Privacy and Security: Technology, Policy, and Society, April 22-23

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and The Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University present "Privacy and Security: Technology, Policy, and Society" on April 22-23, 2004 at Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street in Cambridge. This symposium reflects the broad interest in privacy and security matters that has grown out of the widespread use of computing and communications systems. Computer scientists and engineers, legal scholars, political scientists, and others interested in understanding and addressing problems related to privacy and security concerns are encouraged to attend. The event planning committee includes Berkman Center Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain. For details and schedule, please click "Read more..." below.

Keynote and panel sessions are free and open to the public. Small workshops enabling researchers in the field to discover and share common interests and complementary approaches require registration. Registration closes on April 9th.

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2004 1:30pm Keynote Michael Rabin, Harvard University

2:45-4:15pm Panel Session #1: Electronic Voting Peter Neumann, SRI International Computer Science Laboratory Ted Selker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2004 9:30-11:00am Panel Session #2: Electronic Commercial Communications Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research Marshall van Alstyne, University of Michigan

11:15-12:45pm Panel Session #3: Control of Personal Information Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University Peter Swire, Ohio State University and George Washington University School of Law

1:00-2:30pm Concurrent Workshops (registration required) 1. Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Identity Topics include: commercial applications of anonymity; technologies for identification and authentication; anonymous email and other electronic communications; bio-metrics; and credentials and identity theft.

2. Electronic Voting Topics include: security concerns in electronic and Internet voting; support for disabled voters; issues in software certification and voter-verifiable ballots; and anonymity and availability.

3. Intellectual Property & Digital Rights Management Topics include: copyright and anti-circumvention laws; software and other electronic piracy; technologies for enterprise rights management and DRM as a business enabler; and trust management and secure computing platforms.

4. Personal Information Policy Topics include: issues in health, medical, consumer, and financial privacy; technologies for exchanging, merging, and accessing private data; privacy preserving data-mining; and privacy-enhancing tools.

Symposium Organizing Committee:

Stuart Shieber, Chair Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Jean Camp Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Michael Smith McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Harvard University

Madhu Sudan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003-2004 Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Salil Vadhan Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University Fall 2003 Fellow, Radcliffe Insititute for Advanced Study

Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School