Secure e-Payment: challenges and opportunities

Speaker:	Dr. Weidong Kou
		Chief Architect and Senior Manager
		IBM Software Group

Title:		"Secure e-Payment: challenges and opportunities"

Date:		Monday, 14 February 2005

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

In this talk, we will examine the recent development of secure e-payment,
its challenges and opportunities. Particularly, we will look into the
e-payment challenges in China. We will use a research project funded by
the National Science Foundation of China as an example to examine the
privacy and security issues in e-payment, and discuss how we can resolve
these issues. We will also introduce an e-payment project funded by Hong
Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) to further explore the
opportunities of e-payment.



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Biography:

Dr. Weidong Kou is Chief Architect and Senior Manager, IBM Software Group,
Pervasive Computing, GCG, and Adjunct Professor of the University of
Maryland, USA, and Xidian University, China. He was Dean of the School of
Computer Science and Technology at Xidian University, and Director of
Chinese State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks. From August
2000 to November 2003, he was Associate Director and Principal Researcher
of the E-Business Technology Institute at the University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Kou is Senior Member of IEEE and was elected as Member of New
YorkAcademy of Sciences in 1992. He was the recipient of 2004 Friendship
Award, the most prestigious award for a foreign citizen from Chinese
National Government.  Dr. Kou has authored/edited 7 books and published
over 70 papers on journals and conferences. He also authored 9 US/Canadian
issued/pending patents. He has also served as Associate Editor for
International Journal of Information Technology and Education, a member of
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and a
Guest Editor for special issues on e-commerce for International Journal of
Digital Libraries. He was the General Chair of 2004 IEEE International
Conference on E-commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business.