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Tutorial Videos on and around Differential Privacy

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Aaron Roth and I organized a workshop on “Differential Privacy Across Computer Science” 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 algorithms via learning theory
  • Gerome Miklau: Query optimization techniques from the DB community
  • Benjamin Pierce: Using PL techniques to automate and verify proofs of privacy
  • Aaron Roth: Game-theoretic perspectives on privacy
All four talks were excellent, and they are a great resource for people (interested in) getting into the field.
Those talks all assume at least passing familiarity with differential privacy. For a gentler introduction, my tutorial from CRYPTO 2012 is online. The first third or so of the talk is not on differential privacy at all, but rather surveys the attacks and privacy breaches that motivated approaches such as differential privacy.
Watching the video, I realize that my talk was very slow-paced, so you may prefer to just read the slides (or maybe watch the video at 2x ?):
Comments on any of the tutorials are welcome.

Written by adamdsmith

February 8, 2013 at 2:21 pm

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