Cutting-Edge Technology on Display
Microsoft Research’s annual innovation fair, TechFest, draws thousands of Microsoft employees to view futuristic projects that grow out of the company’s global investment in basic research. Take a quick journey through some innovations and cool…
Towards more Practical Secure Computation: Efficient Protocols for Secure Linear Algebra
“Secure Computation” has been a classic and central question in modern cryptography with a large set of potential applications. Mining large genomic databases, private scientific computation, and studying properties of shared networks are just a…
Candidate Talk
In the recent past, anti-P2P companies have successfully curtailed the distribution of targeted content over a number of P2P file-sharing systems, including Kazaa and eDonkey. More recently, anti-P2P companies have begun to attack BitTorrent. In…
The Sage Mathematical Software Project
Sage is a large mathematical software project based at the University of Washington that is funded by Microsoft, the National Science Foundation, and other organizations. The longterm goal of Sage is provide a viable free…
Arithmetic Intersection and a conjecture of Lauter
Motivated by her joint work with H. Cohn on genus two curve crypotosystem, Lauter gave a very inspiring conjecture on the CM value of Igusa invariants. They need to compute these values to construct `good’…