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Patient genomes are interpretable only in the context of other genomes. However, privacy concerns over genetic data oftentimes deter individuals from contributing their genomes to scientific studies and prevent researchers from sharing their data with the scientific community. In this talk, I will describe how we can leverage secure multiparty computation techniques from modern cryptography to perform useful scientific computations on genomic data while protecting the privacy of the participants' genomes. In multiple real scenarios, our methods successfully identified the disease-causing genes and even discovered previously unrecognized disease genes, all while keeping nearly all of the participants' most sensitive genomic information private. We believe that our techniques will help make currently restricted data more readily available to the scientific community and enable individuals to contribute their genomes to a study without compromising their personal privacy.
The material from this talk is based on joint works with Gill Bejerano, Bonnie Berger, Johannes A. Birgmeier, Dan Boneh, Hyunghoon Cho, and Karthik A. Jagadeesh.

Following his earlier publication of three volumes of China through Western Eyes (1991–96), Roberts now concentrates on the Western perception of Chinese food and eating behaviour. In the first half of the present book, Roberts quotes travellers' tales from Marco Polo and other adventurers, personal journals of European missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries, reports of English envoys such as Lord Macartney, merchants of the 19th century, and journalists' accounts from the Second World War to the Cultural Revolution. Part one, "West to East" starts with a succinctly written introduction and a chapter that draws from anthropological works on Chinese diet, food beliefs, and table manners. Roberts then discusses Western perceptions (more often imaginations) of Chinese food, which transformed from curiosity to aversion, rejection, and eventual popular acceptance.

AbstractThere are n boxes with box i having a quota value Balls arrive sequentially, with each ball having a binary vector attached to it, with the interpretation being that if Xi = 1 then that ball is eligible to be put in box i. A ball's vector is revealed when it arrives and the ball can be put in any alive box for which it is eligible, where a box is said to be alive if it has not yet met its quota. Assuming that the components of a vector are independent, we are interested in the policy that minimizes, either stochastically or in expectation, the number of balls that need arrive until all boxes have met their quotas. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 62:23–31, 2015