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Professor Michael Ian Shamos, lawyer, computer scientist, and an electronic commerce expert, will review the principal methods of electronic voting, their advantages and disadvantages, including such phenomena as tampering, vote-buying, hacking and other methods used to influence the outcome of elections, and talk about Project SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment) a comprehensive Internet voting system developed by the US Department of Defense. It is designed to let Americans who are overseas cast ballots in the coming presidential election over the Internet. On 5 February, the US Department of Defense backed off plans for this voting system. The Pentagon will scrap the Project SERVE until the current system can guarantee the security of the voting process.
Details of the lecture as follows:
Date & time: Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, University Drive, the University of Hong Kong.
For free registration: http://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/seminar/upcoming.asp
For media enquiries, please contact Miss Polo Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at 2859 2600.
Electronic Commerce Expert to Deliver Public Lecture in HKU
09 Feb 2004
Professor Michael Ian Shamos is to deliver a public lecture entitled Electronic Voting: The Technology of Democracy at 10:30am on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 at Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, University Drive, the University of Hong Kong. This public lecture is co-hosted by HKU's Faculty of Law and the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the Faculty of Engineering.
Professor Michael Ian Shamos, lawyer, computer scientist, and an electronic commerce expert, will review the principal methods of electronic voting, their advantages and disadvantages, including such phenomena as tampering, vote-buying, hacking and other methods used to influence the outcome of elections, and talk about Project SERVE (Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment) a comprehensive Internet voting system developed by the US Department of Defense. It is designed to let Americans who are overseas cast ballots in the coming presidential election over the Internet. On 5 February, the US Department of Defense backed off plans for this voting system. The Pentagon will scrap the Project SERVE until the current system can guarantee the security of the voting process.
Details of the lecture as follows:
Date & time: Wednesday, 11 February 2004, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, University Drive, the University of Hong Kong.
For free registration: http://www.ecom-icom.hku.hk/seminar/upcoming.asp
For media enquiries, please contact Miss Polo Leung of HKU's External Relations Office at 2859 2600.
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