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Alice & Eve is an initiative to celebrate the contributions of women in computing. We present inspiring women in computing, both to the general public, and to professionals.

 

Alice & Eve comprises a wide variety  of activities: 1-day symposium, a poster competition, a physical exhibition portraying 25 women in computer science. And the website you are currently visiting, featuring a digital exhibition.

 

The first edition of Alice & Eve  was held in January 2020, at the University of Twente. The second edition has taken place in November 2021 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 

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If you want to get an impression of what the physical exhibition from 2020 looked like, click here

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WHO ARE ALICE AND EVE?

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Alice and Eve are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in cryptographic systems and protocols. Alice and Bob are generally represented as characters exchanging a message or cryptographic key. Eve represents an "eavesdropper", who can listen to messages between Alice and Bob. You can read more here.

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