Computing with Private Data

Speaker:	Professor Boi FALTINGS
		Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
		Lausanne, Switzerland

Title:		"Computing with Private Data"

Date:		Monday, 15 March 2010

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26) HKUST

Abstract:

Many information processing tasks involve sensitive private data from
multiple participants. Security leaks, as highlighted by several prominent
recent cases, makes participants reluctant to provide this data.

One elegant solution to security leaks is to distribute computation among
the entities holding the data and thus never explicitly share the data. I
show two types of secure multiparty computation protocols that allow
computation without putting any private information at risk, and discuss
their application to double auctions and scheduling


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Biography:

Boi Faltings is a full professor of computer science at the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he heads the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory. His main research contributions are in the area
of qualitative and model-based reasoning, case-based reasoning, constraint
programming, and distributed problem-solving. He has co-founded 6
companies in e-commerce and computer security and acted as advisor to
several other companies world-wide. Prof. Faltings has published over 300
refereed papers and graduated over 25 Ph.D. students, several of which
have won national and international awards. Boi Faltings is a fellow of
the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. He has
served as head of the computer science department from 1996-1998 and as
head of the Institute of Core Computing Sciences from 2005-2008. He holds
a Diploma from ETH Zurich and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.