Computer Science

James Honaker and Salil Vadhan The risks to privacy when making human subjects data available for research and how to protect against these risks using the formal framework of differential privacy. Methods for attacking statistical data releases, the...

Instructor: Michael Bar-Sinai Course Description: Making data widely available to researchers is good policy. It enables replication and validation of scientific findings and maximizes return on research investment. However, data containing sensitive...

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...

Description: Algorithms to guarantee privacy and authenticity of data during communication and computation. Proofs of security based on precise definitions and assumptions. Topics may include one-way functions, private-key and public-key encryption...

Description: This course will focus on language-based information security: using programming language techniques and abstractions to specify, reason about, and enforce, information security. Most of the course will focus on information-flow control...

Description: What is privacy, and how is it affected by recent developments in computer technology? Course critically examines popular concepts of privacy and uses a rigorous analysis of technologies to understand the policy and ethical issues at play...

Description: This course is about the following question: How can we enable the analysis of datasets with sensitive information about individuals while protecting the privacy of those individuals? This question is motivated by the vast amounts of data...