About the Brandeis ProgramThe Brandeis program seeks to develop the technical means to protect the private and proprietary information of individuals and enterprises.The potential impact of the Brandeis program is dramatic. Assured data privacy can open the doors to personal medicine, effective smart cities, detailed global data and fine-grained internet awareness.Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyDARPA_46ad30a4-ad5d-11df-9c96-10167a64ea2aLouis BrandeisThe right to privacy, as Louis Brandeis first expounded in 1890, is a consequence of modernity because we better understand that harm comes in more ways than just the physical. Numerous recent incidents involving the disclosure of data have heightened society’s awareness of the extreme vulnerability of private information within cyberspace and of the relationship of private data with personal and national security. There is a growing desire to understand, control and manage the “digital contrail” of personal information continually being produced – data that other people or organizations could exploit.Dr. John LaunchburyInformation Innovation Office (I2O), Office Director -- Dr. John Launchbury joined DARPA as a Program Manager in July 2014 and was named Director of the Information Innovation Office (I2O) in September 2015. In this role he develops Office strategy, staffs the Office, and works with I2O program managers to develop new programs and transition program products. Dr. Launchbury has been instrumental in formulating and implementing I2O research thrusts in programming languages, security, privacy and cryptography. Before joining DARPA, Dr. Launchbury was chief scientist of Galois, Inc., which he founded in 1999 to address challenges in information assurance through the application of functional programming and formal methods. Under his leadership, the company experienced strong growth, successfully delivered on multiple contract awards and was recognized for thought leadership in high-assurance technology development. Prior to founding Galois, Dr. Launchbury was a full professor in computer science and engineering at the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI) School of Science and Engineering, which was subsequently incorporated into the Oregon Health and Science University. At OGI, he earned several awards for outstanding teaching and gained international recognition for his work on the analysis and semantics of programming languages, the Haskell programming language in particular. Dr. Launchbury received first-class honors in mathematics from Oxford University in 1985, holds a Ph.D. in computing science from the University of Glasgow and won the British Computer Society's distinguished dissertation prize. In 2010, Dr. Launchbury was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).... personal medicine, effective smart cities, detailed global data and fine-grained internet awareness._05757aaf-6ec0-11e5-acb6-545e66a7d270To develop the technical means to protect the private and proprietary information of individuals and enterprises._05757b4e-6ec0-11e5-acb6-545e66a7d270InformationThe collection and analysis of information on massive scales has clear benefits for society: it can help businesses optimize online commerce, medical workers address public health issues and governments interrupt terrorist activities.AnalysisOptimizationPrivacyYet at the same time, respect for privacy is a cornerstone principle of our democracy.DemocracyData SharingEnable safe and predictable sharing of data in which privacy is preserved._05757c5c-6ec0-11e5-acb6-545e66a7d270The vision of the Brandeis program is to break the tension between: (a) maintaining privacy and (b) being able to tap into the huge value of data. Rather than having to balance between them, Brandeis aims to build a third option -- enabling safe and predictable sharing of data in which privacy is preserved.Tools & TechniquesDevelop tools and techniques that enable us to build systems in which private data may be used only for its intended purpose and no other._05757ce8-6ec0-11e5-acb6-545e66a7d270The objective of Brandeis is to develop tools and techniques that enable us to build systems in which private data may be used only for its intended purpose and no other.Data ProtectionProvide data owners with mechanisms for protecting their data before sharing it with a data user._05757dd8-6ec0-11e5-acb6-545e66a7d2701Data OwnersIt seeks to restructure our relationship with data by providing the data owner with mechanisms for protecting their data before sharing it with a data user.ChoicesProvide a meaningful way for individuals and enterprises to make choices about how to share data._05757e6e-6ec0-11e5-acb6-545e66a7d2702IndividualsEnterprisesIt will also tackle a cognitive challenge: the volume and complexity of data means that individuals or enterprises need a meaningful way to make choices about how to share data, including understanding the implications of the use of any stored data about them.2015-10-09http://www.darpa.mil/program/brandeisOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net