Software Research Group Lunch

Computer Science Department, Stanford University

When/where: Fridays at 12pm in the Theory Lounge in wing 4B of the Gates building

Fall 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Topic Lunch buyer
Sep 25 (no speaker) Welcome back to Stanford
Oct 2 Kathleen Fisher Incremental Learning of System Log Formats Nathan Bronson
Oct 9 Mooly Sagiv Peter Hawkins & Adam Oliner
Oct 16 Bill McCloskey Combining Universally Quantified Domains Eric Schkufza
Oct 23 Philip Guo Practical incremental computation for scientists Mike Bauer
Oct 30 Hassen Saidi (from SRI) Challenges in analyzing binary programs Eric Schkufza
Nov 6 Arthur (from kx.com) k language. short programs. Philip Guo
Nov 13 Brian Hackett Overflow checking in Firefox Eric Schkufza
Nov 20 Shachar Itzhaky Abstracting Heap Hierarchy Adam Oliner
Nov 27 No meeting Thanksgiving recess
Dec 4 Nathan Bronson Beyond Transactional Boosting
Dec 11

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Spring 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Topic Lunch buyer
Apr 3 Organizational meeting Nathan Bronson
Apr 10 Brian Hackett Data structure invariants in Linux sysfs Cristian Cadar
Apr 17 Joel Brandt Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code Adam Oliner
Apr 24 Adam Oliner Community Epidemic Detection with Syzygy Jiwon Seo
May 1 Philip Guo Automatic Creation of SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Attacks Peter Boonstoppel
May 8 Matthew Nasielski Querying distributed social networks with Datalog Sudheendra Hangal
May 15 Sudheendra Hangal Automatic Dimension Inference and Checking for Object-Oriented Programs Mike Bauer
May 22 Nathan Bronson Trust but Verify: Dynamically Enforcing Purity for Implicit Parallelism Eric Schkufza
May 29 Philip Guo Linux kernel developer responses to static analysis bug reports Isil Dillig
Jun 5

Winter 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Topic Lunch buyer
Jan 9 Alex Aiken Measuring Empirical Computational Complexity Adam Oliner
Jan 16 Nathan Bronson Feedback-Directed Barrier Optimization in a Strongly Isolated STM Philip Guo
Jan 23 (lunch cancelled, no speaker)
Jan 30 Bill Pugh (U. Maryland) Measuring the utility of software defect detection tools Peter Boonstoppel
Feb 6 Philip Guo Some issues with improving coverage for symbolic execution Mike Bauer
Feb 13 Pat Hanrahan Thoughts on Data Parallel Programming Languages Chris Unkel
Feb 20 Cristian Cadar EXE: Effective Checking of Complex Software (job talk) Eric Schkufza
Feb 27 Peter Hawkins Proof of decidability for the monadic second order theory of trees Syed Ahbar Mehdi
Mar 6 Jiwon Seo Enforcing security policies in Python by extending the type system John Clark
Mar 13 Alex Aiken Informal talk on the Sequoia project Nathan Bronson

Fall 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Topic Lunch buyer
Sept 26 Alex Aiken Sequoia: Programming the Memory Hierarchy Cristian Cadar
Oct 3 Adam Oliner Studying Systems as Artifacts (In Gates 498) Philip Guo
Oct 10 Philip Guo Experiences in teaching programming to smart non-CS people (In Gates 498) Isil Dillig
Oct 17 (lunch cancelled, no speaker)
Oct 24 Collin Jackson research in web browser security Adam Oliner
Oct 31 (lunch cancelled, no speaker)
Nov 7 Peter Hawkins Ongoing work in shape analysis Chris Unkel
Nov 14 Chris Unkel Mike Bauer
Nov 21 Cristian Cadar KLEE: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs Peter Hawkins
Nov 28 No meeting (Thanksgiving Recess)
Dec 5 Adam Oliner Alert Detection in System Logs Philip Guo

Spring 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Topic Lunch
May 30 Isil and Tom Dillig Sound, Complete, and Scalable Path-Sensitive Analysis Isil Dillig
May 23 Isil and Tom Dillig The CLOSER: Automating Resource Management in Java Tom Dillig
May 16 Suhabe Bugrara Verifying the Safety of User Pointer Dereferences Eric Smith
May 9 Sanjay Radia (Yahoo) Hadoop Distributed File System Sudheendra Hangal
May 2 Mark Gabel (UC Davis) Symbolic Mining of Temporal Specifications Daniel Dunbar
April 25 No lunch (no speaker)
April 18 No lunch (no speaker)
April 11 Peter Hawkins Hierarchical Shape Graphs Adam Oliner
April 4 Adam Oliner A Scientific Approach to Systems Reliability Philip Guo

Winter 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Topic Lunch
March 21 Cristian Cadar RWset: Attacking Path Explosion in Constrained-Based Test Generation Cristian Cadar
March 14 Monica Lam The POMI project: Programmable, Open, Mobile Internet Peter Hawkins
March 7 No lunch (no speaker)
February 29 Kate Moore (UW) High-Level, Small-Step Operational Semantics for Software Transactions Chris Unkel
February 22 Benjamin Livshits (MSR) Addressing Web 2.0 Application Development Challenges Michael Martin
February 15 Nickolai Zeldovich Building secure systems around information flow control Suhabe Bugrara

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