As we draw to the close of an unusual year marked by the pandemic and the most difficult times it brought to us and our loved ones, the OpenDP team would like to extend our best wishes to you and your family this holiday season. Since our Community Meeting in May, we have been hard…
OpenDP Team Discussion with Red Hat
Dear OpenDP Community, We are writing to share some interesting discussions between the OpenDP team and Red Hat. James Honaker and Mercè Crosas discussed the importance of data sharing and privacy preservation, in both scientific and computer technology domains, with Sherard Griffin, Director at Red Hat in the AI Center of Excellence, in Red Hat’s Regional…
OpenDP Hiring Scientific Staff
We are no longer hiring for these positions. If you are interested in working with OpenDP and we do not have any current openings, please feel free to contact us at info@opendp.org. The OpenDP project seeks to hire 1-2 scientists to work with faculty directors Gary King and Salil Vadhan and the OpenDP Community to…
OpenDP Advisory Board Report
We are grateful to the many thought leaders who have agreed to serve on the inaugural OpenDP Advisory Board. The first Advisory Board meeting was held as part of the first OpenDP Community Meeting, on May 15th, 2020. The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including governance, use cases, community role / mission and…
Update on the OpenDP-Microsoft Collaboration
Gary King, OpenDP Faculty Co-Director In September 2019, Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science announced a large-scale collaboration with Microsoft to develop open source tools for differential privacy, work that is now part of the broader OpenDP community effort. We are thrilled to report on the progress our collaboration has made, and we write today…
Building an Inclusive Community
Salil Vadhan, OpenDP Faculty Co-Director Dear OpenDP Community, Like many others, we on the OpenDP team are angered and saddened by the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many Black Americans before them. We spent last Wednesday participating in #ShutDownSTEM, reflecting on the systemic racism in academia and the tech…
Community News – Social Science One
The following news from the Social Science One project may be of interest to the OpenDP Community. If you have news you would like to share with the community, please feel free to use this mailing list community@opendp.org. We’ve updated the Social Science One – Facebook “URLs dataset”. It now has 17 trillion cell values with…
Dataverse Community Meeting and Integration of OpenDP with Data Repositories
One of OpenDP use cases is the integration of OpenDP tools with public data repositories to release differentially private statistics of sensitive data hosted in the repository. Public data repositories have become ubiquitous in research and are a key part of the research lifecycle. Funders increasingly require sharing the research data associated with a funded…
The OpenDP Community
Dear OpenDP Community, THANK YOU for your wonderful participation in the first OpenDP Community Meeting last week! In spite of the online format with over 400 registrants, we felt a strong sense of connection and shared mission being built. We came away energized and inspired by the ideas and feedback you all provided. For those…