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Technical Perspective: A Whitebox Solution for Blackbox-Like Behaviors
DeepXplore brings a software testing perspective to deep neural networks and, in doing so, creates the opportunity for enormous amounts of follow-on work in several...
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DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems
We design, implement, and evaluate DeepXplore, the first white-box framework for systematically testing real-world deep learning systems.
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Technical Perspective: The Scalability of CertiKOS
The authors of "Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels" illustrate that formal verification can scale up to a moderate-size program (6,500 lines of C) that has...
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Building Certified Concurrent OS Kernels
In this work, we present CertiKOS, a novel compositional framework for building verified concurrent OS kernels.
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Technical Perspective: Do You Know Why Your Web Pages Load Faster?
"Taking a Long Look at QUIC," by Arash Molavi Kakhki et al., is a bold attempt to unearth the reasons why QUIC works better than TCP.
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Taking a Long Look at QUIC: An Approach for Rigorous Evaluation of Rapidly Evolving Transport Protocols
There is a need for alternative techniques for understanding and evaluating QUIC when compared with previous transport-layer protocols.
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Technical Perspective: Borrowing Big Code to Automate Programming Activities
"Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'" presents new techniques for leveraging big code to automate two programming activities: selecting understandable...
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Predicting Program Properties from 'Big Code'
We present a new approach for predicting program properties from large codebases (aka "Big Code").
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Technical Perspective: Attacking Cryptographic Key Exchange with Precomputation
"Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice," by David Adrian et al., illustrates the importance of taking preprocessing attacks into account...
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Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
We investigate the security of Diffie-Hellman key exchange as used in popular Internet protocols and find it to be less secure than widely believed.
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Technical Perspective: WebAssembly: A Quiet Revolution of the Web
"Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly," by Rossberg et al., gives an overview of the initial design of WebAssembly, a new low-level programming language...
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Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly
WebAssembly is the first mainstream language designed from the start with a formal semantics. It not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying formal techniques...
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Technical Perspective: Node Replication Divides to Conquer
In "How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure," Calciu et al. show that a concurrent data structure can be built automatically and that its performance is...
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How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure
We propose a method called Node Replication (NR) to implement any concurrent data structure.
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Technical Perspective: Backdoor Engineering
"Where Did I Leave My Keys?" by Checkoway et al. reports on the amazing independent reconstruction of a backdoor, discovered in the firmware of a VPN router commonly...
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Where Did I Leave My Keys?: Lessons from the Juniper Dual EC Incident
In this paper, we describe the results of a full independent analysis of the ScreenOS randomness and VPN key establishment protocol subsystems, which we carried...
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Technical Perspective: The Future of MPI
"Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided" convincingly shows that the potential of MPI one-sided communication can be realized...
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Enabling Highly Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided
In this work, we design and develop bufferless protocols that demonstrate how to implement the MPI-3 RMA interface and support scaling to millions of cores.
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Technical Perspective: Is Your WiFi a Sensor?
"Emotion Recognition Using Wireless Signals" shows that not only can the heartrate be counted with accuracy comparable to ECG devices, but the variabilities of...
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