Rice University is hosting a half-day symposium on data privacy, January 28, 2019, which coincides with Data Privacy Day in the United States. Speakers and panelists will provide a platform for stimulating discussion on the current practice, challenges and research in data privacy and protection as we face a world where digital information impacts every aspect of our lives. The symposium will provide the audience with an up-to-date overview of some of the more relevant data privacy issues facing us today. Issues include computational and statistical technologies being developed to secure our digital footprint, policy changes around data privacy, and the ethics of using data. The keynote speaker, Simson Garfinkel, is the leading computer scientist on data privacy from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Kinder Institute for Urban Research and Ken Kennedy Institute are co-sponsors of the event. Contact [email protected] for more information. Schedule Program, 1:00-5:00 pm , followed by a reception Speakers Marie Lynn MirandaHoward R. Hughes Provost and Professor of Statistics, Rice University John C. DuchiAssistant Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Rachel Cummings Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech Dan S. Wallach Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Keynote Simson L. GarfinkelSenior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access, U.S. Census Bureau
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