Simson Garfinkel is the Chief Scientist of BasisTech, LLC., a technology accelerator in Somerville Massachusetts, and a Lecturer at Harvard University, where he co-teaches "Defense Against the Dark Arts (Cybersecurity Edition)" a first year seminar, and "AC221: Critical Thinking in Data Science," an advanced course about data science ethics.
Simson Garfinkel holds seven US patents and has published more than 70 research articles in computer security and digital forensics. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the National Association of Science Writers.
Garfinkel is the co-author of Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, which explores the technology, history, policy, and business implications of quantum information science. As a journalist, he has written about science, technology, and technology policy in the popular press since 1983, and has won several national journalism awards.
Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.
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