Jefferson's Wheel

I’m program co-chair, with Tal Malkin and Dongyan Xu, for ACM CCS 2017.

The conference will be in Dallas, 30 Oct – 3 Nov 2017. Paper submissions are due May 19 (8:29PM PDT). It’ll be a while before the CFP is ready, but the conference website is now up!

I led a discussion breakout at the NSF SaTC PIs meeting on Secure Computation: Progress, Methods, Challenges, and Open Questions. To set up the session, I looked at the number of papers in Google scholar that match "secure computation" OR "multi-party computation" (which seems like a fairly good measure of research activity in the area):

There were 1800 MPC papers published in 2015! This means in one year, there are most papers published on MPC than there were from the beginning of time through the end of 2004. Gotta get reading…