The following schedule and descriptions are tentative and subject to change. Throughout the semester, this information will be updated.
| Week No. |
Date | Description | Assignment Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Tue | 1/17 | Welcome!; Course goal; Description of projects and research activities.
Slides |
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| 1 Thu | 1/19 | Social Security numbers; Identity theft; The Identity Angel Project.
Slides, Video, Paper, Identity Angel Project, Assignment 1 |
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| 2 Tue | 1/24 | Measuring performance; RosterFinder (and FERPA)
ID Angel Update, Analysis slides, Roster Finder: slides, paper |
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| 2 Thu | 1/26 | Name extraction (Guest lecture: William Gronim);
Writing academic papers
Name extraction slides, Writing slides, Find MISM Candidates Project, Email Social Network Project, Assignment 2 |
Assignment 1, Update |
| 3 Tue | 1/31 | Biometrics; Sweeney Identity Phone; The Tracemetrics Project
Biometrics slides, Tracemetrics slides |
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| 3 Thu | 2/2 | Student work show-off; Face Book (Guest lecture: Ralph Gross)
Face Book slides |
Assignment 2, Solutions |
| 4 Tue | 2/7 | Pushing projects further
ID Angel Update, Email Net Update, Assignment 3 |
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| 4 Thu | 2/9 | Image processing; Relational databases in Java
Image-J slides, Database slides, test0.java, test1.java, test2.java, test3.java, test4.java |
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| 5 Tue | 2/14 | Data purchase; Privacy survey
Survey |
Assignment 3 |
| 5 Thu | 2/16 | Data sharing risks and practices; Tracemetrics update
Data sharing slides, Tracemetrics update |
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| 6 Tue | 2/21 | More on risks; Working with JPEG images; Tracemetrics and AAMs on Hands (Guest presentation: Ralph Gross)
AAMs slides, JPEG lab, Assignment 4 |
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| 6 Thu | 2/23 | The Discriminating Features Challenge: Sweeney's Order by Closest Neighbors
Algorithm; Yiheng Li presents Correlation Coefficients and also a Fractal Approach.
Sweeney algorithm, Yiheng's slides |
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| 7 Tue | 2/28 | All the Data on All the People
Data lab |
Assignment 4 |
| 7 Thu | 3/2 | Scavenger hunt results
Data lab results, Face Book |
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| 8 Tue | 3/7 | Minimal risk strategies for tracking people; Privacy Incident Reports (Guest presentation: William Gronim)
Slides, Sony Root Kit Incident |
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| 8 Thu | 3/9 | Provably privacy-preserving strategies for tracking people
Slides (Updated), Warranty Excerpt, Privacy Compliance Excerpt, VAWA, Assignment 5 |
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| Tue | 3/14 | Spring Break! | |
| Thu | 3/16 | Spring Break! | |
| 9 Tue | 3/21 | Bio-terrorism surveillance, Distributed systems with provable privacy protection
Shelter Tracking (Updated); Distributed bioterrorism surveillance: PrivaSum, RandomOrder |
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| 9 Thu | 3/23 | Medical surveillance; Surveillance under HIPAA
slides, paper Assignment 6 |
Assignment 5 |
| 10 Tue | 3/28 | Webcam Surveillance
slides, paper; Lab, Lab Results |
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| 10 Thu | 3/30 | Webcam examples; Lab Results
Other sample papers Watching people in waiting rooms, Watching people consume bagels, Analyzing lengths of phonecalls, Vehicle traffic flow |
Assignment 6 (submit 1) |
| 11 Tue | 4/4 | RFID Surveillance, Guest Lecture by Michael Shamos
slides |
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| 11 Thu | 4/6 | Assignment discussions led by Yiheng Li | Assignment 6 (submit 2) |
| 12 Tue | 4/11 | The Concerns of Ian Kerr: technology that makes you feel icky | |
| 12 Thu | 4/13 | Face recognition and Face de-identification, Guest Lecture by Ralph Gross | |
| 13 Tue | 4/18 | Video surveillance projects review
slides |
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| 13 Thu | 4/20 | SCS 50 and Carnival Break! | |
| 14 Tue | 4/25 | In-class presentations by Students | Assignment 6 (final submit) |
| 14 Thu | 4/27 | In-class presentations by Students | Assignment 7 (In-class Presentation) |
| 15 Tue | 5/2 | Work on Project Fair Website
Project Fair, Assignment 8a (Web Presentation) |
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| 15 Thu | 5/4 | Work on Project Fair Website
Project Fair, Assignment 8b (Web Presentation) |
Assignment 8 (Web Presentation) |
| 5/9 | Project Fair | Assignment 6 (Make-up) |
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