#  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.

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## 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



 

 

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