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Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's web site.  
Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's personal web site.  
   
   
Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research interests include computer forensics, the emerging field of usability and security, personal information management, privacy, information policy and 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 and Upcoming Tutorials and Presentations==
==Recent Publications==
* [http://simson.net/ref/2011/2011-07-20%20Working%20with%20Forensic%20Data.pdf 2011-07-20 Working with Computer Forensics Data], presented at SOUPS 2011.
* 2023-10-31 [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whoops-ai-llm-coach-simson-garfinkel-cyfwe WHOOP's AI (LLM) Coach] (LinkedIn).
* [http://simson.net/ref/2011/2011-07-12%20Android%20Forensics.pdf 2011-07-14 Introduction to Computer Forensics and Android Forensics (with an emphasis on computer forensics)]
* 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
* [http://simson.net/ref/2011/2011-06-14%20bulk_extractor.pdf 2011-06-14 bulk_extractor overview], Presented at the Sleuth Kit and Open Source Digital Forensics Conference 2011.
* 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
* [http://simson.net/ref/2011/2011-06-03.pdf Overview of media forensics research]
* 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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See also my [[Presentations Archive]]
==Recent tutorials and presentations==
''Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides''
* 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.


===Working Papers===
See also my [https://simson.net/ref/ Presentations Archive].
Here are working and draft papers relevant to some of the topics in my talks:
* [http://simson.net/ref/2011/dfxml.pdf Digital Forensics XML (working paper)]
* [http://simson.net/ref/2011/bulk_extractor.pdf bulk_extractor (working paper)]


==Recent Publications==  
==Recent publications==  
You may find these articles interesting:
#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.
; Academic:
#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.
* M. I. Cohen, Simson Garfinkel and Bradley Schatz, [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2009.DFRWS.AFF4.pdf Extending the Advanced Forensic Format to accommodate Multiple  Data Sources, Logical Evidence, Arbitrary Information and Forensic Workflow], (accepted to DFRWS 2009)
# 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
* Garfinkel, Farrell, Roussev and Dinolt, [http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2009.DFRWS.Corpora.pdf Bringing Science to Digital Forensics with Standardized Forensic Corpora] (accepted to DFRWS 2009)
# 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%)
* Vassil Roussev and Simson L. Garfinkel, [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2009.SADFE.Fragments.pdf File Fragment Classification—The Case for Specialized Approaches], [http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/sadfe/sadfe09/ Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensics Engineering 2009], Oakland, CA (acceptance rate 30%)  
* [http://www.simson.net/xml_forensics.pdf Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python] [http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/sadfe/sadfe09/ Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensics Engineering 2009], Oakland, CA (acceptance rate 30%)
* [http://www.simson.net/webprint.pdf Finding and Archiving the Internet Footprint], invited paper, presented at the First Digital Lives Research Conference: Personal Digital Archives for the 21st Century, London, England, 9--11 February 2009.  
* Garfinkel, S., Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools The International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, Volume 1, Issue 1, January-March 2009.  


; Journalistic:
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22831/ Privacy Requires Security, Not Abstinence; Protecting an inalienable right in the age of Facebook], ''Technology Review Magazine'', July/August 2009
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22478/?a=f Light, but not Leightweights: Netbooks are more than just cheap laptops], [http://www.technologyreview.com/ Technology Review], May/June 2009.
   
   
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==[[Research|Current Research]]==  
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* [[ADOMEX|Automated Computer Forensics]]
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** [[Sub-Linear Drive Analysis]]
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** [[Real Data Corpus|The Real Data Corpus]]: Building an unclassified research corpora of disk images from around the world.  
 
* [[Human Subject Data and computer security research]]
==Current projects==  
* [[Data Fusion]]
; Software and systems:
* [[Aligning Security and Usability]]  
* 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.
   
   
You can find a complete list of my research on my [[Research]] page.
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==[[Courses|Teaching]]==
; Teaching
Most recently I taught:
* [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


* Fall 2010 - [[CS4920|CS4920 - Automated Computer Forensics]]
; Academic Research
* Summer 2011 - [[CS3636|CS3636 - Data Fusion with Online Information]]
* Article on https://digitalcorpora.org/ for a forensics journal.


You may also be interested in the [[Courses|complete list of courses I have taught.]]  
You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]]
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==Current Projects==  
==Completed projects==  
* Developing Open Source Computer Forensics Software, including [http://afflib.org/software/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], [http://afflib.org/software/fiwalk fiwalk], and the [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Category:Digital_Forensics_XML Digital Forensics XML Project].
* bulk_extractor 2.0
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/ The Forensics Wiki]. I founded this wiki, monitor it, and occasionally contribute.
* tcpflow 2.0
* I regularly contribute to [http://www.technologyreview.com/ MIT's Technology Review].
* ''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)
You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]], especially if you are looking for ideas.
* [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor (2006--2014)
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* [https://forensics.wiki/tags/#digital-forensics-xml Digital Forensics XML] (2005--2012)
==Completed Projects==
* [https://forensics.wiki/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer (2005--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)  
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* [http://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)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/1995/10spring/ 10 Spring Street], Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995)  
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/2001/agenda/ Agenda], an early conference scheduling app for PalmOS. (2001)  
* [http://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!)
* [http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2003.DGO.GarfinkelCrypto.pdf Stream], an opportunistic encryption proxy. (2003)
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [http://www.simson.net/notepaper Print your own notepaper]  (2003, but it still works!)
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [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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==Useful Resources==  
==Resources For Students==  
* [[Current Toolset]] -- The tools that I use in my research  
* [[Current Toolset]] -- The tools that I use in my research  
* [[Open Source Computer Science Books]] -- A good list
* [[Open Source Computer Science Books]] -- A good list
* [[How to search the computer science literature]]
* [[Mac Resources]]  
* [[Mac Resources]]  
* [[LaTeX Resources]]  
* [[LaTeX Resources]]  
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* [[Windows Resources]]  
* [[Windows Resources]]  
* [[XML Resources]]  
* [[XML Resources]]  
* [[Student Resources]]
* [http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/seed/index.html SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer Security Education]
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==Where to find me online==  
==Where to find Simson Garfinkel online==  
* [http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100415667&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=18863541&CFTOKEN=44283461 ACM Digital Library Author Profile]  
* [https://twitter.com/xchatty @xchatty] on Twitter
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Garfinkel:Simson_L=.html DBLP Profile]
* <html><a rel="me" href="https://newsie.social/@xchatty">@xchatty@newsie.social on Mastodon</a> </html>
* [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?last=Garfinkel&first=Simson LinkedIn Profile]  
* [https://github.com/simsong simsong] on GitHub
* [http://www.citeulike.org/search/all?q=simson+garfinkel Citeulike Profile]  
* [https://www.technologyreview.com/search.aspx?s=simson+garfinkel Articles in Technology Review]
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/User:Simsong ForensicsWiki User Page]  
* [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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simson_Garfinkel Wikipedia Article on Simson Garfinkel]  
* [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://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://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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==Other sites of interest==
* http://ex.nitroba.org --- All that's left of Deus Ex Machina Software now that we sold the ex.com domain.
* http://dmr.nitroba.org --- Donald M. Rosenberg''s online site (his papers are at the Michigan State University Archives).
* http://realworlddocs.com --- My father''s newly published book on document drafting.
* http://forensicwiki.org --- Wiki for computer forensics
   
   
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Latest revision as of 08:13, 10 September 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
  • 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
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