Simson Garfinkel

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Simson L. Garfinkel
US Census Bureau
Doctoral advisorDavid D. Clark

Simson L. Garfinkel (born 1965) is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of

inventor; his work is generally concerned with computer security, privacy and information technology
.

Research

Garfinkel's early research was in the field of

MIT Media Laboratory, Garfinkel developed CDFS, the first file system for write-once optical disk systems.[4] During the summer of 1987, he worked at Brown University's IRIS Project, where he developed a server allowing CDROMs to be shared over a network simultaneously by multiple workstations.[5]

In 1991, while a senior editor at

Mail application and Mozilla Thunderbird
. SBook was one of the first programs to incorporate this kind of search technology.

In 1995, Garfinkel moved to Martha's Vineyard and started Vineyard.NET, the Vineyard's first Internet Service Provider. Vineyard.NET was bought by Broadband2Wireless,[7] a wireless ISP, in 2000. The company went bankrupt in September 2001,[8] and Garfinkel bought Vineyard.NET back from the debtor's estate.

In 1998, Garfinkel founded Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that developed advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. Sandstorm was acquired by Niksun[9] in 2010. Garfinkel is the inventor of six patents,[10] mostly in the field of computer security.

In 2003, Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat published an article[11] in IEEE Security & Privacy magazine reporting on an experiment in which they purchased 158 used hard drives from a variety of sources and checked to see whether they still contained readable data. Roughly one third of the drives appeared to have information that was highly confidential and should have been erased prior to the drive's resale.

In 2006, Garfinkel introduced cross-drive analysis, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for automatically reconstructing social networks from hard drives and other kinds of data-carrying devices that are likely to contain pseudo-unique information.[12]

In September 2006, Garfinkel joined the faculty of the

Arlington, Virginia
, in June 2010 to help NPS with its research aims in the National Capital Region. He transitioned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in January 2015, and to the US Census Bureau in 2017.

A common theme throughout Garfinkel's research is introduction of the scientific method to digital forensics.[14][15]

Education and honors

Garfinkel obtained three BS degrees from MIT in 1987; a MS in journalism from Columbia University in 1988; and a PhD in computer science from MIT in 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University from September 2005 through August 2008.[16] He was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2012,[17] a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2019[18] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021[19]

Publications

Garfinkel is the author or co-author of 16 books, and the author of more than a thousand articles.

Wired magazine, The Boston Globe, Privacy Journal, and CSO Magazine. His work for CSO Magazine earned him five regional and national journalism awards, including the Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Awards in 2003 and 2004.[22]

Garfinkel is also the editor of The Forensics Wiki

Books

  1. The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science (Sterling Milestones), by Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan. 2018 (Sterling)
  2. Usable Security: History, Themes, and Challenges], by Simson Garfinkel and Heather Lipford, 2014. (Morgan & Claypool, part of the Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy and Trust series.)
  3. O'Reilly and Associates
    .
  4. Garfinkel, Simson and Beth Rosenberg (2005). RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy. Addison-Wesley.
  5. Garfinkel, Simson and
    ISBN 978-0596003234
    .
  6. Garfinkel, Simson and
    ISBN 0-596-00235-1
    .
  7. Web Security, Privacy and Commerce, with Gene Spafford. 2001. (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.)
  8. Garfinkel, Simson (2000). Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century.
    Eugene Spafford, in the RISKS Digest
    )
  9. Garfinkel, Simson (1999). Architects of the Information Society. MIT Press.
    ISBN 9780262071963
    .
  10. Garfinkel, Simson & Alan Schwartz (1998). Stopping Spam.
    Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest
    )
  11. Garfinkel, Simson with
    ISBN 9781565922693
    .
  12. Garfinkel, Simson and
    ISBN 1-56592-148-8. (review by Peter G. Neumann in the RISKS Digest
    )
  13. Garfinkel, Simson (1995). PGP: Pretty Good Privacy.
    ISBN 1-56592-098-8
    .
  14. Garfinkel, Simson; Weise, Daniel; Strassman, Steven, eds. (1994).
    ISBN 1-56884-203-1
    .
  15. Garfinkel, Simson and
    ISBN 0-387-97884-4
    .
  16. Garfinkel, Simson and
    Bibcode:1991pus..book.....G
    .

References

  1. ^ "Our People". Schmidt Futures. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
  2. ^ "DHS Data".
  3. ^ "US Census Bureau Staff Roster" (PDF).
  4. ^ S. Garfinkel, "A file system for write once media, MIT Media Lab., Oct. 1986.
  5. ^ Designing a write-once file system (a general-purpose optical storage software technology), Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1991, Jan, pp. 78, 80, 82--26.
  6. ^ Garfinkel, Simson. "SBook is Simson Garfinkel's Address Book". Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  7. ^ "BB2W". archived at simson.net
  8. ^ "Broadband2Wireless files for bankruptcy". 2001-09-01.[dead link]
  9. ^ "Niksun". niksun.com.
  10. ^ U.S. patent 7,779,032U.S. patent 7,023,854U.S. patent 6,993,661U.S. patent 6,744,864U.S. patent 6,678,270U.S. patent 6,490,349
  11. ISSN 1540-7993
    .
  12. doi:10.1016/j.diin.2006.06.007
    .
  13. ^ "NPS at U. S. Navy". Archived from the original on 2007-11-11.
  14. ^ Garfinkel, Simson, Paul Farrell, Vassil Roussev, and George Dinolt. "Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora." Digital Investigation 6 (2009): S2-S11.
  15. ^ Garfinkel, Simson L. "Digital forensics research: The next 10 years." Digital Investigation 7 (2010): S64-S73.
  16. ^ Harvard CRCS
  17. ^ Gold, Virginia. "2012 Fellows Hail from World's Leading Universities and Corporations". The Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved Dec 11, 2012. Simson Garfinkel, For contributions to digital forensics and to computer security education
  18. ^ "IEEE Computer Society Announces 2019 Fellows". The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved Dec 21, 2018. Simson Garfinkel, For contributions to digital forensics and computer security
  19. ^ "Elected Fellows AAAS".
  20. ^ Simson Garfinkel Bio, http://simson.net/page/Bio
  21. ^ "Staff List," Technology Review.com, July 7, 2008 http://www.technologyreview.com/corp/staff.aspx
  22. ^ [1] Archived September 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

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