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Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's web site.  
Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's personal web site.  
Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research interests include digital forensics; digital artifact management, with special attention to the curation of "born digital" artifacts; privacy; the use of human subjects in computer security research;  usable security, and terrorism.  ([[Bio|Read full bio.]])
   
   
Simson L. Garfinkel 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.  ([[Bio|Read full bio.]])
==Recent Publications==
* 2023-10-31 [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whoops-ai-llm-coach-simson-garfinkel-cyfwe WHOOP's AI (LLM) Coach] (LinkedIn).
* 2023-08-01 Simson Garfinkel, Jon Stewart, [https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/8/274937-sharpening-your-tools/fulltext Sharpening Your Tools: Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s], Communications of the ACM, August 2023
* 2023-01-01 Simson Garfinkel and Eugene H. Spafford. 2023. In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 1931-2022, Commun. ACM 65, 10 (Jan 2023), https://doi.org/10.1145/3572995
* 2022-01-24 [https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/differential-privacy-2020-us-census/release/1 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 [https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202110/rnoti-p1727.pdf 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 [https://simson.net/notepaper 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 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-11-19%20The%20Computer%20Book%20talk%20at%20NSF.pdf The Computer Book Talk at NSF]
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==Recent tutorials and presentations==
==Recent tutorials and presentations==
''Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides''
''Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides''
* 2014-02-18 [http://simson.net/ref/2014/2014-02-18_Sniff.pdf Can we Sniff [Wi-Fi]? Implications of Joffe v. Google for security researchers and educators], New York University, NY.
* 2023-12-18 [https://simson.net/ref/2023/2023-12-18%20DP%20Theory%20and%20Practice.pdf Differential Privacy Theory and Practice] [https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/seminars/archive/video/2023-12-18-t206935.html video]
* 2013-12-16 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-12-16_Lessons_UMD.pdf Lessons learned managing a 60TB digital evidence corpus and writing digital forensics tools.], University of Maryland, College Park (iSchool).
* 2020-06-15 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=bxU6yHNUVns Using Apache Spark and Differential Privacy for Protecting the Privacy of the 2020 Census Respondents], at the Spark+AI virtual conference.
* 2013-12-06 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-12-06_UMBC.pdf Finding privacy leaks and stolen data with bulk data analysis and optimistic decoding], University of Maryland Baltimore County.
* 2019-11-19 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-11-19%20The%20Computer%20Book%20talk%20at%20NSF.pdf The Computer Book Talk at NSF]
* 2013-12-05 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-12-05_tcpflow-and-BE-update.pdf tcpflow and bulk_extractor update]
* 2019-07-16 [https://petsymposium.org/2019/program.php PETS Keynote Address - Deploying Differential Privacy for the 2020 Census of Population and Housing] [http://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-07-16%20Deploying%20Differential%20Privacy%20for%20the%202020%20Census.pptx (slides)] [http://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-07-16%20Deploying%20Differential%20Privacy%20for%20the%202020%20Census.pdf (pdf)]
* 2013-11-13 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-11-13_IEEE_HST.pdf Finding threatening insiders with lightweight media forensics, IEEE HST 2013] [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2013.IEEE-HST.Insider.pdf paper]
* 2019-06-18 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-06-18%20Mac%20Forensics%20In%2090%20Minutes.pdf Mac Forensics in 90 Minutes]
* 2013-11-05 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-11-05_VizSec.pdf Forensic Visualization with Open Source Tools], Open Source Forensics Conference.
* 2019-05-02 [http://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-05-02%20Garfinkel%20Differential%20Privacy%20Concepts%20(APPROVED).pptx Differential Privacy Concepts]
* 2013-10-16 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-10-16_UMD.pdf Finding privacy leaks and stolen data with bulk data analysis and optimistic decoding], University of Maryland, College Park (CS Dept.)
* 2019-01-28 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ksa-e_501w Rice Symposium on Data Privacy], discussing the 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System.
* 2013-10-10 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-10-08_Overview.pdf Digital Forensics Overview], Bryn Mawr College
* 2013-05-17 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-05-16_Cybersecurity.pdf The Cybersecurity Mess], MIT Club of DC
* 2013-02-22 [http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-02-20_AAFS.pdf Bulk Data Analysis With Optimistic Decompression].
* 2013-01-07 [http://meetup.dcacm.org/events/88009552/?eventId=88009552&action=detail  Digital Forensics Innovation: Searching A Terabyte of Data in 10 minutes] (DCACM, Washington DC)


See also my [[Presentations Archive]]
See also my [https://simson.net/ref/ Presentations Archive].


==Recent publications==  
==Recent publications==  
; Academic:
#Garfinkel, Simson. [https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/differential-privacy-2020-us-census/release/1 Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census], MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, Winter 2022.
* Garfinkel, Simson, Nicole Beebe, Lishu Liu, and Michele Maasberg, [http://simson.net:simson.net/clips/academic/2013.IEEE-HST.Insider.pdf Detecting Threatening Insiders with Lightweight Media Forensics], IEEE Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 2013), Nov 12-14, Waltham, MA. 2013
#Bowen, Claire McKay and Simson Garfinkel, [https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202110/rnoti-p1727.pdf The Philosophy of Differential Privacy], AMS Notices, November 2021.
* Rowe, Neil, Schwamm, Riqui, Garfinkel, Simson. Language Translation for File Paths, DFRWS 2013, Aug 4-7, 2013. Monterey, CA. BEST PAPER AWARD.
# Abowd, J. M., Ashmead, R., Cumings-Menon, R., Garfinkel, S., Kifer, D., Leclerc, P., Sexton, W., Simpson, A., Task, C., & Zhuravlev, P. (2021). An uncertainty principle is a price of privacy-preserving microdata. In M. Ranzato, A. Beygelzimer, Y. Dauphin, P. Liang, & J. W. Vaughan (Eds.), Advances in neural information processing systems (pp. 11883– 11895). Curran Associates, Inc. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021
* Garfinkel, Simson L., [http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2013.AmericanScientist.pdf Digital Forensics], ''American Scientist'', September-October 2013
# Simson L. Garfinkel and Philip Leclerc. 2020. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411497.3420211 Randomness Concerns when Deploying Differential Privacy.] In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 73–86. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411497.3420211 (Acceptance rate 44%)
* Young J., Foster, K., Garfinkel, S., and Fairbanks, K., [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2012.IEEE.SectorHashing.pdf Distinct Sector Hashes for Target File Detection], ''IEEE Computer'', December 2012


; Journalistic:
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/review/511116/windows-8-design-over-usability/ Windows 8: Design over Usability], ''Technology Review'', February 20, 2013
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506521/how-to-delete-regrettable-posts-from-the-internet/ How to Delete Regrettable Posts from the Internet], ''Technology Review,'' October 30, 2012.
   
   
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==Current projects==  
==Current projects==  
;Software and systems:
;Software and systems:
* [https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow tcpflow], a TCP/IP session reassembler
* bulk_extractor 2.0
* [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor
* tcpflow 2.0
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Category:Digital_Forensics_XML Digital Forensics XML]
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer


;Writing:
; Academic Research
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/ MIT Technology Review], ''guest contributor''
* Article about security research and AI
* [http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-security/ Computers & Security], Associate Editor
* New approach to provenance: the Data Vintaging System (new wine in old bottles?)
* [[DUE-1140938|Technical Privacy Auditing with computer forensics tools]]
* New Data Science Ethics assignment
* Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal.
* Article about the new bulk_extractor and why it's so much better.


You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]]
You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]]
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==Completed projects==  
==Completed projects==  
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* ''Law and Policy for the Quantum Age'', Hoofnagle & Garfinkel, (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
* [http://www.afflib.org AFF], The Advanced Forensic Format (for storing digital evidence)
* [https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow tcpflow], a TCP/IP session reassembler (2006--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/2001/agenda/ Agenda], an early conference scheduling app for PalmOS. (2001)  
* [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor (2006--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/notepaper Print your own notepaper]  (2003, but it still works!)
* [https://forensics.wiki/tags/#digital-forensics-xml Digital Forensics XML] (2005--2012)
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [https://forensics.wiki/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer (2005--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)  
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/1995/10spring/ 10 Spring Street], Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995)  
* [https://forensics.wiki/aff/ AFF], The Advanced Forensic Format (for storing digital evidence)
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/2001/agenda/ Agenda], an early conference scheduling app for PalmOS. (2001)  
* [https://www.simson.net/notepaper Print your own notepaper]  (2003, updated in 2020!)
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)  
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/1995/10spring/ 10 Spring Street], Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995)  
* [[docx_steg]] Tools for hiding information in docx files and printing their contents (2008)
* [[docx_steg]] Tools for hiding information in docx files and printing their contents (2008)
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==Where to find me online==  
==Where to find Simson Garfinkel online==  
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/search.aspx?s=simson+garfinkel Articles in Technology Review]
* [https://twitter.com/xchatty @xchatty] on Twitter
* [http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100415667&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=18863541&CFTOKEN=44283461 ACM Digital Library Author Profile]  Or just click: [[Official ACM Publications]]
* <html><a rel="me" href="https://newsie.social/@xchatty">@xchatty@newsie.social on Mastodon</a> </html>
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Garfinkel:Simson_L=.html DBLP Profile]
* [https://github.com/simsong simsong] on GitHub
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?last=Garfinkel&first=Simson LinkedIn Profile]  
* [https://www.technologyreview.com/search.aspx?s=simson+garfinkel Articles in Technology Review]
 
* [https://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100415667&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=18863541&CFTOKEN=44283461 ACM Digital Library Author Profile]  Or just click: [[Official ACM Publications]]
* [http://www.citeulike.org/search/all?q=simson+garfinkel Citeulike Profile]  
* [https://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Garfinkel:Simson_L=.html DBLP Profile]
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/User:Simsong ForensicsWiki User Page]  
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?last=Garfinkel&first=Simson LinkedIn Profile]  
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simson_Garfinkel Wikipedia Article on Simson Garfinkel]  
* [https://stackexchange.com/users/21138/vy32?tab=accounts StackExchange]
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A1GDABXA5Z7BLQ Amazon.com Listmania! Lists]
* [https://www.csauthors.net/simson-l-garfinkel/ csauthors.net] (Both my [https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/miscellaneous.html Erdös number]  and my [https://www.csauthors.net/distance/simson-l-garfinkel/edsger-w-dijkstra Dijkstra numbers] are three.)
* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=87fGQ0AAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
* [https://muckrack.com/simsong Muckrack]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simson_Garfinkel Wikipedia Article on Simson Garfinkel]  
* [https://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A1GDABXA5Z7BLQ Amazon.com Listmania! Lists]
* [https://orcid.org/ ORCID]: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1294-2831
* [https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/simson-garfinkel/ Mendeley]
* BibTeX: [http://simson.net/ref/bibtex/garfinkel.bib Garfinkel Academic] [http://simson.net/ref/bibtex/garfinkel_cso.bib CSO Magazine] [http://simson.net/ref/bibtex/garfinkel_globe.bib Boston Globe] [http://simson.net/ref/bibtex/garfinkel_nextworld.bib NeXTWORLD] [http://simson.net/ref/bibtex/garfinkel_tr.bib Technology Review] [http://simson.net/ref/bibtex/garfinkel_other.bib Other]
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Latest revision as of 07:44, 8 January 2024

Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's personal web site.

Simson L. Garfinkel 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.)

Recent Publications

.

Recent tutorials and presentations

Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides

See also my Presentations Archive.

Recent publications

  1. Garfinkel, Simson. Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, Winter 2022.
  2. Bowen, Claire McKay and Simson Garfinkel, The Philosophy of Differential Privacy, AMS Notices, November 2021.
  3. Abowd, J. M., Ashmead, R., Cumings-Menon, R., Garfinkel, S., Kifer, D., Leclerc, P., Sexton, W., Simpson, A., Task, C., & Zhuravlev, P. (2021). An uncertainty principle is a price of privacy-preserving microdata. In M. Ranzato, A. Beygelzimer, Y. Dauphin, P. Liang, & J. W. Vaughan (Eds.), Advances in neural information processing systems (pp. 11883– 11895). Curran Associates, Inc. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021
  4. Simson L. Garfinkel and Philip Leclerc. 2020. Randomness Concerns when Deploying Differential Privacy. In Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 73–86. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411497.3420211 (Acceptance rate 44%)


Current projects

Software and systems
  • bulk_extractor 2.0
  • tcpflow 2.0
Academic Research
  • Article about security research and AI
  • New approach to provenance: the Data Vintaging System (new wine in old bottles?)
  • New Data Science Ethics assignment
  • Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal.
  • Article about the new bulk_extractor and why it's so much better.

You may also be interested in my Future Projects

Completed projects


Resources For Students

Where to find Simson Garfinkel online
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