Professor George Pappas' NSF CPS-PI Meeting Keynote features TerraSwarm

University of Pennsylvania Professor George Pappas presented a Science of CPS Keynote at the NSF 2013 CPS Principal Investigators' Meeting, Arlington.  The keynote was titled, "Differential Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems." To illustrate that the time is now for this research, Pappas used the TSensors Summit and TerraSwarm.

Pappas' summary points were:

• Many cyber-physical applications raise privacy concerns that need to be addressed to encourage user participation.
• There is a need for privacy-preserving mechanisms for various types of dynamic systems and data.
• Characterizing privacy-utility tradeoffs requires a quantitative definition of privacy.
• System and control theoretic tools (optimal estimators, system gains) can be used to design differentially private mechanisms

Reference:
George Pappas. Differential Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems, Talk or presentation, 17, October, 2013; Science of CPS Keynote at the NSF 2013 CPS Principal Investigators' Meeting, Arlington.