Confidentiality and Privacy in a Globalized Technology Society
Heinz School Professor of Statistics George Duncan is currently the Lord
Simon Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester.
On April 19, he presented a talk, "Realizing
the Benefits of Statistical Research", to the School of Social Sciences and
the Centre for Census and Survey Research. On April 29 he visited the
University of Southampton and presented a talk, "Protecting Tabular Data
through Cyclic Perturbation" (which is joint work with Heinz School
Professor Stephen Roehrig), to the School of Social Sciences.
On May 3 Duncan is the keynote speaker at the International Symposium--Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure in the 21st Century at the University of Manchester, presenting a talk entitled, "Confidentiality and Privacy in a Globalized Technology Society". On May 5 he visits the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in London along with Gerald Gates, Chief Privacy Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau, to discuss technical disclosure issues, data collection and survey issues, and privacy and policy issues with ONS staff, and again present the talk, "Protecting Tabular Data through Cyclic Perturbation".
Professor Duncan is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1996, the ASA elected him Pittsburgh Statistician of the Year.