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In the news | The Register
SEAL up your data just like Microsoft: Redmond open-sources ‘simple’ homomorphic encryption blueprints
To accelerate the standardisation of homomorphic encryption, Microsoft has open sourced its ‘Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library.’ Homomorphic encryption is designed to better protect Internet-facing databases.
In the news | Packt
Microsoft open sources (SEAL) Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library 3.1.0, with aims to standardize homomorphic encryption
Yesterday, Microsoft with the goal to standardize homomorphic encryption, open sourced Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL) under the MIT License. It is an easy-to-use homomorphic encryption library developed by researchers in the Cryptography Research group at Microsoft.
In the news | Decipher
Microsoft open sources SEAL homomorphic encryption library
The library is designed specifically with cloud computing use cases in mind, giving customers a way to interact with encrypted data stored on cloud services without downloading and decrypting it, or having to give the encryption key to the cloud…
In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft SEAL Arrives as Simple and Efficient Homomorphic Encryption Solution
Microsoft Research has announced a new homomorphic encryption library that balances privacy and convenience. Called Microsoft Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library (Microsoft SEAL), the service is described as easy-to-use by the research team.
In the news | Intel AI
HE-Transformer for nGraph: Enabling Deep Learning on Encrypted Data
We are pleased to announce the open source release of HE-Transformer, a homomorphic encryption (HE) backend to nGraph, Intel’s neural network compiler. HE allows computation on encrypted data. This capability, when applied to machine learning, allows data owners to gain…
In the news | Medscape
How Microsoft Aims to Help ‘Solve the Problem’ of Cancer
Software giant Microsoft has entered the healthcare arena, and improving cancer care and diagnostics is high on its list, company executives told Medscape Medical News during a recent visit to the Seattle headquarters. One of the company’s predictions: “Ten years…
Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
Episode 50, November 14, 2018 – Dr. Tashev gives us an overview of the quest for better sound processing and speech enhancement, tells us about the latest innovations in 3D audio, and explains why the research behind audio processing technology…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s open source AirSim platform comes to Unity
Microsoft announced a collaboration with Unity Technologies that’ll bring Microsoft Research’s AirSim, an open source aerial informatics and robotics platform, to Unity.
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft plans to support Carnegie Mellon’s edge computing research with hardware, Azure services
Like cloud computing and mobile computing, edge computing will require new ways of thinking about application development; older methods designed for different styles of computing make certain assumptions about performance and availability that don’t necessarily make sense on the edge.