Five-College Speaker Series on Information Assurance
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Joan Feigenbaum |
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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, data owners, data users, or other relevant parties. As a result, concern about the ownership, control, privacy, and accuracy of these data has become a top priority. PORTIA (http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/) is a large-ITR project focused on 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 be an overview of PORTIA suitable both for a Computer Science audience and for a "Society and Technology" audience. Biography: Joan Feigenbaum is a Professor in the Computer Science Department 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, most recently in the Information Sciences Research Center of the AT&T Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, NJ. Her research interests include Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright. Her current and recent professional service activities include Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cryptology, Board of Directors Member for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, member of the NAS Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Program Chair for the 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, and Program Co-Chair for the 2004 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. Professor Feigenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM. | |