CS 227r: Topics In Cryptography and Privacy
Semester:
Fall
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Year offered:
2014
Co-Instructors: Kobbi Nissim & Or Sheffet
Meets: Tuesday/Thursday 11:30AM - 1:00PM in MD 119
Course Description: This course will cover topics in cryptography and data privacy drawn from the theoretical computer science research literature with particular focus on differential privacy -- a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving analysis of datasets, which enables aggregate computations while preventing the leakage of individual-level information.
Class Materials:
Reading: Probability Review
Reading: The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy
Dwork, C. and Roth, A. 2013. The algorithmic foundations of differential privacy.
Reading: The Multiplicative Weights Update Method: A Meta-Algorithm and Applications
Sanjeev Arora, Elad Hazan, and Satyen Kale. The multiplicative weights update method: a meta algorithm and applications. Theory of Computing, Volume 8(6), pp. 121-164, 2012