The impact of scientific progress on legal doctrine is pervasive yet subtle. Research projects such as the Human Genome Initiative, nuclear fusion, and artificial intelligence all have the potential to shape legal standards by changing the way humanity views itself; however, Culture Clash: Law and Science in America, by Steven Goldberg, warns against allowing the current trend of a preeminent "...

Virtual Machines (VM) allow the execution of various operating systems and provide several functionalities which are nowadays strongly appreciated by developers and administrators (isolation between applications, exibility of resource management, and so on). As a direct consequence, virtualization has become a buzz word and a lot of virtualization solutions have been proposed, each providing pa...

Private Information Retrieval (PIR), despite being well studied, is computationally costly and arduous to scale. We explore lower-cost relaxations of information-theoretic PIR, based on dummy queries, sparse vectors, and compositions with an anonymity system. We prove the security of each scheme using a flexible differentially private definition for private queries that can capture notions of i...

Private Information Retrieval (PIR), despite being well studied, is computationally costly and arduous to scale. We explore lower-cost relaxations of information-theoretic PIR, based on dummy queries, sparse vectors, and compositions with an anonymity system. We prove the security of each scheme using a flexible differentially private definition for private queries that can capture notions of i...