventions 2008, Palestine, via video conference
    Security for Spontaneous Interaction: Problems and Examples: slides
  • 19.4.2008 11:00-11:45: Presentation at Grazer Linuxtage 2008, Graz, Austria
    Hochverfügbarkeit für KMUs: Shared-Nothing Clustering für virtuelle Hosts: slides
  • 19.4.2008 9:30-10:00: Key note at Grazer Linuxtage 2008, Graz, Austria
    Sieben Anti-Thesen erfolgreicher Open-Source Projekte: slides
  • 18.9.2007 12:00: Presentation at Ubicomp 2007 main papers track, Innsbruck, Austria
    Security by Spatial Reference: Using Relative Positioning to Authenticate Devices for Spontaneous Interaction: paper, slides
  • 17.9.2007 15:30-16:30 and 17:30-20:00: Presentation at Ubicomp 2007 1-Minute Madness and poster sessions, Innsbruck, Austria
    Shake well before use: two implementations for implicit context authentication: paper, slides, poster
  • 16.9.2006 9:00-17:10: Organization and moderation of IWSSI 2007: slides
  • 3.8.2007 11:00: Lecture at BaCaTec Summer School on Pervasive Healthcare Systems, Kloster Seeon, Chiemsee, Germany
    Pervasive Computing Security: slides
  • 2.7.2007 9:00: Presentation at ESAS 2007, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    The Candidate Key Protocol for Generating Secret Shared Keys From Similar Sensor Data Streams: paper, slides
  • 15.5.2007 9:25: Presentation at Pervasive 2007, Toronto, Canada
    Shake well before use: Authentication based on Accelerometer Data: paper, slides, recently also featured in New Scientist
  • 12.4.2007 9:30: Presentation at the WAIS 2007 workshop of ARES 2007, Vienna, Austria
    A Human-Verifiable Authentication Protocol Using Visible Laser Light: paper, slides
  • 30.3.2007 11:00: Presentation at the SSN 2007 workshop of IPDPS 2007, Long Beach, California, USA
    On the Security of Ultrasound as Out-of-band Channel: paper, slides
  • 19.3.2007 16:00: Presentation at the PerSec 2007 workshop of PerCom 2007, White Plains, New York, USA
    Towards an Open Source Toolkit for Ubiquitous Device Authentication: paper, slides
  • 14.2.2007 10:30: Presentation at the Heuristic Problem Solving workshop at EuroCAST 2007, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
    Extending the Growing Neural Gas Classifier for Context Recognition: paper, slides
  • 6.12.2006 13:00: Presentation at the TwUC 2006 workshop of iiWAS/MoMM 2006, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
    A Context Authentication Proxy for IPSec using Spatial Reference: paper, slides
  • 10.2.2006 14:15-15:00: Talk about firewall techniques at InternetTage, Technologiezentrum Attnang-Puchheim, Austria
    Möglichkeiten und Schwachpunkte von Firewalls - Live-Hackingdemo (in German): slides
  • 31.1./2.2.2006: Two invited guest lectures at the Computing Department of the Helsinki University, Finland, organized by Patrik Floreen:
    31.1.2006 14:15: Context prediction based on learning user habits: A next step towards "smart" systems: abstract, slides
    2.2.2006 12:15: Context authentication: making secure communication more user-friendly: abstract, slides
  • 29.11.2005 11:55: Speech at my promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae (in German): speech
  • 1.6.2005 9:00: Invited guest seminar at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, organized by Bernt Schiele:
    Kontextvorhersage: Ein weiterer Schritt in Richtung "intelligenter" Systeme: abstract, slides
  • 25.5.2005 12:15-13:00: Invited talk at Linuxwochen 2005, Vienna, Austria
    Gibraltar Firewall (in German): slides
  • 14.5.2005 13:00-14:00: Invited talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2005, Graz, Austria
    Erweiterte Firewall-Techniken (in German): slides
  • 11.5.2005 11:00: Presentation at the ECHISE2005 workshop of PERVASIVE 2005, Munich, Germany
    Context Prediction based on Context Histories: Expected Benefits, Issues and Current State-of-the-Art: paper, slides
  • 2.5.2005: Presentation at the Dissertation award 2005 of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, Mainz, Germany
    Eine Architektur zur Kontextvorhersage (in German): paper, slides
  • 23.4.2005 9:00: Invited keynote at Symposium Internet-Recht, Linz, Austria
    Technische Hintergründe für das rechtliche Handeln im Internet (in German) : extended abstract, paper, slides
  • 13.4.2005 17:00-18:00: Invited talk and workshop at Linuxwochen 2005 at Ars Electronica Center Linz, Linz, Austria
    Gibraltar Firewall (in German): slides
  • 22.2.2005 12:15-13:30: Invited talk and workshop at Linuxday 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria
    Gibraltar Firewall (in German): slides
  • 18.11.2004 11:00: Rigorosum (final viva voce of PhD study), Linz, Austria
    An Architecture for Context Prediction: thesis, slides
  • 22.10.2004 14:00-16:00: Invited talk at the OS04, Graz, Austria
    Gibraltar Firewall (in German): slides
  • 8.5.2004 14:00-16:00: Invited talk at the Grazer Linuxtage 2004, Graz, Austria
    Gibraltar Firewall (in German): slides
  • 20.4.2004: Presentations at the Workshop on Benchmarks and a database for context recognition of PERVASIVE 2004, Vienna Austria
    A Context Prediction Code and Data Base: paper, slides
    A Notebook Sensory Data Set for Context Recognition: paper, slides
  • 18.4.2004 11:00: Presentation at the Doctoral colloquium of PERVASIVE 2004, Linz, Austria
    An Architecture for Context Prediction: paper, slides
  • 29.10.2003: Presentation at MWCN2003, Singapore
    Feature Extraction in Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks: paper, slides
  • 15.9.2003: Presentation at MOMM2003, Jakarta, Indonesia
    Recognizing and Predicting Context by Learning from User Behavior: paper, slides
  • 29.6.2003: Presentation at SECCO2003, Eindhoven, Holland
    Securing Passive Objects in Mobile Ad-Hoc Peer-to-Peer Networks: paper, slides
  • 10.4.2003: Training course for network security and firewalls at technology center Attnang-Puchheim, Austria (in German): slides
  • 9.9.2002 11:00: Final viva voce for my diploma thesis, Linz, Austria
    A New Approach to the Fast Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks: thesis, slides
  • 5.4.2002 14:00-14:30: Presentation at EMCSR2002 in Symposium K: Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems, Vienna, Austria
    DEVS Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks: paper, slides
  • 2.10.1999: Short presentation about a Linux-based IP router and ISDN gateway with accounting data in an SQL database, at PC Club Steyr, Steyr, Austria (in German): handout, slides