The need for a forum devoted to the presentation of works in the Theory of Cryptography was first noted in the early 1990's. Early attempts to partially meet the need led to the establishing of the Theory of Cryptography Library (by Oded Goldreich in 1996). The effort involved in running a conference deterred an attempt to establish TCC till 2002, when the idea was put forward by Mihir Bellare. A steering committee was soon formed, and it decided to hold the 1st TCC in February 2004.
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Time: February 19-21, 2004 Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA General chair: Shafi Goldwasser Program chair: Moni Naor Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 2951 | The 1st TCC was a great success. The scientific program was of good quality (at least as good as the average CRYPTO/EuroCrypt quality), the attendance was beyond our expectations (with approximately 100 registered), and the atmosphere was full of excitement and energy. |
It seems that the a priori feeling that this conference is needed turned out to be a big understatement: the submissions and the attendance (with many traveling from the West Coast, Europe and even Japan) speak for themselves. Indeed, if TCC had not existed then most of the works presented in it would have been "lost" (i.e., would have not appeared in any conference).
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Time: February 10-12, 2005 Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA General chair: Shafi Goldwasser Program chair: Joe Kilian Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 3378 |
The 2nd TCC re-located in MIT,
and re-iterated the success of the 1st TCC.
The program and attendance maintained their previous level
(with approximately 125 registered participants).
The conference was held in the new architecturally fascinating Stata Center. |
Starting with the 3rd TCC, the conference has been sponsored by IACR.
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Time: March 4-7, 2006 Location: Columbia U., NYC, NY, USA General chair: Shai Halevi and Tal Rabin Program chair: Shai Halevi and Tal Rabin Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 3876 | The 3rd TCC took place in NYC, and the feeling was that the conference has consolidated. |
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Time: February 21-24, 2007 Location: KNAW, Amsterdam, NL General chair: Ronald Cramer Program chair: Salil Vadhan Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 4392 |
Attendence seems to be growing
(with over 140 registered participants this time)
and a location in Europe seems not to harm it.
Needless to say, it was fun being in charming Amsterdam. |
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Time: March 19-21, 2008 Location: NYU, NYC, NY, USA General chair: Yevgeniy Dodis and Victor Shoup Program chair: Ran Canetti Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 4948 |
Yet another successful conference.
My impression was that the proportion of students was higher this time. In any case, I was impressed with the quality of this set of students. |
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Time: March 15-17, 2009 Location: San Francisco, USA General chair: Dan Boneh Program chair: Omer Reingold Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 5444 |
Attendence (only barely above 100 registerations)
seems to have been hurt by the economic crisis.
See my comments on eight of the talks. |
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Time: February 9-11, 2010 Location: ETH, Zurich, SWISS General chair: Martin Hirt and Ueli Maurer Program chair: Daniele Micciancio Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 5978 |
The perfect local arrangments may set expectations
at a level that will be hard (if not impossible) to meet.
Treats included espresso machines for lunch breaks and a self-prepared fondue dinner. Regarding the program itself, see my notes on ten of the talks. |
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Time: March 28-30, 2011 Location: Brown University, Providence, RI, USA General chair: Anna Lysyanskaya Program chair: Yuval Ishai Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 6597 |
Yet another good conference.
Regarding the program itself, see my notes on fifteen of the talks. |
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Time: March 19-21, 2012 Location: Taormina, Sicily, Italy General chair: Nelly Fazio and Rosario Gennaro Local Arrangements chair: Dario Catalano Program chair: Ronald Cramer Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 7194 |
The charming location did not manage to harm the interest
in the technical sessions.
Regarding the program itself, see my notes on some of the talks. |
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Time: March 4-6, 2013 Location: Tokyo, Japan General chair: Masayuki Abe and Tatsuaki Okamoto Program chair: Amit Sahai Proceedings: Springer, LNCS 7785 |
Dispite some initial fears,
the Far East location did not hurt attendance.
In fact, registration was above 150, with over 100 coming from USA
and Europe (incl. Israel).
Regarding the program itself, see my notes on some of the talks. |
See also the steering committee.