Meredith L. Patterson

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Meredith L. Patterson is a technologist and science fiction author. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics.[1]

She is known for her work in computational linguistics and its applications to computer security. In 2005, she presented the first parse tree validation technique for stopping SQL injection attacks at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.[2]

Patterson has integrated her support vector machine datamining library inside of PostgreSQL to provide a "query-by-example" extension to the SQL language, allowing DBAs to quickly and easily form complex datamining requests based on example positive and negative inputs. Patterson's datamining work forms the basis of her startup, Osogato, which couples the datamining database with acoustic feature extractors allowing users to create playlists from their own music collections and find new music based on the inherent properties of the music they provide as sample inputs. Osogato came out of stealth mode at SuperHappyDevHouse.[3]

Prior to founding Osogato, Patterson worked for Mu Security. Before that, she was a PhD student at the University of Iowa. She did her undergrad in linguistics at the University of Houston and received her Masters in linguistics from the University of Iowa.[4]

Patterson has contributed to multiple open-source database software projects, including SciTools,[5] Klein,[6] QBE[7], and PostgreSQL.[8]

As a science fiction author, Patterson has published numerous short stories in such magazines as Fortean Bureau, Strange Horizons, in compilations such as The Doom of Camelot and The Children of Cthulhu, and is credited as contributing to the Steve Jackson Games game GURPS Villains.

She frequently discusses such issues as copyright reform[9], biohacking[10], and programming languages[11] on her personal blog.

In spring of 2008, she published a paper in a USENIX workshop criticizing the lack attention paid to user-privacy in the OLPC laptop.[12]

Patterson lives and works in San Francisco, California.


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  1. ^ Presentations
  2. ^ Stopping SQL Injection Attacks
  3. ^ SHDH presentation
  4. ^ Personal bio
  5. ^ SciTools Presentation
  6. ^ Klein
  7. ^ QBE
  8. ^ PostgreSQL Summit
  9. ^ Orphan Works Misconceptions
  10. ^ DNA Purification
  11. ^ Programming language analogies
  12. ^ Laptops could Betray Users in the Developing World
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