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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, a wireless ISP, in 2000. The company went bankrupt in September 2001, and Garfinkel bought Vineyard.NET back from the debtor's
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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)
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Garfinkel, Simson, Paul Farrell, Vassil Roussev, and George Dinolt. "Bringing science to digital forensics with standardized forensic corpora." Digital Investigation 6 (2009): S2-S11.
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in 2012, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2019 and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021
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Designing a write-once file system (a general-purpose optical storage software technology), Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1991, Jan, pp. 78, 80, 82--26.
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Garfinkel is the author or co-author of 16 books, and the author of more than a thousand articles. He is a contributing writer for
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earned him five regional and national journalism awards, including the Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Awards in 2003 and 2004.
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of the records in the address book with each keypress. This kind of search is now standard on many computer programs, including
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Garfinkel, Simson L. "Digital forensics research: The next 10 years." Digital Investigation 7 (2010): S64-S73.
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A common theme throughout Garfinkel's research is introduction of the scientific method to digital forensics.
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called SBook. One of SBook's most popular features was a search field that performed a full-text search of
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Web Security, Privacy and Commerce, with Gene Spafford. 2001. (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.)
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S. Garfinkel, "A file system for write once media, MIT Media Lab., Oct. 1986.
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For contributions to digital forensics and to computer security education
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from September 2005 through August 2008. He was named a Fellow of the
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magazine reporting on an experiment in which they purchased 158 used
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Garfinkel, Simson; Weise, Daniel; Strassman, Steven, eds. (1994).
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and has written as a freelancer for many publications including
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For contributions to digital forensics and computer security
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magazine, Garfinkel created an address book program for the
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In 2003, Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat published an article in
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Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
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Department of Defense Value Engineering Achievement Award
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2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide
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from MIT in 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the
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In September 2006, Garfinkel joined the faculty of the
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Index

Simson L. Garfinkel
Simon & Garfunkel

MIT
Columbia University
MIT
Database Nation
Marian Garfinkel
Computer science
US Census Bureau
Doctoral advisor
David D. Clark
BasisTech
Somerville, Massachusetts
Schmidt Futures
Department of Homeland Security
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California
journalist
entrepreneur
inventor
computer security
privacy
information technology
optical storage
MIT Media Laboratory
NeXTWORLD
NeXT Computer
Apple

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