17 Facts About Simson Garfinkel

Simson L Garfinkel was born on 1965 and is an American computer scientist.

Simson Garfinkel is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of BasisTech in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Simson Garfinkel was previously a program scientist at AI2050, part of Schmidt Futures.

Simson Garfinkel has held several roles across government, including a Senior Data Scientist at the Department of Homeland Security, the US Census Bureau's Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access and a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Simson 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.

Simson Garfinkel was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University from September 2005 through August 2008.

In 1991, while a senior editor at NeXTWORLD magazine, Simson Garfinkel created an address book program for the NeXT Computer called SBook.

In 1995, Simson Garfinkel moved to Martha's Vineyard and started Vineyard.

Simson Garfinkel went bankrupt in September 2001, and Garfinkel bought Vineyard.

In 1998, Simson Garfinkel founded Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that developed advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems.

Simson Garfinkel is the inventor of six patents, mostly in the field of computer security.

In 2006, Simson 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.

In September 2006, Simson Garfinkel joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, as an associate professor of Computer Science.

Simson Garfinkel moved to Arlington, Virginia, in June 2010 to help NPS with its research aims in the National Capital Region.

Simson Garfinkel transitioned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in January 2015, and to the US Census Bureau in 2017.

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

Simson Garfinkel is a contributing writer for Technology Review and has written as a freelancer for many publications including Wired magazine, The Boston Globe, Privacy Journal, and CSO Magazine.