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ASPLOS is going quite well so far. There were a few really interesting papers (see below). My talk went well, if I may say so myself... the slides are online.

Papers y'all should read:

Overshadow: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Retrofitting Protection in Commodity Operating Systems - Protecting an application from a malicious OS sounds ( Read more... )

Here's a short list of posters from the ASPLOS '08 combined opening reception and poster session that I found particularly interesting ( Read more... )

I'm in Seattle this week for ASPLOS and VEE. My hotel room has a balcony
with a view:


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Just registered for ASPLOS '08 and VEE '08, both to take place in Seattle on the first week of March. If you'll be there, make sure to say hi!

The ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review special issue on work from IBM Research has hit the archives and is choke full of goodness. Unfortunately you need an ACM subscription or SIGOPS membership to access it.

Copies of my papers that appear in the issue can be found on the publications page as usual. These are "Vigilant---Out-of-band Detection of ( Read more... )

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While walking the streets of Rome a month ago, I couldn't stop thinking of Bernard Cornwell's Arthur series of books. For some reason, experiencing the Roman Colosseum first hand and listening to the (excellent) tour guide tell gory tales of games and slaughter, brought the Arthur books - which I've read and re-read, but not in recent years - ( Read more... )

ASPLOS '08 program is online. Looks exciting.

The Operating Systems Review special issue on Systems Work from IBM Research should be going to press any day. It features an editorial, two papers and an introduction by me, and lots of excellent papers from IBM Research and elsewhere ( Read more... )

Back from Rome. It's amazing how rested and ready to take on the world
I feel, after only three days.

I may write a summary later; in the mean time, as usual, Orna does it better.


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