CIS Seminar: Rethinking Operating System and Hardware Abstractions for Good and Evil
Abstract: Current hardware and operating system abstractions were conceived at a time when we had minimal security threats, scarce compute and memory resources, and limited numbers of users. These assumptions […]
ESE & CIS Seminar: “Toward Power-Efficient Computing with Applied Inference”
Abstract: We require computers that extract value from exponential data growth even as exponential transistor scaling falters. With limited scaling, power and thermal density threaten performance. Architects must pursue power […]
CIS Seminar: “Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes”
Abstract: Emerging networking architectures are allowing for flexible and reconfigurable packet processing at line rate both on the switch and the NIC. Despite their promising new functionality, programmable switches and […]
CIS Seminar: ” Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges”
Abstract: Cryptocurrencies and blockchains are often heralded as the keys to a new era of financial transparency and fairness. Decentralized exchanges (DEXes), in particular, run directly on blockchains. They manage custody of traded […]
CIS Seminar: “Reducing Errors in Quantum Computation via Program Transformation”
Abstract: Quantum computing promises exponential speedups for an important class of problems. While quantum computers with few dozens of qubits have been demonstrated, these machines suffer from high rate of […]
CIS: Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture: “A 2020 Vision of U.S. Election Security”
Abstract: Despite the provision of a $380M federal grant to enhance technology and improve security in the 2018 midterm elections, machine failures and computer malfunctions again plagued polling places (in […]
CIS Seminar: “Achieving CSforALL through the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)”
Abstract: At a time when computing is so much a part of all of our lives, has incredible job opportunities, and is so empowering, most students graduate high school without having had […]
CIS Seminar: “Contesting Secure Development to Understand Security Mistakes”
Abstract: With the ongoing, frequent disclosure of the existence and exploitation of security vulnerabilities, one might wonder: How can we can build software that is more secure? In an attempt […]
PRiML Seminar: “Nonconvex Optimization Meets Statistics: A Few Recent Stories”
Recent years have seen a flurry of activity in solving statistical estimation and learning problems via nonconvex optimization. While conventional wisdom often takes a dim view of nonconvex optimization algorithms […]
CIS Seminar: “Learning in dynamic environments”
Abstract: In many online systems participants use data and algorithms to experiment and learn how to best use the system. Examples include traffic routing as well as online auctions. Game […]