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''To people viewing this document for the purpose of introducing me: this bio is meant to be read, not spoken. If you are introducing me in person, please pick one or two statements from below and do not read the entire bio as an introduction. Thank you.'' | ''To people viewing this document for the purpose of introducing me: this bio is meant to be read, not spoken. If you are introducing me in person, please pick one or two statements from below and do not read the entire bio as an introduction. Thank you.'' | ||
Simson L. Garfinkel is a | Simson L. Garfinkel is a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Access Division. Garfinkel's research interests include digital forensics, usable security, data fusion, information policy and terrorism. He holds seven US patents for his computer-related research and has published dozens of research articles on security and digital forensics. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member, as well as a member of the National Association of Science Writers. | ||
Garfinkel is the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing. He is perhaps best known for his book [http://www.databasenation.com/ Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century]. Garfinkel's most successful book, Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold more than 250,000 copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages since the first edition was published in 1991. | Garfinkel is the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing. He is perhaps best known for his book [http://www.databasenation.com/ Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century]. Garfinkel's most successful book, Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold more than 250,000 copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages since the first edition was published in 1991. | ||
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To people viewing this document for the purpose of introducing me: this bio is meant to be read, not spoken. If you are introducing me in person, please pick one or two statements from below and do not read the entire bio as an introduction. Thank you.
Simson L. Garfinkel is a Computer Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Access Division. Garfinkel's research interests include digital forensics, usable security, data fusion, information policy and terrorism. He holds seven US patents for his computer-related research and has published dozens of research articles on security and digital forensics. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member, as well as a member of the National Association of Science Writers.
Garfinkel is the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing. He is perhaps best known for his book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. Garfinkel's most successful book, Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold more than 250,000 copies and been translated into more than a dozen languages since the first edition was published in 1991.
Garfinkel is also a journalist and has written more than a thousand articles about science, technology, and technology policy in the popular press since 1983. He has won numerous national journalism awards, including the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award two years in a row for his "Machine shop" series in CSO magazine. Today he mostly writes for Technology Review Magazine and the technologyreview.com website.
As an entrepreneur, Garfinkel founded five companies between 1989 and 2000. Two of the most successful were Vineyard.NET, which provided Internet service on Martha's Vineyard to more than a thousand customers from 1995 through 2005, and Sandstorm Enterprises, an early developer of commercial computer forensic tools.
Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a Master's of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
