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CS STUDENT Colloquium: Melissa Roemmle
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Melissa Roemmle, USC
Talk Title: CS STUDENT Colloquium: Melissa Roemmle
Series: Student Seminar Series
Abstract: We developed a web game called Triangle Charades in which players create and interpret animations of human behaviors using simple shapes. I will explain how we use this game as a data collection approach for the machine learning task of automatically recognizing human actions in animations.
Host: Jacob Beal
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
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CS Colloquium: Vassilis Zikas (UCLA) - Cryptography & Secure Computation: Theory and Applications
Thu, Feb 20, 2014 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Vassilis Zikas, UCLA
Talk Title: Cryptography & Secure Computation: Theory and Applications
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: As more complex security challenges emerge, cryptography is called to provide provably secure solutions for a wide range of applications. Bridging the gap between theory and applications is perhaps the biggest challenge of contemporary cryptography. In this talk I discuss how combining ideas from game theory and cryptography provides the basis for the design of highly efficient, more resilient, and simpler provably secure protocols. I demonstrate this for the problem of secure computation, which has numerous applications, e.g., privacy preserving data mining and secure cloud computing. I further discuss recent developments on concrete efficiency of secure multi-party computation protocols which indicate that we can realistically expect large scale deployments in the next few years.
Biography: Dr. Vassilis Zikas is a researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include cryptography, information security, and game theory. Prior to his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland. He received his PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.
Host: Shanghua Teng
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
