December 2013

"Fingerprinting Codes and the Price of Approximate Differential Privacy" (Jon Ullman, CRCS Postdoc) [Video Recording Available]

The Center for Computational Intractability (Princeton University)
Theory Lunch: Jon Ullman – October 11, 2013

Title: Fingerprinting Codes and the Price of Approximate Differential Privacy
Speaker: Jon Ullman, Harvard University

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Dec 18: "(Nearly) Optimal Differentially Private Singular Subspace Computation" (Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Stanford University and Microsoft Research)

Title: (Nearly) Optimal Differentially Private Singular Subspace Computation
Speaker: Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, Stanford University and Microsoft Research
Time: Wednesday, December 18, 10am – 11:30am
Place: MCS137, 111 Cummington St, Boston, MA

Abstract: In this work we study the problem of releasing the principal rank-k right...

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Sharon Kelleher

During the fall I lived at home in Belmont, MA and volunteered with Horizons for Homeless Children, took cake decorating classes, took a class on "Law and Ethics" at the Harvard Extension School, tutored/nanny-ed, and visited friends at their colleges.  In the spring I travelled to Bolivia and Peru for 13 weeks with "Where There Be Dragons".  My favorite memory was definitely living with homestay families in the Andes of Bolivia as well as visiting Machu Picchu.  I took a year off after being accepted deferred at Harvard and it turned out to be the best "blessing in disguise...

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Dec 9: "Biometrics In Beta – India's Identity Experiment" (Malavika Jayaram, Berkman Fellow)

Technology in Government (TIG) and Topics in Privacy (TIP)

12/9/2013 refreshments served at 2:30p, discussion 3 to 4pm in room K354, at 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Title: Biometrics In Beta – India's Identity Experiment

Discussant: Malavika Jayaram, Berkman Fellow

India's identity juggernaut - the...

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Dec 5: Project Fair for "The Politics of Personal Data" and "Data Science to Save the World" courses

Thursday 12/5, 10:00am-12:00pm in the cafeteria area, CGIS Knafel 1st floor

If your schedule permits, come see the course projects of the students in Gov 1430, The Politics of Personal Data, and Gov 2430, Data Science to Save the World. The student projects are individual works crafted by the students at...

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Dec 4: "System and Conscience: NSA Bulk Surveillance and the Problem of Freedom" (Prof. Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School & Berkman Center for Internet & Society)

CRCS Lunch Seminar

Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119

Speaker: Prof. Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Harvard Law School; Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Title: ...

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Dec 2: "Privacy, Personhood, Product, Profit" (Deborah Hurley, EPIC)

Technology in Government (TIG)  and Topics in Privacy (TIP)
12/2/2013 refreshments served at 2:30p, discussion 3 to 4pm in room K354, at 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Title: Privacy, Personhood, Product, Profit
Discussant: Deborah Hurley

Privacy is a human right, with firm grounding in human rights conventions...

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