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Outreach Roadshow

March 27-28, 2003
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Collecting sensitive data from disparate data sources is at the center of bio-terrorism and counter-terrorism surveillance efforts in the United States. It is believed that public safety will be better achieved by being able to detect strategic information in data people leave behind in their daily lives. Such detection requires the use of unprecedentedamounts of personal data from many diverse sources, such as grocery stores, schools, hospitals, animal clinics, and more. The issues concerning individual privacy and organizational confidentiality are paramount. However, it may be possible to build on existing work in encryption, multi-party computation and cryptography in general, to provide practical solutions that enable data sharing with scientific guarantees of anonymity and confidentiality. Furthermore, such solutions will likely be applicable in many areas beyond bio-terrorism surveillance.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers in Epidemiology, Data Mining, Cryptography and Privacy around the subject of collecting data for bio-terrorism surveillance with scientific guarantees of privacy, anonymity and confidentiality. The workshop will begin with definitions of problems inherent in distributed data collection and anomaly detection, and explore techniques for solving them. There will be no published proceedings, but we plan to have a web site for the workshop with slides, pointers to relevant papers, and so forth.

Sponsors: The NSF ALADDIN Center and the Data Privacy Laboratory
Organizers: Guy Blelloch, Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, and Latanya Sweeney

Advance Registration Is Required by Monday, March 24th
Anyone planning to attend who has not yet registered (including CMU faculty and students) should register online as soon as possible.
Online Registration Form
All sessions will be held in 3305 Newell Simon Hall.
Directions and a map of the Carnegie Mellon campus
Ground transportation

SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY March 27
8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Introductions

9:30 Latanya Sweeney (CMU)
Workshop Introduction (pdf)

10:00 Ted Senator (DARPA)

10:30 Doug Dyer (DARPA)

11:00 Break

11:30 Andrew Moore (CMU)

12:00 Joe Kilian (NEC)
Secure computation (A Survey) (abstract) (ppt) (html) (pdf)

12:30 Lunch

2:00 Ran Canetti (IBM)
Jointly Restraining Big Brother: Using Cryptography to Reconcile Privacy with Data Aggregation (abstract) (ppt) (html) (pdf)

2:30 Kobbi Nissim (DIMACS)
Revealing information while preserving privacy (abstract) (ppt) (html) (pdf)

3:00 Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft)
A Cryptography-Flavored Approach to Privacy in Public Databases (abstract) (pdf)

3:15 Break

3:40 Bartosz Przydatek
Approaches to distributed privacy protecting data mining (pdf)

4:00 Ryan Williams
Optimal k-Anonymity using Generalization and Suppression is NP-Hard (abstract) (pdf)

4:20 Bradley Malin
Identifying people from the trails of data they leave behind (abstract)

4:40 Samuel Edoho-Eket, Carnegie Mellon
Answering "How Many?" Over a Distributed, Privacy-preserving Surveillance Network

5:00 Luis Von-Ahn and Nick Hopper, Carnegie Mellon: k-Anonymous Message Transmission: The Crimesolvers Website (ppt) (html) (pdf)

6:30 Dinner at Manuel and Lenore Blum's House. 1019 Devonshire Rd (between 5th and Forbes). 412 687-8730
See: Map to the Blums' house

March 28
8:30 Breakfast

9:00 Rafail Ostrovsky (Telcordia Technologies)
Data-mining with Privacy

9:30 Benny Pinkas (HP)
Privacy preserving learning of decision trees (abstract) (ppt) (pdf)

10:00 Johannes Gehrke (Cornell)
On Privacy Breaches in Privacy-Preserving Data Mining (abstract) (pdf)

10:30 Break

11:00 Rebecca Wright (Stevens Institute)
Privacy-protecting statistic computation: theory and practice (abstract) (ppt) (pdf)

11:30 Steve Fienberg (CMU)
Preserving Confidentiality AND Providing Adequate Data for Statistical Modeling: The Role of Partial and Perturbed Data (abstract) (ppt) (html) (pdf)

12:00 Michael Shamos (CMU)
Mathematics and the Privacy Laws (abstract) (ppt) (html) (pdf)

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Josh Benaloh (Microsoft)
The Current State of Cryptographic Election Protocols (abstract) (pdf)

2:00 Susmit Sarkar (CMU)

2:20 Poorvi Vora (HP)
The channel coding theorem and the security of binary randomization (abstract) (pps) (html) (pdf)

2:40 Yan Ke, Intel and Carnegie Mellon
Privacy-Preserving Image Processing in IrisNet (pps) (pdf)

3:00 Ralph Gross, Carnegie Mellon:
Preserving Privacy by De-Identifying Facial Images (abstract)

3:20 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

4:30 Discussion

Read the Abstracts

 

This material is based upon work supported by National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0122581.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the
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