Cynthia Dwork of Microsoft Research will give a talk entitled "Privacy in the Land of Plenty" Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:00 p.m. Maxwell Dworkin G125 Light refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Maxwell Dworkin ground floor lobby ------------------------------------------------------------ "Privacy in the Land of Plenty" Abstract: Privacy-preserving data analysis has a large literature that spans several disciplines. Many early attempts have proved problematic either in practice or on paper. A new approach, "differential privacy" -- a notion tailored to situations in which data are plentiful -- has provided a theoretically sound and powerful framework, and given rise to an explosion of research. We will review the definition of differential privacy, describe some algorithmic contributions, and conclude with a surprising application. Bio: Cynthia Dwork, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, is renowned for placing privacy-preserving data analysis on a mathematically rigorous foundation. A cornerstone of this work is differential privacy, a strong privacy guarantee frequently permitting highly accurate data analysis. Dr. Dwork has also made seminal contributions in cryptography and distributed computing, and is a recipient of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, recognizing some of her earliest work establishing the pillars on which every fault-tolerant system has been built for decades. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Host: Salil Vadhan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meg Hastings | Area Director Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 133 Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 P: 617-496-7358<tel:617-496-7358> _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events