Meredith L. Patterson
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Meredith Patterson (2010)
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| Born | April 30, 1977 |
| Residence | Brussels |
| Occupation | Researcher, writer |
| Known for | DIYbio, X.509 attacks |
| Spouse(s) | Len Sassaman (2006–2011; his death) |
| Website | www |
Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977) is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics. She is also a blogger and software developer, and a leading figure in the biopunk movement.
Patterson spent her first 24 years living in and around Houston, before moving to Iowa City, Iowa, to pursue her Master's degree in Linguistics and PhD in Computer Science. Patterson attended Kingwood High School from 1990 to 1994. She supported herself doing odd-jobs from website designer, technical writer, math teacher and professional restaurant critic to reporter for the Houston Press, She served as the Treasurer of the Mars Society Houston branch in 1999. That same year, at age 22, she traveled above the Arctic Circle as a NASA correspondent for a Mars simulation mission.
Patterson 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.
She 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. While this work was initially funded by Google's Summer of Code program, Patterson's datamining work now 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 was launched at SuperHappyDevHouse.
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