Student Projects:Database Protection

This is a placeholder for the project page for Database Protection and Access to Scientific Research. More to come.

Thanks for putting all this together for us Damon! I like your thoughts on Database Protection (posted on the original page). I guess there are two environments in general I should look at, the first is private sector research loosely defined as "for profit research" and public sector research. I think the public sector angle is interesting as HIPPA confounds collaberation in an environment where protecting your work really isn't the goal - in fact sharing your work is pretty much the whole point.

How do you guys want to proceed, are there specific topics that you're interested in? If so maybe we can figure out a format that allows us to head down different paths yet end up with a collaberative work at the end. If not maybe we can work different angles of the same specific topic, or...

David - glad to have you on board!

(Damon) Just a few quick thoughts... do you want to stick purely with the access-to-scientific-data issue? We could explore a few related topics, like privacy. Actually, if we're going to talk about HIPAA probably want to spend quite a bit of time on privacy.

As far as dividing things up, one thing we could do is have one person explore the arguments in favor of db protection and another person explore the arguments against, and then try to tie them together so that the paper as a whole is balanced.

We should get together during a class break... it sounds like Professor Lazowska was thinking in terms of groups of 4+, so we may want to do some recruiting.