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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==
''None at the moment! I'm actually getting research done!''
* 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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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.
#Garfinkel, S. [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2012.DI.dfxml.pdf Digital Forensics XML and the DFXML toolset], Digital Investigation, 2012.  
# 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, S., and Dinolt, G. Operations with Degraded Security. IEEE Security & Privacy, pages 18–23, November/December 2011
# 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%)
# Beverly, Robert, Simson Garfinkel and Greg Cardwell, [http://simson.net/clips/academic/2011.DFRWS.ipcarving.pdf "Forensic Carving of Network Packets and Associated Data Structures"], DFRWS 2011, Aug. 1-3, 2011, New Orleans, LA BEST PAPER AWARD (Acceptance rate: 23%, 14/62)


; Journalistic:
* [http://www.technologyreview.com/web/39354/ Seven Ways to get yourself hacked],  ''Technology Review'', December 15, 2011.
   
   
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==[[Research|Current Research]]==
* [[ADOMEX|Automated Computer Forensics]]
** [[Sub-Linear Drive Analysis]]
** [[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]]
* [[Data Fusion]]
* [[Aligning Security and Usability]]
You can find a complete list of my research on my [[Research]] page.
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==[[Courses|Teaching]]==
Most recently I taught:
* Fall 2010 - [[CS4920|CS4920 - Automated Computer Forensics]]
* Summer 2011 - [[CS3636|CS3636 - Data Fusion with Online Information]]
You may also be interested in the [[Courses|complete list of courses I have taught.]]
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==Current Projects==  
==Current projects==  
Software and systems:
;Software and systems:
* [https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow tcpflow], a TCP/IP session reassembler.
* bulk_extractor 2.0
* [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor
* tcpflow 2.0
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Category:Digital_Forensics_XML Digital Forensics XML].
* [http://www.forensicswiki.org/ The Forensics Wiki]. I founded this wiki, monitor it, and occasionally contribute.  


Writing:
; Academic Research
* I regularly contribute to [http://www.technologyreview.com/ MIT's Technology Review].
* Article about security research and AI
* I am an associate editor at [http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-security/ Computers & Security]
* 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.


I actively supervise:
You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]]
* [https://github.com/ajnelson/regxml_extractor regxml_extractor], a tool for converting Windows Registry files to XML and SQLite databases.
 
You may also be interested in my [[Future Projects]], especially if you are looking for ideas.
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==Completed Projects==  
==Completed projects==  
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld NeXTWORLD Magazine] (1991--1993)  
* ''Law and Policy for the Quantum Age'', Hoofnagle & Garfinkel, (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* [https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow tcpflow], a TCP/IP session reassembler (2006--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/1995/10spring/ 10 Spring Street], Vineyard Haven, Virtual Tour (1995)  
* [https://github.com/simsong/bulk_extractor bulk_extractor], a high-speed feature extractor (2006--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/ref/2001/agenda/ Agenda], an early conference scheduling app for PalmOS. (2001)  
* [https://forensics.wiki/tags/#digital-forensics-xml Digital Forensics XML] (2005--2012)
* [http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2003.DGO.GarfinkelCrypto.pdf Stream], an opportunistic encryption proxy. (2003)
* [https://forensics.wiki/ The Forensics Wiki], founder and maintainer (2005--2014)
* [http://www.simson.net/notepaper Print your own notepaper]  (2003, but it still works!)
* [https://www.simson.net/ref/sbook5 SBook5], a free-format address book for MacOS. (1991--2006)  
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bibtex Updated MediaWiki BibText Extension] (2007)
* [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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==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://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://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 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