Virgil Griffith
Professional information
- Name
- Virgil Griffith
- Title/position
- graduate student in computation and neural systems
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology
- Biography
As an undergraduate at the University of Alabama, Virgil Griffith was sued for demonstrating the security flaws in multi-use campus ID cards. He moved to Indiana University, where he was hired to teach computer security before being admitted as an undergraduate. He developed Wikiscanner, a tool for identifying organizations that have edited Wikipedia entries, and has worked on Polyworld, a computer-generated example of artificial evolution. He has been a guest at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and is a regular visitor to the Santa Fe Institute.
- Web site address
- http://virgil.gr/
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