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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.]]) | 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== | ||
* | * 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 | |||
* 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 | |||
* 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. | |||
* | * 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 | ||
* | * 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. | ||
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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'' | ||
* | * 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] | ||
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See also my [ | See also my [https://simson.net/ref/ Presentations Archive]. | ||
==Recent publications== | ==Recent publications== | ||
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==Current projects== | ==Current projects== | ||
;Software and systems: | ; Software and systems: | ||
* | * Cleaning up the [https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit Sleuth Kit Github site] Pull Requests and outstanding Issues. | ||
* | * ''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 on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal. | * Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal. | ||
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) | ||
* [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) | ||
* [ | * [https://forensics.wiki/tags/#digital-forensics-xml Digital Forensics XML] (2005--2012) | ||
* [ | * [https://forensics.wiki/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer (2005--2014) | ||
* [ | * [https://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006) | ||
* [ | * [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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* [[XML Resources]] | * [[XML Resources]] | ||
* [[Student Resources]] | * [[Student Resources]] | ||
* [http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/index.html SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer | * [http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/index.html SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer Security Education] | ||
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* <html><a rel="me" href="https://newsie.social/@xchatty">@xchatty@newsie.social on Mastodon</a> </html> | * <html><a rel="me" href="https://newsie.social/@xchatty">@xchatty@newsie.social on Mastodon</a> </html> | ||
* [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://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://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.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36867821700 Scopus] | |||
* [https://stackexchange.com/users/21138/vy32?tab=accounts StackExchange] | * [https://stackexchange.com/users/21138/vy32?tab=accounts StackExchange] | ||
* [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://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://scholar.google.com/citations?user=87fGQ0AAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar] | ||
* [https://muckrack.com/simsong Muckrack] | * [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] | |||
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* [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] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:46, 13 November 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
- 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. "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
- 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
- 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. ACM TechBrief: Automated Vehicles. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
- Garfinkel, S. How Technology Review got its start, Technology Review, January 4, 2024
- Garfinkel, Simson, Rvi Jain, and Aron Rosenthal, 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.
Recent tutorials and presentations
Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides
- 2024-09-20 Exploring the limits of Differential Privacy
- 2024-06-03 Driving Innovation from the University to Government and the Enterprise: Tricks, Traps and Techniques
- 2023-12-18 Differential Privacy Theory and Practice video
See also my Presentations Archive.
Recent publications
- Garfinkel, Simson. 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, 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
- 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%)
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