Election Integrity

CYBER ALLIANCE SERIES

Ron Rivest, MIT

When:
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Event Start Time: 3:30 pm (including reception before)
Event End Time: 5:00 pm (including reception after)

Where:
BU Law, Faculty Lounge Rm 1503

Abstract: In this Cyber Alliance talk, MIT Prof. Ron Rivest will review the problem of election security, focusing on the problem of ensuring that the reported outcome is correct for each contest. His work considers statistical post-election audits (both Bayesian and non-Bayesian), as well as methods based on cryptographic methods (such as elections that are “end-to-end verifiable”). He will also discuss novel sampling methods, such as the “k-cut” method.

Bio: Professor Rivest is an Institute Professor at MIT. He joined MIT in 1974 as a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a member of the lab’s Theory of Computation Group and a founder of its Cryptography and Information Security Group. He is a co-author (with Cormen, Leiserson, and Stein) of the text, Introduction to Algorithms. He is also a founder of RSA Data Security, now named RSA Security (the security division of EMC), Verisign, and Peppercoin. Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, algorithms, and voting security.