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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]

Latest revision as of 19:24, 29 October 2025

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 Notable publications

Academic:

  1. Clark, David. D, Simson Garfinkel, and KC Claffy, Differential Privacy, Firm-Level Data, and the Binomial Pathology, IEEE Security and Privacy, January 2025.
  2. 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.
  3. Garfinkel, Simson. "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
  4. Garfinkel, Simson. Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, Winter 2022.
  5. Bowen, Claire McKay and Simson Garfinkel, The Philosophy of Differential Privacy, AMS Notices, November 2021.

History of Computing, Technology and MIT:

  1. Garfinkel, S. “M.I.T., rah, rah, rah. Technology!”, April 22, 2025
  2. Garfinkel, S. MIT prepares for nuclear attack, February 25, 2025
  3. Garfinkel, S. MIT’s (mostly) secret society, December 23, 2024
  4. Garfinkel, S. This is MIT and yes, we have bananas, August 27, 2024
  5. Garfinkel, S. Editor of The Tech becomes president of MIT, Technology Review, June 25, 2024


Current projects

Software and systems
  • Cleaning up the Sleuth Kit Github site Pull Requests and outstanding Issues.
  • Differential Privacy (MIT Press 2025)
  • Plant-Tracer, a computer vision application for plant movement labs.


Teaching
Academic Research

You may also be interested in my Future Projects

Completed projects


Resources For Students

Where to find Simson Garfinkel online