The cryptography program at Simons is well under way and we're wrapping up our second week here at the wonderful Simons Institute at Berkeley. It's been a roller-coaster ride discussing the thrilling developments in the field: from fully homomorphic encryption to multilinear maps, obfuscation, differential privacy and more. The orientation/bootcamp week was an unqualified success: survey … Continue reading Cryptography Program@Simons: Historical Papers
Month: May 2015
Turning STOC 2017 into a “Theory Festival”
This blog post seeks to solicit input from the theoretical CS community on possible changes to STOC starting 2017. This planning was set in motion as a result of a long discussion session at FOCS 2014 (see these two earlier posts) when strong support was expressed for a longer “theory festival” that would include STOC but … Continue reading Turning STOC 2017 into a “Theory Festival”