Seny Kamara

Pun was on a whole different level. When Deep Cover 98 came out you could tell he was about to take over

The CNTR celebrates its one-year-anniversary and launches the Socially Responsible Computing Handbook. The horizon is wide open for Brown’s young and hungry Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR).

Can't believe we have survived an academic year: cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-04...

Brown & Slavery & Justice Brown’s investigation into its historical ties to slavery set a high standard for rigorous, unflinching analysis and serves as a model nationally for responsible scholarship.

Brown has often been one of the 1st Universities (if not the 1st) to do the right thing; which was one of the reasons I wanted to join. The appointment of Ruth Simmons & the slavery & justice report (slaveryandjustice.brown.edu) meant a lot to me as a student. Hope it keeps doing the right thing

Was this written at Ceremony? I felt like was in matcha hell while waiting for my espresso earlier today

Rethinking Security from the Ground Up – The Markup Professor Rikke Bjerg Jensen explores how social context shapes security

"Rethinking Security from the Ground Up" an interview with
@rikkebjerg.bsky.social (based in @isg-rhul.bsky.social) in @themarkup.org It's a good interview, go read it.

themarkup.org/hello-world/...

The 23andME bankruptcy shows why data protection is important. But for genetic data, the problems are even more serious. Genetic data is used in so many places and is collected so widely that there are dangerous leaks everywhere. So much so that we wrote a paper on it. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09716 1/n

Announcing the 2025 MongoDB PhD Fellowship Recipients | MongoDB Blog Learn about this year's MongoDB PhD Fellowship recipients, the areas that they study and what they have been working on.

Congratulations to the 2025 MongoDB PhD Fellows! This year's recipients are conducting exceptional research in database optimization, machine learning, and data structures—be sure to check out their work!
www.mongodb.com/blog/post/an...

I spoke to Wired about the 23andMe bankruptcy and how the company would protect your data. Spoiler: It won't.

My book “Metaracism” offers a way for us to see & understand the complexity, interconnections, & compounding effects produced by systemic racism. Once we know how it works, we can better see and target its weaknesses.

#SystemicRacism #BlackSky #booksky #AcademicSky #authors #SocialJustice

Brown's Center for Tech Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign is hosting an AI Policy Summer School in Providence and DC, hosted by @reniebird.bsky.social. Several great speakers. Deadline April 5.
cntr.brown.edu/summer-school

ORiGAMi: A Machine Learning Architecture for the Document Model | MongoDB Blog Learn how ORiGAMi adapts a Transformers-like ML architecture to MongoDB's document model to enable predictions directly from semi-structured data.

The MongoDB Research ML team just released their latest work on ORiGAMi: a machine learning architecture for the document model.

Check out the:

blog post: www.mongodb.com/blog/post/or...

paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.17348

code: github.com/mongodb-labs...

Mathematical Pluralism Multiplicity in the math of AI, Systems, and Society.

On mathematical pluralism and the diffraction limits of our computational lenses.

Standing up for Science It's been forever since I've written a blog post. Twitter, and then X, and then Bluesky, has absorbed most of my hot takes. But I think mor...

It was quite an experience drafting and delivering remarks at Stand Up For Science RI. I do a ton of public speaking, but speaking at a rally is an entirely different proposition. I wrote a brief note about my experience, including the text of my remarks.

blog.geomblog.org/2025/03/stan...

The call for submissions for the Re-Imagining Cryptography & Privacy Workshop (ReCAP 2025) is now available on our website: recapworkshop.online

Deadline: April 10, 2025.

We welcome work and perspectives from social scientists, humanities scholars, community organizations, and technologists!

Reading the news about NSF REUs being canceled is awful. I directly benefited from participating in UCSB's math REU in number theory and UCLA's summer school in logic, both funded by the NSF.

Crypto 2025 Crypto 2025

If you need a visa to attend Crypto 2025 (crypto.iacr.org/2025/) please make sure to start the process early this year by reaching out the general chair Francisco Rodríguez Henríquez at crypto2025@iacr.org

They already tried, with MOOCs. We were told we'd need only like 5 universities to produce "the best" content, the rest could shut down and everyone could learn from MOOCs instead. Which showed exactly how much they understood about education, learning, humans, and other things not measured in bits.

A headshot of Sara Neequaye

Statistics allowed Sara Neequaye to see the direct application of math. Unsatisfied with taking college courses in calculus, she became interested in learning statistics and figured it would pair well with her public health interests: magazine.amstat.org/...

We recently made a major update to our statistical framework for modeling and analyzing leakage in cryptography: eprint.iacr.org/2023/813.pdf

This version includes bounds for several statistical inference attacks using new entropy notions and introduces an approach to automating leakage attacks

The End of Science’s Peacetime Opinion | Defending the practice of science from its adversaries will require dealing with some uncomfortable truths.

"One thing is certain: The changes we make ourselves will be healthier than the ones our adversaries demand."

New work for @undark.org:
undark.org/2025/02/06/o...

We need a federal data privacy law now.

Or we’ll continue down the road of a piecemeal strategy of banning popular foreign apps, while the US data broker industry continues to monetize the data of all Americans, mostly without our consent or notice. #AIBillofRights

Come work with the rather excellent @bedow.bsky.social (and also me)

might be to serve some kind of native advertising 😔

Jimmy Carter was the only US President to have lived in public housing.

He lived a life of service and consequence. May he rest in peace.

Submission deadline approaching for the IACR Communications in Cryptology (CiC).

Don’t miss your chance to contribute to this diamond open access journal.

Deadline: January 13, 2025 (AoE)

Details and submission guidelines: cic.iacr.org/callforpapers

#cryptography #iacr

If you’re curious about the design and analysis of encrypted algorithms and encrypted databases, I’m putting together a collection of resources at encryptedsystems.org

Hello folks, ramping up my participation on this lovely platform.

I know the election was last week, but if you want to learn more about how voting works, the mechanics of it, especially in the US, you might enjoy my podcast.

how.voting.works

3 episodes out, 1 more later this week.