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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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Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics
Customer preferences for products are drifting over time. Product perception and popularity are constantly changing as new selection emerges. Similarly, customer...
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Creativity Helps Influence Prediction Precision
The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in machine learning and data mining, with significant advances in terms of...
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Structural Characterizations of Schema-Mapping Languages
Information integration is a key challenge faced by all major organizations, business and governmental ones alike. Two research...
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Technical Perspective: Schema Mappings: Rules For Mixing Data
When you search for products on Amazon.com, you are seeing results from thousands of vendor databases that were developed before Amazon existed. Did you ever wonder...
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Native Client: A Sandbox For Portable, -Untrusted X86 Native Code
Native Client is a sandbox for untrusted x86 native code. It aims to give browser-based applications the computational performance of native applications without...
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Technical Perspective: Native Client: A Clever Alternative
Google's Native Client is an intriguing new system that allows untrusted x86 binaries to run safely on bare metal.
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