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Technical Perspective: Sora Promises Lasting Impact
The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware...
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FastTrack: Efficient and Precise Dynamic Race Detection
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions. Prior work developed precise dynamic race detectors that never report false alarms. However, these...
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Goldilocks: A Race-Aware Java Runtime
GOLDILOCKS is a Java runtime that monitors program executions and throws a DataRaceException when a data race...
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Technical Perspective: Data Races Are Evil with No Exceptions
Exploiting parallelism has become the primary means to higher performance. Shared memory is a pervasively used programming...
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Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines
Virtual machine monitors are a popular platform for Internet hosting centers and cloud-based compute services. But main memory is not amenable to multiplexed hardware...
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Technical Perspective: A VM 'Engine' That Makes a Difference
The past decade has witnessed a renaissance in server virtualization. Diwaker Gupta et al. present a novel approach for significantly improving the efficiency of...
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Privacy Integrated Queries: An Extensible Platform For Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis
Privacy Integrated Queries (PINQ) is an extensible data analysis platform designed to provide unconditional privacy guarantees for the records of the underlying...
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Technical Perspective: Programming With Differential Privacy
Government agencies worldwide release statistical information about population, education, and health, crime...
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Reasoning About the Unknown in Static Analysis
Static program analysis techniques cannot know certain values, such as the value of user input or network state, at analysis...
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Technical Persepctive: Large-Scale Sound and Precise Program Analysis
You are given a program. Will it crash? Is it subject to a spoofing, buffer overflow, or injection attack? Is this part of...
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Technical Persepctive: Attacks Target Web Server Logic and Prey on XCS Weaknesses
A system is secure only if the entire system is secure. While this may sound obvious, achieving total security throughout a system is rarely trivial when you consider...
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X86-TSO: A Rigorous and Usable Programmer's Model For X86 Multiprocessors
Exploiting the multiprocessors that have recently become ubiquitous requires high-performance and reliable concurrent systems code. However, concurrent programming...
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Technical Perspective: A Solid Foundation For X86 Shared Memory
Multithreaded programs that communicate through shared memory are pervasive. Today they are the most obvious...
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seL4: Formal Verification of an Operating-System Kernel
We report on the formal, machine-checked verification of the seL4 microkernel from an abstract specification down to its C implementation. We assume correctness...
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Technical Perspective: Learning To Do Program Verification
When you decide to use a piece of software, how do you know it will do what you need it to do? Will it be safe to run? Will it interfere...
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Asserting and Checking Determinism For Multithreaded Programs
The trend towards processors with more and more parallel cores is increasing the need for software that can take advantage of...
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Technical Perspective: Building Confidence in Multicore Software
Surprises may be fun in real life, but not so in software. One approach to avoiding surprises in software is to establish its...
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Automatic Program Repair With Evolutionary Computation
There are many methods for detecting and mitigating software errors but few generic methods for automatically repairing errors once they are discovered. Recent...
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Technical Perspective: Automated Patching Techniques: The Fix Is In
Finding bugs is technically demanding and yet economically vital. How much more difficult yet valuable would it be to...
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