CIS Seminar: “Breaking and Building End-to-End Encrypted Systems”
Abstract Today’s computer systems and their owners fail to protect data. Exacerbating this are new threats stemming from the rise of cloud computing. The consequences are dire: sensitive information like […]
CIS Seminar: “Risk-Aware Machine Learning at Scale”
Abstract: In recent years, machine learning has seen rapid advances with increasingly large scale and complex data modalities, including processing images, natural language and more. As a result, applications of […]
CIS Seminar: One Size Doesn’t Fit Anyone: Tailoring Digital Tools for Personal Health Journeys
Abstract Personal technologies for everyday health management have the potential to transform healthcare by empowering individuals to engage in their own care, scaffolding access to critical information, and supporting patient-centered […]
CIS Seminar: “User Generated Content: Opportunities to Inform Healthcare”
Abstract When individuals post to social media or use wearable devices, data generated through these everyday interactions with technology reveal a great deal about behaviors that influence health in ways […]
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 […]