Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024
Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.
Preventing side-channels in the cloud
Sophisticated side-channel attacks present new security challenges for cloud providers. Learn how Microsoft is exploring defenses against emerging attacks with principled microarchitectural isolation:
Abstracts: November 5, 2024
Researchers Chris Hawblitzel and Jay Lorch share how progress in programming languages and verification approaches are bringing bug-free software within reach. Their work on the Rust verification tool Verus won the Distinguished Artifact Award at…
Abstracts: November 4, 2024
In their 2024 SOSP paper, researchers explore a common—though often undertested—software system issue: retry bugs. Research manager Shan Lu and PhD candidate Bogdan Stoica share how they’re combining traditional program analysis and LLMs to address the…