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Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's web site.  
Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's personal web site.  
Simson L. Garfinkel is the Chief of the [https://www.census.gov/srd/CDAR/ Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research] at the [https://www.census.gov US Census Bureau]. His current research interests include privacy in big data, cybersecurity and usability. He has previously worked in digital forensics, digital information management, medical imaging, and counter-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''
* 2017-11-12 [http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/ Ron Rivest]'s 2011 Killian Presentation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w704skq5q_8 video] [https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv15z.slides.pdf slides from 2015]
* 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]
* 2017-09-15 [https://youtu.be/G3voy0MuoN0?t=1h54m20 Modernizing the Disclosure Avoidance System for the 2020 Census], presented to the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. [https://www2.census.gov/cac/sac/meetings/2017-09/garfinkel-modernizing-disclosure-avoidance.pdf [slides]]
* 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.
* 2017-09-14 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDW-nM8idgg&feature=youtu.be Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability], a USACM panel at the National Press Club. Also available on [https://www.facebook.com/usacm/videos/1520982961258228 Facebook Live, with the video starting at 10:45].
* 2019-11-19 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-11-19%20The%20Computer%20Book%20talk%20at%20NSF.pdf The Computer Book Talk at NSF]
* 2016-12-14 [http://simson.net/ref/2016/2016-12-14_Cybersecurity.pdf The Cybersecurity Mess]
* 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)]  
* 2015-08-12 [http://simson.net/ref/2015/2015-08-10_hashcarving.pdf Hash Based Carving: Searching media for complete files and fragments with sector hashing and hashdb], DFRWS 2015, Philadelphia, PA.
* 2019-06-18 [https://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-06-18%20Mac%20Forensics%20In%2090%20Minutes.pdf Mac Forensics in 90 Minutes]
* 2014-02-22 [http://simson.net/ref/2014/2014-02-21_RPI_Forensics_Innovation.pdf  Digital Forensics Innovation: Searching A Terabyte of Data in 10 minutes] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
* 2019-05-02 [http://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-05-02%20Garfinkel%20Differential%20Privacy%20Concepts%20(APPROVED).pptx Differential Privacy Concepts]
* 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.
* 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 [[Presentations Archive]]
See also my [https://simson.net/ref/ Presentations Archive].


==Recent publications==  
==Recent publications==  
* Pridgen, Adam, Simson Garfinkel and Dan Dan Wallach, [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2017.HICSS.Present_But_Unreachable.pdf 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. [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2017.HICSS.Present_But_Unreachable_Slides.pdf slides] [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2017.HICSS.Present_But_Unreachable_Plaque.jpg BEST PAPER AWARD]
#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.
* Theofanos, Mary, Simson Garfinkel, and Yee-Yin Choong, Secure and Usable Enterprise Authentication: Lessons from the Field, IEEE Security and Privacy, September/October 2016.
#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.
* Garfinkel, Simson, Michael McCarrin, [http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2015.DFRWS.Hash-Based-Carving.pdf Hash-Based Carving: Searching media for complete files and fragments with sector hashing and hashdb], DFRWS 2015, Philadelphia, PA.
# 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
# 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%)


   
   
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==Current projects==  
==Current projects==  
;Software and systems:
;Software and systems:
* Toying around with Internet of Things things
* bulk_extractor 2.0
* tcpflow 2.0


;Writing:
; Academic Research
* [http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-security/ Computers & Security], Associate Editor
* 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]]
You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]]
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==Completed projects==  
==Completed projects==  
* ''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)
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Category:Digital_Forensics_XML Digital Forensics XML] (2005--2012)
* [https://forensics.wiki/tags/#digital-forensics-xml Digital Forensics XML] (2005--2012)
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer (2005--2014)
* [https://forensics.wiki/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer (2005--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* [http://www.afflib.org AFF], The Advanced Forensic Format (for storing digital evidence)
* [https://forensics.wiki/aff/ AFF], The Advanced Forensic Format (for storing digital evidence)
* [http://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)  
* [http://www.simson.net/notepaper Print your own notepaper]  (2003, but it still works!)
* [https://www.simson.net/notepaper Print your own notepaper]  (2003, updated in 2020!)
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)  
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)  
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/1995/10spring/ 10 Spring Street], Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995)  
* [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://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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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