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SoC Professor Lends Expertise to Microsoft Academic Advisory Board


 
S oC Professor Ivan Png has been named one of 17 leading academic and corporate professionals on Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board. He is the only member from Singapore, and one of two from Asia.
 



In a news release dated 26 February 2008, Microsoft Corp. described the board as part of its continuing work with leading security and privacy researchers from around the world, predominantly from academia.

The purpose of the effort, it said, is to critically relate, analyze and critique security and privacy policies and technologies within Microsoft products and services in a comprehensive, collaborative fashion.

Listing the 17 members of the board, the software giant describes them as leading academic and corporate professionals specializing in the fields of security, privacy policy and technology.

It highlighted that the members are noted for their significant track records of achievement in their respective fields of specialisation.

Prof Png’s research focuses on the economics of intellectual property, information privacy, and pricing.
 
He is concurrently Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor in the Department of Information Systems within NUS School of Computing, Professor of Business Policy in NUS Business School, and Professor of Economics in NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
 
   
   
 
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