8:44 pm May 14th, 2008 by wkallander

Today we mostly checked in about the status of our projects. Professor Wu did mention that Professor Vemuri (retired from LLNL) is interested in terrorism applications and I might want to write him a note to express interest in that area.

We also had a lengthy discussion about privacy (and inference) in social networking. In particular, we talked about how it might help us redesign social network architectures to prevent privacy attacks? I was immediately reminded of the guys that were able to discover identities of people in the Netflix Prize dataset using their Netflix reviews. I’ll have to remember to look up their paper.

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