The Drones Club: Consumer UAVs, their (ab)uses, and some possible countermeasures
If you have a University or Bodleian Reader’s card, you can get to the Centre for Digital Scholarship through the Mackerras Reading Room on the first floor of the Weston Library, around the gallery. If you do not have access to the Weston Library you are more than welcome to attend the talk: please contact Pip Willcox before the event (pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or “drones”) have been in consumer hands and newspaper headlines for several years now. While their much-touted potential to dramatically change modern existence is slowly beginning to emerge, it sometimes seems like their most notable success thus far has been in crashing into everything in sight.

This talk will take a brief look at the devices currently available for the everyday consumer and what to expect in the near future. It will then explore some exciting legitimate uses as well as the manifold creative misuses people have devised. Finally it will discuss the potential countermeasures that have been proposed to detect UAVs, disable or commandeer them, and trace misuse back to operators.

Richard Baker is a member of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity, within the Software and Systems Security group. His DPhil work focuses on the opportunities that UAVs provide as an inexpensive mobile platform, as well as technologies to help protect privacy despite their widespread use. Prior to studying in Oxford he was a software developer for a number of years, in the UK and Switzerland. He holds an MEng degree in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
Date: 10 May 2016, 13:00
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Centre for Digital Scholarship
Speaker: Richard Baker (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Bodleian Libraries
Organiser: Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Host: Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Part of: Research Uncovered: public talks on digital scholarship
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2016/05/03/richard-baker/
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Pip Willcox