About
Technologist mixing novel technology and social insight to solve hard problems. Focusing…
Experience
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Education
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Caltech
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Studied information-based measures of neural complexity and put the Information Integration Theory of Consciousness on rigorous footing.
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Dropped out after I was sued by Blackboard, Inc.
Volunteer Experience
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Data Scientist
The Tor Project
- 7 years
Science and Technology
• Co-Founder of Tor2web proxy –– http://tor2web.org
• Founder of the Roster social incentive –– http://tor-roster.org
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Submission Reviewer
Hackers on Planet Earth / Artificial Life / ACM AISec
- Present 17 years
Science and Technology
Gatekeeper for quality scientific and security conferences.
Patents
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Method and System for Assessing Behavior of a Webpage Visitor
Issued US 2010/0169,177
Projects
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Tor Roster
- Present
Leading a social incentive for Tor relay operators to run more and faster relays.
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Paper: Tor growth rates and improving Torperf throughput
See projectAuthored technical paper on Tor growth rates and how to improve performance.
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Tor2web
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Aaron Swartz and I wanted a way to for "onion sites" to publish to the entire world. So we made one.
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Musicthatmakesyoudumb / Booksthatmakeyoudumb
See projectA data-science demo project which received a surprising amount of media attention. Now featured in the text book “Introduction to Statistics” published by Pearson!
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WikiScanner
See projectCombined two obscure databases and made the New York Times magazine “Ideas that made 2007 what it was.”
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Deriving Mother's Maiden Names from Public Records
Derived Mother's Maiden Names for ~10% of Texas. Published in RSA Cryptobytes.
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Polyworld
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Used artificial evolution as the ladder to artificial intelligence which resulted in some papers on the evolution of neutral complexity.
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Honors & Awards
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Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Entrepreneurship
California Institute of Technology
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Creativity Magazine 50
Creativity Magazine
http://adage.com/article/creativity-50/2009-creativity-50-virgil-griffith/134512/
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Innovation in Journalism Award
Knight Foundation
Jointly received with Wired Magazine for WikiScanner.
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Win Against Spin award
Center for Media and Democracy
WikiScanner caught several PR firms whitewashing entries on themselves and their clients, such as Hill & Knowton's deleting passages on human rights abuses by the Maldives government. “WikiScanner is one of the few positive things to come out of this year's War On Spin,” wrote one reader.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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German
Elementary proficiency
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