GM Audimax / TU Vienna, Thursday 10.11.2016 from 16:00 to 18:00.
On invitation of the course "Privacy Enhancing Technologies" will Bill Binney come to TU Wien to give a "Teach-In". He will first give insights into his work on big data, after which he is happy to discuss algorithms, set-theory and privacy in big data analysis with the students.

Bill Binney, crypto-mathematician, codebreaker, analyst and late Technical Director of the NSA, in the late 1990s developed a ground-breaking non-privacy-invasive surveillance tool that managed to cope with the three biggest challenges of the digital age: the volume, velocity and variety of data - big data, as it has become the buzz-word - all based on metadata-analysis. Austrian filmmaker Friedrich Moser's feature documentary "A GOOD AMERICAN" tells the story of that program, code-named ThinThread.

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