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Cynthia Dwork Wins National Medal of Science

January 14, 2025

Cynthia Dwork received the National Medal of Science on January 3, 2025. She was cited for “visionary contributions to the field of computer science and secure public-key cryptography” and how her “innovative research, analyses, and discoveries on...

Harvard Theory Undergrad Sílvia Casacuberta Puig wins CRA Researcher Award; International Rhodes Fellowship

January 10, 2023

Harvard TCS undergraduate Sílvia Casacuberta Puig is the proud recipient of two major honors this Winter! Sílvia took home a CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, as well as a prestigious International Rhodes Scholarship. Huge congratulations to...

Swiss Data Science & AI for Public Good Seminar Series

January 10, 2023

The Data Science Competence Center (DSCC) is holding a series of seminars for the Swiss public administration and its academic partners. The seminar series: Data Science and AI for Public Good focuses on topics related to data science and artificial...

Widespread Underestimation of Sensitivity in DP Libraries presented at PPML 2022

August 05, 2022

Earlier this year, Apple hosted the Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML). This virtual event brought Apple and members of the academic research communities together to discuss the state of the art in the field of privacy-preserving...

Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census: How Can We Make Data Both Private and Useful?

July 11, 2022

Harnessing the Known Unknowns: Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census Special Issue 2: Differential Privacy for the 2020 U.S. Census by Ruobin Gong, Erica L. Groshen, and Salil Vadhan Introduction This special issue, Differential Privacy for the 2020 U...

Contributors to the Development of Differential Privacy Receive 2021 Kanellakis Award

May 18, 2022

AWARDS & RECOGNITION Avrim Blum, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago; Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute; Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University; Frank McSherry, Materialize Inc.; Kobbi Nissim, Georgetown University; and Adam Davison Smith, Boston University...

Registration Open: OpenDP Community Meeting September 22-24

September 13, 2021

Join us September 22-24 for the OpenDP Community Meeting. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/opendp-meet-2021… Find out how you can use OpenDP software, contribute to OpenDP and join working groups that will shape OpenDP going forward.

SAVE THE DATE: OpenDP Community Meeting 2021

August 19, 2021

We are looking forward to the 2021 OpenDP Community Meeting. Mark your calendars, this year's community meeting will be held September 22-24 from 11 AM - 3 PM EST. Details of the event will be posted when they are finalized.

Alexandra Wood Presents At The Brussels Privacy Hub Tech Talk Series

June 28, 2021

Alexandra Wood gave a presentation and participated as a discussant as part of the Brussels Privacy Hub Tech Talk series, in conversation with Prof. Gianclaudio Malgieri (EDHEC Augmented Law Institute, VUB) and Nirdhar Khazanie (Google Product Manager) on...

Kobbi Nissim Delivers STOC 2021 Keynote Presentation “Legal Theorems: Bridging Computer Science and Privacy Law”

June 23, 2021

Kobbi Nissim delivered a keynote presentation “Legal Theorems: Bridging Computer Science and Privacy Law” in STOC 2021. Presentation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P64Kp5kAleQ

Kobbi Nissim Presents Privacy: From Database Reconstruction to Legal Theorems” in PODS 2021

June 11, 2021

Kobbi Nissim delivered a Gems of PODS presentation “Privacy: From Database Reconstruction to Legal Theorems” in PODS 2021. Presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VmU4t1jlo

The Boston Area Differential Privacy Seminar Series Kicked Off

February 08, 2021

The Boston-area DP seminar series kicked off last week. As a reminder, you can get updates about the seminar series by joining this google group and checking this calendar. Past Speaker, 2/5: Vikrant Singhal Title: Private Mean Estimation of Heavy-Tailed...