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CS Colloq: Dr. Frank McSherry

Talk Title: Differential Privacy: Theory and Practice
Speaker: Dr. Frank McSherry, Microsoft Research (SVC)
Host: Prof. David KempeAbstract:
We present an introduction to the recent concept of Differential Privacy, a privacy criterion requiring that a computation not reveal the presence or absence of individual records in an input data set.
After developing the mathematical foundation, we proceed to describe the Privacy Integrated Queries platform, an analysis language and system providing differential privacy guarantees even for users without privacy experience. The platform requires some new mathematics, tasteful language restriction, and careful implementation, but enables a large set of new computations that would otherwise require ad-hoc expert analysis before execution against sensitive data.Bio:
Frank McSherry is a researcher at Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley Campus, where he studies questions related to data analysis and data privacy. His recent interests lie in bringing the theoretical achievements of differential privacy to non-experts, without requiring them to acquire new advanced degrees along the way. Frank received his PhD from the University of Washington, under Anna Karlin, doing research on spectral methods in data analysis.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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