Goodbye, 2023, and Hello To 2024: From Virtual to Physical

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Well, 2023 has been a strange year. Basically, it was the year that things got back to normal after years of online conferences. Overall, Twitter can give you a basic timeline of a year, so here are a few of my academic highlights. We kicked off Jan 2023 with a Innovation Symposium:

https://twitter.com/billatnapier/status/1613501318362005506

And then by the end of the month, we were off to the Scottish Parliament to showcase the impact that universities have in Scotland:

https://twitter.com/billatnapier/status/1620543402189398017

Over the year, we have had a number of guest talks for students, and in Feb 2023, it was the mighty Jean-Philippe Aumasson (the co-creator of the BLAKE hashing method):

https://twitter.com/billatnapier/status/1624382688370085888

Then it was the co-inventor of the ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptograpy (ECC) method:

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.