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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.]])  


==News==
==Recent Publications==
* 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.
* 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.
* 2021-10-22 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.
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* 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.
* 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]
* 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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==Differential Privacy Resources==
* [https://dpwiki.org/demo-top-down/dp-demo/sim-top-down/demo.html Demonstration of the US Census Bureau's Top-Down Differential Privacy algorithm]
* [[Differential privacy|More differential privacy resources]].


==Recent tutorials and presentations==
==Recent tutorials and presentations==
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* 2019-05-02 [http://simson.net/ref/2019/2019-05-02%20Garfinkel%20Differential%20Privacy%20Concepts%20(APPROVED).pptx Differential Privacy Concepts]
* 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.
* 2019-01-28 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ksa-e_501w Rice Symposium on Data Privacy], discussing the 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System.
* 2018-10-29 [https://simson.net/ref/2018/2018-10-31%20Cybersecurity%20Research.pdf Cybersecurity research is not making us more secure], University of Pennsylvania CIS Seminar and Events, [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/about-cis/events/ Fall 2018 Colloqium Series], Philadelphia, PA.
* 2018-10-19 [https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/program-management/pmr-materials/10-19-2018/pmr-disclosure-avoidance-2019-10-19.pdf? 2020 Census Disclosure Avoidance], [https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/2020-census/planning-management/program-briefings/2018-10-19-pmr.html 2020 Census Program Management Review – October 19, 2018], US Census Bureau, Suitland, MD
* 2018-10-16 [http://simson.net/ref/2018/2018-10-15%20Garfinkel%20WPES%20Toronto%20Canadav2.pdf Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy], WPES 2018, Toronto, CA
* 2018-03-08 [http://simson.net/ref/2018/2018-03-08%20Challenges%20and%20Experiences%20Adapting%20Differentially%20Private%20Mechanisms%20to%20the%202020%20Census%20(APPROVED).pptx Challenges and Experiences Adapting Differentially Private Mechanisms to the 2020 Census]
* 2018-02-20 [http://simson.net/ref/2018/2018-02-20%20Garfinkel%20Protecting%20Data%20Sources.pdf Protecting Data Sources], presented at the 4th Kavli Conference on Science Journalism, Austin, TX.
* 2018-02-14 [http://simson.net/ref/2018/2018-02-14%20Garfinkel%20Gerogetown%20Modernizing%20the%20DAS%20for%20the%202020%20Census.pdf Modernizing the Disclosure Avoidance System for the 2020 Census], presented at Georgetown University


See also my [[Presentations Archive]] and my [[AWS Tutorial]].
See also my [[Presentations Archive]] and my [[AWS Tutorial]].

Revision as of 06:47, 13 August 2023

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

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Recent tutorials and presentations

Note: talks with the same name may (and frequently do) have different slides

See also my Presentations Archive and my AWS Tutorial.

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
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