Meredith L. Patterson

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Meredith L. Patterson
DIYbio
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(m. 2006; died 2011)​

Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977

software developer, and a leading figure[3] in the biopunk
movement.

Raised in Houston, she pursued an education in linguistics and computer science, earning a Master's degree in linguistics and a PhD in computer science from the University of Iowa. Patterson's early career involved diverse roles like website design, technical writing, teaching math, and restaurant criticism for the Houston Press.

Her contributions in computer science include breakthroughs in

civil rights, and programming languages
.

Early life

Patterson lived in and around Houston for 24 years before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, to pursue her Master's degree in linguistics and PhD in computer science.[4] Patterson attended Kingwood High School from 1990 to 1994.[5] She supported herself working as a website designer, technical writer, math teacher, and restaurant critic for the Houston Press.[6] She served as the treasurer of the Mars Society Houston branch[7] in 1999. That same year, at age 22, she traveled above the Arctic Circle as a NASA correspondent for a Mars simulation mission.[8]

Computer science and academic career

Patterson is known for her work in

validation technique for stopping SQL injection attacks at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.[9]

She has integrated her

Osogato, which couples the datamining database with acoustic feature extractors allowing users to create playlists from their own music collections and find new music based on the properties of the music they provide as sample inputs. Osogato was launched at SuperHappyDevHouse.[11]

Prior to founding Osogato, Patterson worked for Mu Security (now

Mu Dynamics). Before that, she was a PhD student at the University of Iowa. She did her undergrad work in linguistics at the University of Houston and received her master's degree in linguistics from the University of Iowa.[12]

Patterson has contributed to multiple

Summer of Code project Firekeeper,[18] which her husband, Len Sassaman
, mentored.

In 2009 at BlackHat, Dan Kaminsky presented joint work with Patterson and Sassaman, revealing pervasive flaws in the Internet's certificate authority infrastructure. Their work revealed that existing web browsers could be fooled into accepting fraudulent X.509 certificates.[19]

Writing career

As a science fiction author, Patterson has published numerous short stories in such magazines as

The Children of Cthulhu and is credited with contributing to the Steve Jackson Games game GURPS Villains. Her poetry has been influenced by her scientific research; for example, her poem "Leaving Devon Island"[20] is in reference to the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island, Nunavut
, Canada.

Blogger

Patterson frequently discusses such issues as

BoingBoing.[26]

In spring of 2008, she published a paper with

OLPC (One Laptop per Child) computer.[29]

Personal

Sassaman slips a blue cable-tie ring on Pattersons' finger

A two-time

power couple.[30]
They were together until Sassaman's death in 2011.

Patterson, who was diagnosed with

Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology over the Ada Initiative on these grounds.[32]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Radio Free Meredith". Maradydd.livejournal.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  2. ^ Presentations Archived August 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "h+ Magazine Summer 2009 Issue". Hplusmagazine.com. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  4. ^ "Meredith L. Patterson, M.A., M.S." Lifeboat Foundation. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  5. ^ Belgium. "Radio Free Meredith". Maradydd.livejournal.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  6. ^ Patterson, Meredith (January 15, 1998). "Made in Houston". Houston Press. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  7. ^ "The Mars Society of Houston". Marshouston.org. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  8. ^ Bio printed along with a story in the Fortean Bureau Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Stopping SQL Injection Attacks" (PDF). Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  10. ^ "O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference presentation". Conferences.oreillynet.com. Archived from the original on October 9, 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  11. ^ "SHDH presentation". Superhappydevhouse.org. October 22, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  12. ^ "Personal bio". Thesmartpolitenerd.com. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  13. ^ SciTools Presentation Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Klein". Sourceforge.net. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  15. ^ "QBE". Pgfoundry.org. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  16. ^ PostgreSQL Summit Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ "Dejector". Thesmartpolitenerd.com. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  18. ^ Firekeeper. "Firekeeper". Firekeeper.mozdev.org. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  19. ^
  20. ^ "Leaving Devon Island". Thesmartpolitenerd.com. February 22, 1999. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  21. ^ "Orphan Works Misconceptions". Opencongress.org. April 27, 2008. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  22. ^ "DNA Purification". Maradydd.livejournal.com. December 16, 2003. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  23. ^ "A Layman's Guide to Dealing with the Military Commissions Act of 2006". Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  24. ^ "Radio Free Meredith – Prop 8 postmortem, Part 2: Dissecting the Present". Maradydd.livejournal.com. November 5, 2008. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  25. ^ "Programming language analogies". Maradydd.livejournal.com. February 28, 2006. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  26. ^
  27. ^ "Freezing More than Bits" (PDF). Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  28. ^ "UPSEC". Usenix.org. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  29. ^ "Laptops could Betray Users in the Developing World". Technology.newscientist.com. June 5, 2008. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  30. ^ "CodeCon Valentines". Geekentertainment.tv. February 20, 2006. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  31. ^ Patterson, Meredith (October 14, 2013). "Okay Feminism, It's Time We Had a Talk About Empathy". Medium. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  32. ^ Patterson, Meredith (October 17, 2012). "Advocacy group preference". Twitter. Retrieved November 9, 2015.

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