Discolab Reading Group


Overview

The Discolab Reading Group is a weekly informal seminar for discussing research papers, emerging problems, and interesting issues in Computer systems and security.

Participation

This time we are going to select a research group(or a very specific topic) and read 2 or 3 papers of that group each week. The only requirement for joining the group and attending is that you will have to read the papers for each week, and present papers on some of the weeks as we rotate presenters.

Location & Time: Core B, 3:00pm on Thursday

Schedule

June 10 Paper 1: Speculative Execution In A Distributed File System, SOSP 05.
Presenter: Liu
Paper 2: Rethink the Sync, OSDI 06
Presenter: Shakeel
Paper 3: Parallelizing Security Checks on Commodity Hardware, ASPLOS 08
Presenter: Nishat
June 17 Paper 1: Safe Kernel Extensions Without Run-Time Checking, OSDI 96.
Presenter: Rezwana
Paper 2: Proof-Carrying Code, POPL 97
Presenter: Shakeel
June 24 Paper 1: The Design and Implementation of a Certifying Compiler, PLDI 98
Presenter: Liu
Paper 2: CCured: Type-Safe Retrofitting of Legacy Code, POPL 02
Presenter: Amruta
July 8 Paper 1: Dingo: Taming Device Drivers, Eurosys 2009.
Presenter: Rezwana
Paper 2: Automatic Device Driver Synthesis with Termite, SOSP 2009
Presenter: Shakeel
July 15 Paper 1: Shield: Vulnerability Driven Network Filters for Preventing Known Vulnerability Exploits, Sigcomm 2004
Presenter: Amruta
Paper 2: NetShield: Massive Semantics-based Vulnerability Signature Matching for High-speed Networks, Sigcomm 2010
Presenter: Liu
July 22 Paper 1: Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code, Oakland 2009.
Presenter: Shakeel
Paper 2: Leveraging Legacy Code to Deploy Desktop Applications on the Web, OSDI 2008
Presenter: Amruta
July 30 Paper 1: VEX: Vetting Browser Extensions For Security Vulnerabilities, Usenix Security 2010
Presenter: Nishat
Paper 2: Securing Script-Based Extensibility in Web Browsers, Usenix Security 2010
Presenter: Rezwana
August 5 Paper 1: Evaluating SFI for a CISC Architecture, Usenix Security 2006.
Presenter: Amruta
Paper 2: Adapting Software Fault Isolation to Contemporary CPU Architecture, Usenix Security 2010
Presenter: Shakeel