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Simson Garfinkel

April 08, 2024

Not to be confused with Simon & Garfunkel.

Simson L. Garfinkel (born 1965) is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of BasisTech in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was previously a program scientist at AI2050, part of Schmidt Futures.[1] He has held several roles across government, including a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Homeland Security,[2] the US Census Bureau's Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access[3] and a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 2006 to 2015, he was an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In addition to his research, Garfinkel is a journalist, an entrepreneur and an inventor; his work is generally concerned with computer security, privacy and information technology.

Simson L. Garfinkel
Born1965 (age 58–59)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT (BS 1987)
Columbia University (MS 1988)
MIT (PhD 2005)
Known forThe Computer Book
Cross-Drive Analysis
Database Nation
Practical UNIX and Internet Security
Parents
AwardsDepartment of Defense Value Engineering Achievement Award
Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUS Census Bureau
Doctoral advisorDavid D. Clark

Research edit

Garfinkel's early research was in the field of optical storage. While he was an undergraduate at the 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 NeXTWORLD magazine, Garfinkel created an address book program for the NeXT Computer called SBook.[6] One of SBook's most popular features was a search field that performed a full-text search of all of the records in the address book with each keypress. This kind of search is now standard on many computer programs, including Apple's 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 Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, as an associate professor of Computer Science.[13] He moved to 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 edit

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 edit

Garfinkel is the author or co-author of 16 books, and the author of more than a thousand articles.[20] He is a contributing writer for Technology Review[21] and has written as a freelancer for many publications including 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 edit

  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. Lorrie Cranor and Garfinkel, Simson (2005). Security and Usability. O'Reilly and Associates.
  4. Garfinkel, Simson and Beth Rosenberg (2005). RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy. Addison-Wesley.
  5. Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz (2003). Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 978-0596003234.
  6. Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (2002). Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide. O'Reilly and Associates. 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. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00105-3. (review by Peter G. Neumann and review by 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. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-388-X. (review by Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest)
  11. Garfinkel, Simson with Eugene Spafford (1997). Web Security and Commerce. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 9781565922693.
  12. Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford (1996). Practical UNIX and Internet Security. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-148-8. (review by Peter G. Neumann in the RISKS Digest)
  13. Garfinkel, Simson (1995). PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-098-8.
  14. Garfinkel, Simson; Weise, Daniel; Strassman, Steven, eds. (1994). UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG. ISBN 1-56884-203-1.
  15. Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (1993). NeXTStep Programming. The Electronic Library of Science. ISBN 0-387-97884-4.
  16. Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford (1991). Practical UNIX and Security. O'Reilly and Associates. Bibcode:1991pus..book.....G.

References edit

  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. ^ "Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices" (PDF). IEEE Security & Privacy. January 2003. pp. 17–27. ISSN 1540-7993.
  12. ^ Garfinkel, S. (September 2006). "Forensic Feature Extraction and Cross-Drive Analysis" (PDF). Digital Investigation. 3, Supplement 1: 71–81. doi:10.1016/j.diin.2006.06.007.
  13. ^ . 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. . 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] September 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

External links edit

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Not to be confused with Simon amp Garfunkel Simson L Garfinkel born 1965 is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of BasisTech in Somerville Massachusetts He was previously a program scientist at AI2050 part of Schmidt Futures 1 He has held several roles across government including a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Homeland Security 2 the US Census Bureau s Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access 3 and a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology From 2006 to 2015 he was an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California In addition to his research Garfinkel is a journalist an entrepreneur and an inventor his work is generally concerned with computer security privacy and information technology Simson L GarfinkelBorn1965 age 58 59 NationalityAmericanAlma materMIT BS 1987 Columbia University MS 1988 MIT PhD 2005 Known forThe Computer BookCross Drive AnalysisDatabase NationPractical UNIX and Internet SecurityParentsMarvin Garfinkel father Marian Garfinkel mother AwardsDepartment of Defense Value Engineering Achievement AwardJesse H Neal National Business Journalism AwardScientific careerFieldsComputer scienceInstitutionsUS Census BureauDoctoral advisorDavid D Clark Contents 1 Research 2 Education and honors 3 Publications 3 1 Books 4 References 5 External linksResearch editGarfinkel s early research was in the field of optical storage While he was an undergraduate at the 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 NeXTWORLD magazine Garfinkel created an address book program for the NeXT Computer called SBook 6 One of SBook s most popular features was a search field that performed a full text search of all of the records in the address book with each keypress This kind of search is now standard on many computer programs including Apple s 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 amp 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 Naval Postgraduate School NPS in Monterey California as an associate professor of Computer Science 13 He moved to 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 editGarfinkel 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 editGarfinkel is the author or co author of 16 books and the author of more than a thousand articles 20 He is a contributing writer for Technology Review 21 and has written as a freelancer for many publications including 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 edit 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 Usable Security History Themes and Challenges by Simson Garfinkel and Heather Lipford 2014 Morgan amp Claypool part of the Synthesis Lectures on Information Security Privacy and Trust series Lorrie Cranor and Garfinkel Simson 2005 Security and Usability O Reilly and Associates Garfinkel Simson and Beth Rosenberg 2005 RFID Applications Security and Privacy Addison Wesley Garfinkel Simson and Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz 2003 Practical UNIX and Internet Security 3rd Edition O Reilly and Associates ISBN 978 0596003234 Garfinkel Simson and Michael K Mahoney 2002 Building Cocoa Applications A Step by Step Guide O Reilly and Associates ISBN 0 596 00235 1 Web Security Privacy and Commerce with Gene Spafford 2001 O Reilly amp Associates Inc Garfinkel Simson 2000 Database Nation The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century O Reilly and Associates ISBN 0 596 00105 3 review by Peter G Neumann and review by Eugene Spafford in the RISKS Digest Garfinkel Simson 1999 Architects of the Information Society MIT Press ISBN 9780262071963 Garfinkel Simson amp Alan Schwartz 1998 Stopping Spam O Reilly and Associates ISBN 1 56592 388 X review by Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest Garfinkel Simson with Eugene Spafford 1997 Web Security and Commerce O Reilly and Associates ISBN 9781565922693 Garfinkel Simson and Eugene Spafford 1996 Practical UNIX and Internet Security O Reilly and Associates ISBN 1 56592 148 8 review by Peter G Neumann in the RISKS Digest Garfinkel Simson 1995 PGP Pretty Good Privacy O Reilly and Associates ISBN 1 56592 098 8 Garfinkel Simson Weise Daniel Strassman Steven eds 1994 UNIX HATERS Handbook IDG ISBN 1 56884 203 1 Garfinkel Simson and Michael K Mahoney 1993 NeXTStep Programming The Electronic Library of Science ISBN 0 387 97884 4 Garfinkel Simson and Eugene Spafford 1991 Practical UNIX and Security O Reilly and Associates Bibcode 1991pus book G References edit Our People Schmidt Futures Retrieved 2023 01 23 DHS Data US Census Bureau Staff Roster PDF S Garfinkel A file system for write once media MIT Media Lab Oct 1986 Designing a write once file system a general purpose optical storage software technology Dr Dobb s Journal 1991 Jan pp 78 80 82 26 Garfinkel Simson SBook is Simson Garfinkel s Address Book Retrieved 2018 12 21 BB2W archived at simson net Broadband2Wireless files for bankruptcy 2001 09 01 dead link Niksun niksun com U S patent 7 779 032 U S patent 7 023 854 U S patent 6 993 661 U S patent 6 744 864 U S patent 6 678 270 U S patent 6 490 349 Remembrance of Data Passed A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices PDF IEEE Security amp Privacy January 2003 pp 17 27 ISSN 1540 7993 Garfinkel S September 2006 Forensic Feature Extraction and Cross Drive Analysis PDF Digital Investigation 3 Supplement 1 71 81 doi 10 1016 j diin 2006 06 007 NPS at U S Navy Archived from the original on 2007 11 11 Garfinkel Simson Paul Farrell Vassil Roussev and George Dinolt Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora Digital Investigation 6 2009 S2 S11 Garfinkel Simson L Digital forensics research The next 10 years Digital Investigation 7 2010 S64 S73 Harvard CRCS 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 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 Elected Fellows AAAS Simson Garfinkel Bio http simson net page Bio Staff List Technology Review com July 7 2008 http www technologyreview com corp staff aspx 1 Archived September 17 2008 at the Wayback MachineExternal links editSimson Garfinkel s home page Simson Garfinkel s official website at the Naval Postgraduate School Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Simson Garfinkel amp oldid 1215493517, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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