Computer Systems Colloquium (Spring 2007)

In this talk, Ian Goldberg discusses "Off-the-Record Messaging" (OTR), a widely used software tool for secure and private instant messaging. I will outline some of the properties of Useful Security and Privacy Technologies. (May 23, 2007)

This presentation explores technology challenges in IC nanomanufacturing and reviews the most likely directions needed to sustain the pervasive growth of semiconductor content. (April 4, 2007)

Jerry and Todd discuss experiences, challenges, and trends in community and democracy supporting software, highlighting examples such as the East Palo Alto web portal EPA.Net and the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS).

Transactional memory is a computational model in which threads synchronize by optimistic, lock-free transactions. This talk will survey the area, with a focus on open research problems. (May 2, 2007)

In this talk, we review a history of programming paradigms along with programming models as well as discuss workloads and subsequent programming issues from current market growth segments. (May 9, 2007)

Stream programming is a practical approach to overcoming these challenges that involves a partnership between the programmer and the compiler. (May 16, 2007)

In this talk, Raj Amirtharajah gives an overview of energy harvesting mechanisms, describe circuit and system microarchitecture techniques for energy harvesting wireless sensors.

Detecting global abuse patterns with realtime black lists, spamtraps and honey pots. Understanding what your network is doing to the rest of the community is difficult, we discuss how to use our tools to understand your network. (June 6, 2007)