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Cray Distinguished Speaker Series
Monday, January 26, 2009
| Presenter: | Joan Feigenbaum |
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| Affiliation: | Yale University |
| Website: | http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/ |
| Time: | 11:15 - 12:15 |
| Location: | EE/CS 3-125 |
| Host: | Nick Hopper |
| Schedule: | View Extended Schedule Details |
Increasing use of computers and networks in business, government, recreation, and almost all aspects of daily life has led to a proliferation of online sensitive data, i.e., data that, if used improperly, can harm the data subjects. As a result, concern about the ownership, control, privacy, and accuracy of this data has become a top priority. The PORTIA project, which is now in its sixth year, studies both the technical challenges of handling sensitive data and the policy and legal issues facing data subjects, data owners, and data users. This talk will overview the entire project and then present a few of the recent results in more detail.
Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated very broadly in the company?s Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99. Professor Feigenbaum?s research interests include Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the NSF-funded PORTIA Project and the ONR-funded SPYCE Project. She currently serves on the NAS Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, on the Scientific Council of the Web Sciences Research Institute, on the GENI Science Council, as an Executive-Committee Member-at-Large of the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory (Sigact), and as Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (Sigecom). Professor Feigenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM.
