On 03/08/16 20:36, Ellison Anne Williams wrote: > Hi Suneel, > > I just (yesterday) submitted a proposal for Hadoop Summit Tokyo in October. > Here is the information: > > ***** > > Title: Scalable Private Information Retrieval — Introducing Apache Pirk > (incubating) > > Abstract: Querying information over TBs of data where no one can see what > you query or the responses obtained? It sounds like science fiction, but it > is actually the science of Private Information Retrieval (PIR). This talk > will introduce Apache Pirk - a new incubating Apache project designed to > provide a framework for scalable, distributed PIR. We will discuss the > motivation for Apache Pirk, its distributed implementations in platforms > such as Spark and Storm, it’s current algorithms, the power of homomorphic > encryption, and take a look at the path forward. Any scenario in which a > user wishes to ask completely private questions of a dataset to which they > have been granted access is a great application for Apache Pirk - we will > discuss such scenarios as well. > Bio: Ellison Anne Williams is a creator and PMC member of Apache Pirk, a > pure mathematician by training, and a practical computer scientist in real > life. Her passion is doing cool stuff with massive amounts of data. > > ****** > > I was considering submitting the same for ApacheCon under the 'incubating' > section and am happy to do so -- I will tweak it according to some specific > questions ApacheCon wants addressed in their CFP. I think that we can have > two 'Introducing Pirk' talks in rapid succession (Hadoop Summit is late > October, ApacheCon is mid November). From that point, I think that we have > to move beyond the introductory talks. > > Thoughts?
Yes, you should definitely put in a talk for ApacheCon / Apache Big Data Europe too. I have sent a submission for the Big Data Europe conference. I would do a Pirk talk too but don't know enough to answer the tough questions yet ;-) Regards, Tim
