Keith Jonathan Winstein (born 1981) is a U.S. computer scientist and journalist. He is currently a professor at Stanford University. Previously, he was the Claude E. Shannon Research AssistantKeith Winstein and Faraz Najafi named recipients of 2012 Claude E. Shannon Research Assistantships
RLE News Articles, 27 April 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013. at the

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's Networks and Mobile Systems group at the

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, pursuing a Ph.D. under Hari Balakrishnan. Winstein is best known as the author of

Mosh Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other, typically performed to "aggressive" live music such as heavy metal and punk rock. Moshing usually happen ...

, the mobile shell, a UDP-based

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replacement optimized for mobile users featuring predictive local echo, automatic roaming, and high network resiliency. He is the son of the late

experimental physicist Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments and ...

Bruce Winstein.

Computer science

Winstein was involved in several computer science projects. * Tyrannosaurus Lex is a system Winstein designed to hide messages in documents by altering specific words, published in 1999 while Winstein was in high school at the

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.Vanderkam, Laura

Scientific American Online, 16 May 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013. The system was the original work in the field of " linguistic steganography."Chang, Ching-Yun, and Stephen Clark
"Practical linguistic steganography using contextual synonym substitution and vertex colour coding"
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010 However, analysis of Winstein's scheme by other researchers found that Tyrannosaurus Lex contains several vulnerabilities, allowing an eavesdropper to potentially decode hidden messages embedded using the system.Bergmair, Richard
"Towards linguistic steganography: A systematic investigation of approaches, systems, and issues"
Final year project, The University of Derby, April (2004). Retrieved 2 May 2013.Taskiran, Cuneyt M., et al
"Attacks on lexical natural language steganography systems"
, Electronic Imaging 2006. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2006.Clark, Stephen and Ching-Yun (Frannie) Chang
"Linguistic Steganography: Information Hiding in Text"
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, May 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013. *

, the mobile shell, first released in March 2012, is a

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, ...

tool used to connect from a client computer to a server over the Internet, to run a remote

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."Mosh: the mobile shell"
Retrieved on 28 March 2013. Mosh is similarBrockmeier, Joe
"Into the Mosh Pit: A Mobile Shell Replacement for SSH"
, ''linux.com'', 10 April 2012. Retrieved on 28 March 2013. to

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, with additional features meant to improve usability for

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users. * qrpff is one of the shortest programs that implements the

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algorithm, co-authored by Winstein and Marc Horowitz, while at

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.Loux, Brian
SIPB Members’ Hack Draws Legal Controversy
The Tech, 13 March 2001. *

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was a project at

that allowed users to play CDs from a music library over the cable TV system.Schwartz, John
With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?
New York Times, 27 October 2003. * Winstein, along with Joshua Mandel, built a device for

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that allowed him to get past the

proximity-card-locked doors, while allowing him to remain anonymous. The device would identify itself as Winstein,

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, or Hal Abelson, in order to open the door.

Journalism

Winstein was a news reporter for ''

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s Boston bureau from 2005Forelle, Charles
"Fun with Calendars"
Wall Street Journal Online, 29 December 2009. Retrieved on 2 May 2013. to its closure in 2009, focusing on the biomedical beat. Prior to his stint at the ''Journal'', he was a reporter and news editor for MIT's student newspaper, '' The Tech'', and interned at ''

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''. As a reporter, Winstein wrote several articles critical of medical studies.Wood, Shelley
ATLAS trial "flaws"? Wall Street Journal alleges stats do not prove noninferiority of Liberté to Taxus Express
theheart.org, 14 August 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013.Wall Street Journal: Reporter reviews data, says company published flawed research analysis
Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 14 August 2008. Retrieved 15 Jan 2016.Winstein, Keith
"A Simple Health-Care Fix Fizzles Out"
The Wall Street Journal, 11 February 2010, page A1. Winstein also disclosed errors in

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.Goldberg, Carey
"Is ‘Google Flu Trends’ Prescient Or Wrong?"
wbur's CommonHealth, 13 January 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.Goldberg, Carey
"As Flu Ebbs, Google Tracker Looking Way, Way Too High"
wbur's CommonHealth, 4 February 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.

References

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