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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : A breakthrough in anonymity X utility for anonymiz
 ed analytics
DTSTART:20161205T161500
DTEND:20161205T171500
DTSTAMP:20260509T234215Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION: By : Paul Francis - Max Planck Institute for Software System
 s\n\nAbstract :\nWorking over the past few years in close conjunction with
  the MPI-SWS spinoff Aircloak\, we have developed what we believe is a bre
 akthrough in the anonymity X utility "product".  Our system\, dubbed the 
 "Cloak"\, may  be installed in front of any existing SQL database (unmodi
 fied)\, with negligible configuration.  Untrusted analysts may submit an 
 unlimited number of SQL queries to the database through the Cloak with\, s
 o far as we know\, virtually no possibility of inferring individual user i
 nformation from the answers.  The noise added by the Cloak is minimal: Ga
 ussian with a typical standard deviation of 2 for counting queries. The SQ
 L queries may be composed of the "aggregate subset" of SQL\, which include
 s most standard math\, string\, datetime\, and aggregate functions\, as we
 ll as custom functions.  This talk will describe cloak operation\, presen
 t a case study based on a real medical database\, and give an overview of 
 the anonymization mechanisms.\n\nBio :\nPaul Francis is a tenured faculty 
 at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. Paul has held
  research positions at Cornell University\, ACIRI\, NTT Software Labs\, Be
 llcore\,and MITRE\, and was Chief Scientist at two Silicon Valley startups
 . In the past\, Paul’s research centered around routing and addressing p
 roblems in the Internet and P2P networks. Paul’s innovations include NAT
 \, shared-tree multicast\, the first P2P multicast system\, the first DHT 
 (as part of landmark routing)\, and Virtual Aggregation. More recently\, P
 aul’s research has focused on Internet privacy with a focus on private b
 ehavioral advertising systems and anonymized analytics. Paul is cofounder 
 of the startup Aircloak.\n\nMore information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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