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2026-08-11T17:47:05Z

Remove obsolete Amazon Listmania link

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	* [https://muckrack.com/simsong Muckrack]		* [https://muckrack.com/simsong Muckrack]
	* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simson_Garfinkel Wikipedia Article on Simson Garfinkel]		* [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://orcid.org/ ORCID]: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1294-2831
	* [https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/simson-garfinkel/ Mendeley]		* [https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/simson-garfinkel/ Mendeley]

Simson: /* Completed projects */

2026-04-28T19:02:31Z

Completed projects

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	* [https://forensics.wiki/aff/ AFF], The Advanced Forensic Format (for storing digital evidence)		* [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/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://github.com/simsong/notepaper Print your own notepaper] (2003, updated in 2020!)
	* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)		* [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/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)

Simson at 03:24, 30 October 2025

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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''
			* 2025-10-30 [https://simson.net/ref/2025/2025-10-30%20CSS25%20AI%20and%20Security%20Keynote.pdf Five Challenge Problems for AI and Cybersecurity] [https://www.iwsec.org/css/2025/ Computer Security Symposium 2025 in Okayama] [https://simson.net/ref/2025/2025-10-30%20CSS25%20AI%20and%20Security%20Keynote.key keynote] [https://simson.net/ref/2025/2025-10-30%20CSS25%20AI%20and%20Security%20Keynote.pptx pptx]
	* 2024-09-20 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-09-20%20Exploring%20the%20Limits%20of%20DP.pdf Exploring the limits of Differential Privacy]		* 2024-09-20 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-09-20%20Exploring%20the%20Limits%20of%20DP.pdf Exploring the limits of Differential Privacy]
	* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]		* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]

Simson: /* Where to find Simson Garfinkel online */

2025-07-18T13:56:53Z

Where to find Simson Garfinkel online

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	* [https://github.com/simsong simsong] on GitHub		* [https://github.com/simsong simsong] on GitHub
	* [https://www.technologyreview.com/search.aspx?s=simson+garfinkel Articles in Technology Review]		* [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]~~]		* [https://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100415667&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=18863541&CFTOKEN=44283461 ACM Digital Library Author Profile]
	* [https://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Garfinkel:Simson_L=.html DBLP Profile]		* [https://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Garfinkel:Simson_L=.html DBLP Profile]
	* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?last=Garfinkel&first=Simson LinkedIn Profile]		* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?last=Garfinkel&first=Simson LinkedIn Profile]

Simson: /* Recent publications */

2025-06-26T11:40:43Z

Recent publications

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

	==Recent publications==		==Recent Notable publications==
			Academic:
			# Clark, David. D, Simson Garfinkel, and KC Claffy, [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10680197 Differential Privacy, Firm-Level Data, and the Binomial Pathology], IEEE Security and Privacy, January 2025.
			# Garfinkel, Simson. 2024. “Complete Delete: In Practice, Clicking ‘Delete’ Rarely Deletes. Should It?” MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/2c646de5.26e95ae4.
			# Garfinkel, Simson. [https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2023-0018 "Comment to Mulalidhar and Domingo-Ferrer (2023) – Legacy Statistical Disclosure Limitation Techniques Were Not An Option for the 2020 US Census of Population And Housing"], Journal of Official Statistics, vol.39, no.3, 2023, pp.399-410. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2023-0018
	#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. [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.
	#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.		#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.
	# ~~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~~		History of Computing, Technology and MIT:
	# ~~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%)~~		# Garfinkel, S. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/22/1114502/m-i-t-rah-rah-rah-technology/ “M.I.T., rah, rah, rah. Technology!”], April 22, 2025
			# Garfinkel, S. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111234/mit-prepares-for-nuclear-attack/ MIT prepares for nuclear attack], February 25, 2025
			# Garfinkel, S. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/23/1107304/mits-mostly-secret-society/ MIT’s (mostly) secret society], December 23, 2024
			# Garfinkel, S. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/27/1095666/this-is-mit-and-yes-we-have-bananas/ This is MIT and yes, we have bananas], August 27, 2024
			# Garfinkel, S. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/25/1093149/editor-of-the-tech-becomes-president-of-mit/ Editor of The Tech becomes president of MIT], Technology Review, June 25, 2024

Simson: /* Current projects */

2024-11-13T19:46:46Z

Current projects

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	; Software and systems:		; Software and systems:
	* Cleaning up the [https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit Sleuth Kit Github site] Pull Requests and outstanding Issues.		* Cleaning up the [https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit Sleuth Kit Github site] Pull Requests and outstanding Issues.
	* ~~_Differential Privacy_~~ (MIT Press 2025)		* ''Differential Privacy'' (MIT Press 2025)
	* [https://github.com/Plant-Tracer/webapp/ Plant-Tracer], a computer vision application for plant movement labs.		* [https://github.com/Plant-Tracer/webapp/ Plant-Tracer], a computer vision application for plant movement labs.

Simson: /* Recent tutorials and presentations */

2024-11-13T19:46:21Z

Recent tutorials and presentations

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	* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]		* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]
	* 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]		* 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]
	* 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.
	* 2019-11-19 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-11-19%20The%20Computer%20Book%20talk%20at%20NSF.pdf The Computer Book Talk at NSF]
	* 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)]
	* 2019-06-18 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-06-18%20Mac%20Forensics%20In%2090%20Minutes.pdf Mac Forensics in 90 Minutes]
	* 2019-05-02 [http://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-05-02%20Garfinkel%20Differential%20Privacy%20Concepts%20(APPROVED).pptx Differential Privacy Concepts]
	* 2019-01-28 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ksa-e_501w Rice Symposium on Data Privacy], discussing the 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System.

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

Simson: /* Recent tutorials and presentations */

2024-11-13T19:46:03Z

Recent tutorials and presentations

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	''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''
	* 2024-09-20 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-09-20%20Exploring%20the%20Limits%20of%20DP.pdf Exploring the limits of Differential Privacy]		* 2024-09-20 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-09-20%20Exploring%20the%20Limits%20of%20DP.pdf Exploring the limits of Differential Privacy]
	* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University		* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]
	to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]
	* 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]		* 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]
	* 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.		* 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.

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	==Recent Publications==		==Recent Publications==
	* ~~2023-10-31 [~~https://~~www~~.~~linkedin~~.~~com~~/~~pulse/whoops-ai-llm-coach-simson-garfinkel-cyfwe WHOOP's AI (LLM) Coach] (LinkedIn)~~.		* Garfinkel, Simson. 2024. “Complete Delete: In Practice, Clicking ‘Delete’ Rarely Deletes. Should It?” MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/2c646de5.26e95ae4.
	* ~~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		* Garfinkel, Simson. [https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2023-0018 "Comment to Mulalidhar and Domingo-Ferrer (2023) – Legacy Statistical Disclosure Limitation Techniques Were Not An Option for the 2020 US Census of Population And Housing"], Journal of Official Statistics, vol.39, no.3, 2023, pp.399-410. https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2023-0018
	* ~~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~~		* Abowd, J., Ashmead, R., Cumings-Menon, R., Garfinkel, S., Heineck, M., Heiss, C., Johns, R., Kifer, D., Leclerc, P., Machanavajjhala, A., Moran, B., Sexton, W., Spence, M., & Zhuravlev, P. (2022). The 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance System TopDown Algorithm. Harvard Data Science Review, (Special Issue 2). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.529e3cb9
	* ~~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~~.		* Larry Medsker, Philip Koopman, Homa Alemzadeh, Simson Garfinkel, Andrew Grosso, Carl Landwehr, Sam Liles, John Murray, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, William Widen, and Alec Yasinsac. 2024. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654812 ACM TechBrief: Automated Vehicles]. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
	* ~~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.~~		* Garfinkel, S. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/04/1084227/how-technology-review-got-its-start/ How Technology Review got its start], Technology Review, January 4, 2024
	* 2021-04-~~13 I will be teaching GWU [[DATS 6450 — Data Science Ethics]] this fall.~~		* Garfinkel, Simson, Rvi Jain, and Aron Rosenthal, [https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/public-policy/final-ustpc-digital-twin-comments-to-ostp_nitrd.pdf Comments in response to NITRD Request for Information for the Creation of a National Digital Twins R&D Strategy Plan], Association for Computing Machinery US Technology Policy Committee, July 18, 2024.
	* 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~~]
	.

	==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''
			* 2024-09-20 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-09-20%20Exploring%20the%20Limits%20of%20DP.pdf Exploring the limits of Differential Privacy]
			* 2024-06-03 [https://simson.net/ref/2024/2024-06-03%20Harvard%20Innovation.pdf Driving Innovation from the University
			to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques]
	* 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]		* 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]
	* 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.		* 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.

Simson at 15:13, 10 September 2024

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	==Current projects==		==Current projects==
	;Software and systems:		; Software and systems:
	* ~~bulk_extractor 2~~.0		* Cleaning up the [https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit Sleuth Kit Github site] Pull Requests and outstanding Issues.
	* ~~tcpflow 2~~.0		* _Differential Privacy_ (MIT Press 2025)
			* [https://github.com/Plant-Tracer/webapp/ Plant-Tracer], a computer vision application for plant movement labs.


			; Teaching
			* [https://firstyearseminarprogram.college.harvard.edu/directory/defense-against-the-dark-arts-cybersecurity-edition/ Co-Teaching Defense of the Dark Arts (Cybersecurity Edition)] at Harvard.
			* [https://scholar.harvard.edu/mikesmith/classes/ac221-critical-thinking-data-science Co-Teaching AC221 Critical Thinking in Data Science] at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
			* Co-Teaching CSCI E-11, Frontiers in Computer Science at Harvard Extension

	; Academic Research		; 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 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==
			* bulk_extractor 2.0
			* tcpflow 2.0
	* ''Law and Policy for the Quantum Age'', Hoofnagle & Garfinkel, (Cambridge University Press, 2021)		* ''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)
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	* [[XML Resources]]		* [[XML Resources]]
	* [[Student Resources]]		* [[Student Resources]]
	* [http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/index.html SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer ~~SEcurity EDucation~~]		* [http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/index.html SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer Security Education]
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