WhiteNoise is the newly available Differential Privacy System by OpenDP.  The intent of Differential Privacy is to preserve the security of personally identifiable information & prevent against database reconstruction attacks.  The methods provided by the WhiteNoise system are part of a toolkit that enable researchers to readily enhance their existing processes with differential privacy techniques. 

The Differential Privacy System

The Differential Privacy…

How do we increase diversity amongst our event speakers?  To improve something, we must first measure it.  The Face API allows us to collect some of these demographics from past events that we may not otherwise be able to collect, which may allow us greater insight into how we can improve these trends.

The Facial Recognition API is part of the Microsoft AI Cognitive Services suite.  The Face service detects human faces in an image and returns the rectangle coordinates of their…