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		<title>Tutorial Videos on and around Differential Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Roth and I organized a workshop on &#8220;Differential Privacy Across Computer Science&#8221; at DIMACS in the fall. Videos from the tutorials are now up (presumably they have been for a while, but I did not know it). http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/DifferentialPrivacy/Slides/slides.html The tutorial speakers covered connections between DP and a range of areas: Moritz Hardt: Differential private [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=532&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DIMACS Workshop on Differential Privacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Roth and I are running a 3 day interdisciplinary workshop on differential privacy at DIMACS (Rutgers), on October 24-26. This is immediately following FOCS, which is being held nearby, in downtown New Brunswick. The workshop will begin with a day of tutorials on differential privacy as understood in various communities (theory, databases, programming languages, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=299&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICITS 2012 &#8212; playing with the format</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am the program chair for this year&#8217;s ICITS, the International Conference on Information-Theoretic Security. (The acronym is admittedly a bit of a mouthful. I like &#8220;ickets&#8221; as the pronunciation. That way, papers at ICITS are &#8220;pickets&#8221;, talks there are &#8220;tickets&#8221;, you get the idea.) ICITS will be held in Montreal right before CRYPTO, August [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=300&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Postdocs in data privacy at Penn State</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been excessively delinquent in posting to this blog for the last little while (ok, two years). But a postdoc announcement is a terrible thing to hide from public view in the current economy. Postdoctoral positions in statistical, computational and learning-theoretic aspects of data privacy As part of a joint project between Penn State, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=296&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy in the NYT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times (front &#8220;page&#8221; on the web last night) does a good job of highlighting some of the intricacies of &#8220;privacy&#8221; in online social networks. The article links to a surprising number of technical research articles. There were also two quotes that stuck out. &#8216;“Technology has rendered the conventional definition [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=281&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IPAM Workshop Wrap-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week was the Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy, which I co-organized with Cynthia Dwork, Steve Fienberg and Sesa Slavkovic. As I explained in my initial post on the workshop, the goal was to tie together work on privacy in statistical databases with the theoretical foundations of learning and statistics. Slides for most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=258&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Sloan Fellows</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again this year, theorists and their friends were well represented among the Sloan Research Fellows. These are the names I recognize: Joel Tropp Jonathan Kelner Constantinos Daskalakis Amin Saberi Brent Waters Balázs Szegedy Congratulations to all!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=253&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative tools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing is missing in my collaborative online life, though, and that is a good white board. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=235&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A private event</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t exactly in stealth mode, but I heard about Data Privacy Day 2010 only after it happened. Born of an effort to promote awareness of data privacy issues by the non-profit The Privacy Projects, this year&#8217;s celebration (?) included events at a several universities. Most interesting to me was a roundtable discussion at UC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=236&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two interesting reads this morning on military security. First, Matt Blaze blogs about physical and procedural security measures at a decommissioned nuclear ICBM silo. Startling pictures and lots of food for thought. The cultural and game theoretic aspects of our current conflicts are pretty different from those of the cold war; I was surprised to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamdsmith.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6530012&#038;post=228&#038;subd=adamdsmith&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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