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* Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal. | * Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal. | ||
* Article about the new bulk_extractor and why it's so much better. | * Article about the new bulk_extractor and why it's so much better. | ||
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* ''Law and Policy for the Quantum Age'', Hoofnagle & Garfinkel, (Cambridge University Press, 2021) | |||
* [https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow tcpflow], a TCP/IP session reassembler (2006--2014) | * [https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow tcpflow], a TCP/IP session reassembler (2006--2014) | ||
* [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor (2006--2014) | * [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor (2006--2014) | ||
Revision as of 09:39, 16 June 2022
Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's personal web site.
Simson L. Garfinkel is the Senior Data Scientist in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He is also a part-time faculty member at George Washington University in Washington DC, a guest researcher at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and an affiliate of both Georgetown University and George Mason University. He serves on the Association for Computing Machinery's U.S. Technology and Policy Committee, and on its Ethics and Plagiarism Committee. He is also a science journalist who has published hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines, and 17 books. His research interests broadly include data science ethics, digital forensics, personal information management, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. (Read full bio.)
News
- 2022-01-24 Differential Privacy and the 2020 US Census published by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Case Studies series.
- 2021-10-22 AMS Notices has published The Philosophy of Differential Privacy, which I wrote with Claire McKay Bowen.
- 2021-04-13 I will be teaching GWU DATS 6450 — Data Science Ethics this fall.
- 2020-08-28 Marian S. Garfinkel (1932-2020)
- 2020-01-23 Simson's Notepaper App has been upgraded! Print your own notepaper! And new features are on the way, including integration with Apple Calendar.
- 2019-11-19 The Computer Book Talk at NSF
Differential Privacy Resources
- Demonstration of the US Census Bureau's Top-Down Differential Privacy algorithm
- More differential privacy resources.
Recent tutorials and presentations
Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides
- 2020-06-15 Using Apache Spark and Differential Privacy for Protecting the Privacy of the 2020 Census Respondents, at the Spark+AI virtual conference.
- 2019-11-19 The Computer Book Talk at NSF
- 2019-07-16 PETS Keynote Address - Deploying Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (slides) (pdf)
- 2019-06-18 Mac Forensics in 90 Minutes
- 2019-05-02 Differential Privacy Concepts
- 2019-01-28 Rice Symposium on Data Privacy, discussing the 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System.
- 2018-10-29 Cybersecurity research is not making us more secure, University of Pennsylvania CIS Seminar and Events, Fall 2018 Colloqium Series, Philadelphia, PA.
- 2018-10-19 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance, 2020 Census Program Management Review – October 19, 2018, US Census Bureau, Suitland, MD
- 2018-10-16 Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy, WPES 2018, Toronto, CA
- 2018-03-08 Challenges and Experiences Adapting Differentially Private Mechanisms to the 2020 Census
- 2018-02-20 Protecting Data Sources, presented at the 4th Kavli Conference on Science Journalism, Austin, TX.
- 2018-02-14 Modernizing the Disclosure Avoidance System for the 2020 Census, presented at Georgetown University
See also my Presentations Archive and my AWS Tutorial.
Recent publications
- Pridgen, Adam, Simson Garfinkel and Dan Dan Wallach, Present but Unreachable, reducing persistent latent secrets in HotSpot JVM, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-50), Jan 4-7, 2017, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii. slides BEST PAPER AWARD
- Theofanos, Mary, Simson Garfinkel, and Yee-Yin Choong, Secure and Usable Enterprise Authentication: Lessons from the Field, IEEE Security and Privacy, September/October 2016.
- Garfinkel, Simson, Michael McCarrin, Hash-Based Carving: Searching media for complete files and fragments with sector hashing and hashdb, DFRWS 2015, Philadelphia, PA.
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