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Welcome to Simson Garfinkel's web site.

Recent Publications

You may find these articles interesting:

• Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python (in submission).
• 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.

Current Research

• Sub-Linear Drive Analysis
• The Drives Project: Building an unclassified research corpora of disk images from around the world.
• Automated Document and Media Exploitation
• Human Subject Data and computer security research
• Aligning Security and Usability
• Data Fusion

You can find a complete list of my research on my Research page.

Current Teaching

• Summer 2009 - CS3636 - Data Fusion with Online Information
• Fall 2009 - CS4920 - Automated Document and Media Exploitation

You can find a complete list of the courses that I have taught on my Courses page.

Useful Resources

• My Students (the most valuable resources that I have!)
• LaTeX Resources
• How to search the computer science literature

Contact Simson Garfinkel

Where to find me online

• ACM Digital Library Author Profile

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