Yale C2 Distinguished Lecture and Saybrook College Master's Tea
April 8, 2010
Master's Tea - 3:30 p.m., Saybrook College Master's House, 90 High St.
Lecture - 5:30 p.m., LC102, 63 High St.

Refreshments will be served at 5:15 prior to the talk in LC196 (Foyer)

Host: Computing and the Arts faculty

Speaker: Hany Farid, Dartmouth College
Title: Digital Image Forensics

Abstract: Photography lost its innocence many years ago. Shortly after the first commercially available camera was introduced, photographs were being manipulated and altered. With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation of digital images is becoming more common. We are seeing the impact of these technologies in nearly every corner of our lives. As the technology that allows for digital media to be manipulated and distorted is developing at break-neck speeds, our understanding of the technological, ethical, and legal implications is lagging behind. I will discuss some of these issues and describe computational techniques which we have developed for detecting tampering in digital media.

Bio: Hany Farid received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Following a two-year post-doctoral position in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he joined the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth in 1999. Hany is the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, and the Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

From digital forensics to the digital reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian tombs, Hany works and plays with digital media at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, mathematics, optics, and psychology.