Presented at
The Last HOPE (2008),
July 18, 2008, 3 p.m.
(60 minutes).
Not only the world's largest text-based MMO, Wikipedia is a staple of the Internet user's information diet. Because of this, Wikipedia is also laden with manipulation, forgery, and the downright unscrupulous. In a never before seen presentation, Virgil will mine deep into the bowels of Wikipedia to unearth nefarious deeds whose perpetrators never thought would see the light of day.
New software will be released at this talk. If you liked WikiScanner, you will like this more.
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Virgil Griffith
Virgil Griffith is a first year graduate student in computation and neural systems at the California Institute of Technology. On weekdays he studies information theory and neuroscience. On weekends, he uses datamining to make the Internet a better and more interesting place. He gained notoriety as a freshman in college when the fallout from his first paper caused him to get sued under the Sedition and Espionage Act. Recovering from litigation-related injuries, the following year he dropped out of college to join the School of Informatics at Indiana University, graduating three years later. Now under the auspice of expensive Caltech lawyers, Virgil has renewed his security research.
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