Simson Garfinkel
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Computer scientist & journalist, specializing in AI, privacy, ethics, big data, usability and security. My opinions here. ORCID 0000-0003-1294-2831
Somerville, MA
Joined April 2009
Want to learn the basics of spinning up virtual machines in AWS, setting up a web server, building a database-driven application that uses Amazon S3 and an SQL database, and uses the Amazon Rekognition API? I'm still looking for a few people to test-drive the labs that I put
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CSCI E-11 Class Repository for Spring 2026. Contribute to Harvard-CSCI-E-11/spring26 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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ACM's new "Open Access" policy makes the articles in the ACM Digital Library open access, but perplexingly puts some bibliometrics behind a paywall. As an ACM Fellow, I have signed the petition asking ACM to make the bibliometrics Open Access as well, as they should be. I
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Restore Fully Free and Open Access to the ACM Digital Library
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AI, IoT and CyberSecurity — Help test the labs! Hi everyone — I'm looking for 10 people to try out the labs for Harvard CSCI E-11, AI, IoT and Internet of Things. The labs are available for free, but the grader and the course dashboard require either a Harvard account or a
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AI, Internet of Things, and Cybersecurity - SPRING 2026 We have published the first three pages of the syllabus for our Harvard Extension Course:
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Desktops from Naoshima (Japan's art island). I took some stunning photographs on my most recent trip to Japan. The ZIP file has 15 high resolution photos. (The photo with the birds was taken in Nagasaki.) https://t.co/tNNApGleIo
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NSF has awarded $1.3M to Sebastian Angel, Andreas Haeberlen, Brett Falk, Ryan Marcus and Pratyush Mishra at the University of Pennsylvania under the "Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP)" program to develop a "Trusted Integration Data Exchange" based on
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NSF has awarded $1M to Miel Hostens at Cornell and Joao R Dorea at the University of Wisconsin under the "Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP)" program. This applies privacy-preserving data analysis to dairy farming! Congrats! https://t.co/y7WVl7CemB
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NSF has awarded $760K to Henry Corrigan-Gibbs at MIT CSAIL and Emma Dauterman at Stanford under the "Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP)" program. This award is developing new privacy-preserving protocols, ML algorithms that operate on encrypted data, and
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I will be co-teaching Artificial Intelligence, the Internet-of-Things, and Cybersecurity (CSCI E-11) with Geoff Cohen this spring at the Harvard Extension School. Details are at https://t.co/Rjm76hDuop . If you want to see the labs, they are on GitHub at https://t.co/SOGBlYSvXF .
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I just got to participate in @Simon__Grimm 's biosurveillance program by donating an anonymous nasal swab at the Harvard Square station in MA. My swab was commingled with others, making it harder to trace. More details here: https://t.co/0yrFqJj1eY
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At the @Harvard Kennedy school of Government "New Faculty Institute," I learned that when teaching, there are three entities in the classroom: the teacher, the students, and the material. The best teaching comes when it is the teacher and the students against the material. All
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My first publication in Science! https://t.co/raAEJv70Lt
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A legal scholar pushes for net neutrality and other actions to rein in tech monopolies
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New report urges governments around the world to achieve “Digital Transformation https://t.co/LrkNWPZusQ
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The Association for Computing Machinery’s global Technology Policy Council has released “TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation.” It is the latest in a series of TechBriefs—short technical...
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Wow! Sara has started posting her novel... https://t.co/nnir3rwKYs
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In case you missed it, I wrote a fun review of "Our Dollar, Your Problem." You can find it on my new substack page: https://t.co/shKa2Qkowm
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I reviewed Kenneth Rogoff's book Our Dollar, Your Problem. I liked it, and I'm recommending it to all of my friends.
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https://t.co/ZSXB50OycS Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research
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Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research | News | The Harvard Crimson
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Yesterday Apple hosted a workshop on privay-preserving machine learning featuring 25 papers on #differentialPrivacy #ContextualIntegrity and #PrivacyAmplification. All papers available online! Check it out:
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Apple believes that privacy is a fundamental human right. As AI experiences become increasingly personal and a part of people's daily lives…
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There are many great logical reasons why I am focused on investing in deep tech. But there are also some more deeply rooted emotional ones. You can read a little bit more about both here, and hopefully you can guess the emotional ones by the preview image. (Link in comments,
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