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Nancy Baym's Talk is Thursday
by Ginny Hogan 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Previous mail has Nancy Talk on Wed. It is Thursday at 4:30pm - Computer Science Room 105 -

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Speaker Wednesday
by Ginny Hogan 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Nancy Baym, University of Kansas, will present her talk, "Understanding The Networked Audience" Wed. Nov 29th 4:15PM, Computer Science Room 105 -

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K Makarychev FPO
by Melissa M Lawson 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Konstantin Makarychev will present his FPO on Tuesday November 27 at 3PM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Moses Charikar, advisor; Boaz Barak and Assaf Naor (NYU), readers; Bernard Chazelle and Bob Tarjan, nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Quadratic Forms on Graphs and their Applications", is on display in room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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C Myers FPO - change of location
by Melissa M Lawson 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Chad's FPO has been moved from the CS building to room 280, Carl Icahn Labs. The date and time remain the same - Wednesday November 21, 10AM. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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LOCATION CHANGE Monday Nov 19: Gang Tan
by Andrew W. Appel 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Change of location (ROOM 402) for Gang Tan's talk this coming Monday noon. Note that we will start promptly at noon, to leave time for a talk at 1:30 (in 301) by Stephanie Weirich of U. Penn, on "Engineering Formal Metatheory". Location: Computer Science room 402 Monday, Nov 19th. Time: 12 noon. LUNCH PROVIDED (for the first 20 people...) Speaker: Gang Tan, Boston College Title: Security Analysis of the Native Code in the JDK Abstract: It is well known that the use of native methods in Java defeats Java's guarantees of safety and security, which is why the default policy of Java applets, for example, cannot load non-local native code. However, there is already a large amount of trusted native C/C++ code that comprises a significant portion of the Java Development Kit (JDK). We have carried out an empirical study on the security of the native code in Sun's JDK 1.6. By applying static analysis tools and manual inspection, we have identified in this security-critical code previously undiscovered vulnerabilities. We propose a taxonomy of vulnerabilities to classify patterns of errors, and discuss new patterns that arise in the interaction between Java and the native code. We also discuss remedies to address the threats posed by the native code. We have implemented a system, SafeJNI, which can guarantee that the failure of the native code does not corrupt the Java state. We have also proposed ILEA, which is a general framework for performing inter-language analysis across Java and C. By partially compiling C code into Java code, ILEA enables existing analyses on Java to also understand the C code.

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C Myers FPO
by Melissa M Lawson 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Chad Myers will present his FPO on Wednesday November 21 at 10AM in Room 402. The members of his committee are: Olga Troyanskaya, advisor; Kai Li and David Botstein (Genomics Inst), readers; S.Y. Kung (ELE) and Leonid Kruglyak (MOL), nonreaders. A copy of his thesis, "Context-sensitive Methods for Learning from Genomic Data" is on display in Room 310. Everyone is invited to attend his talk.

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Security Lunch / PLC Seminar Monday Nov 19: Gang Tan
by Andrew W. Appel 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

One week from today, on Monday Nov 19th, Prof. Gang Tan of Boston College (PhD Princeton 2005) will give a talk at noon on how to find security holes in JVMs -- in particular, in the interaction between native (C) methods and Java code -- AND how to prove the absence of holes. Location: Small Auditorium Monday, Nov 19th. Time: 12 noon. LUNCH PROVIDED (for the first 20 people...) Speaker: Gang Tan, Boston College Title: Security Analysis of the Native Code in the JDK Abstract: It is well known that the use of native methods in Java defeats Java's guarantees of safety and security, which is why the default policy of Java applets, for example, cannot load non-local native code. However, there is already a large amount of trusted native C/C++ code that comprises a significant portion of the Java Development Kit (JDK). We have carried out an empirical study on the security of the native code in Sun's JDK 1.6. By applying static analysis tools and manual inspection, we have identified in this security-critical code previously undiscovered vulnerabilities. We propose a taxonomy of vulnerabilities to classify patterns of errors, and discuss new patterns that arise in the interaction between Java and the native code. We also discuss remedies to address the threats posed by the native code. We have implemented a system, SafeJNI, which can guarantee that the failure of the native code does not corrupt the Java state. We have also proposed ILEA, which is a general framework for performing inter-language analysis across Java and C. By partially compiling C code into Java code, ILEA enables existing analyses on Java to also understand the C code.

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Announcement: Princeton Research Symposium 2007 -- Sat, 11/17
by Melissa M Lawson 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

You are invited to attend this year's Princeton Research Symposium! Please extend this invitation to any colleagues, friends, and family in and outside of the University that you think would be interested in this event. This symposium is open to all -- from high school students to professors! PRS 2007 is a one-day event showcasing Princeton's research to the University and area community. Princeton researchers will deliver talk and poster presentations throughout the day, specifically tailored for an educated but non-specialist audience. Professor Ed Felten will be delivering the keynote faculty talk on the very timely topic of "Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity". come hear presentations from: classics . ecology and evolutionary biology . electrical engineering . physics . history . molecular biology . applied and computational math . astrophysical sciences . politics . chemistry . chemical engineering . atmospheric and oceanic studies . psychology . computer science . operations research and financial engineering . plasma physics . geosciences . comparative literature While attendance is free, we encourage you to register online, preferably by Sunday, 11/11. For more information, please visit http://www.princeton.edu/~prs Saturday November 17, 2007 Princeton Research Symposium 2007 When: 8:30a-6pm Where: Friend Center, Princeton University Detailed schedule: 8:30a-9a: breakfast 9-9:30a: opening talk: Kerry Walk, Director of the Princeton Writing Program 9:30a-11:30a: talk session 11:30a-2:15p: poster session/lunch 2:15-3:45p: talk session 3:45p-4p: break 4-5p: keynote: Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Director of the Center of Information Technology Policy "Electronic Voting: Danger and Opportunity" 5-6p: awards/reception Sponsored by Graduate School, Pace Center, McGraw Center, Graduate Student Government Events Board, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni, and the Princeton Writing Program Contact: Shin-Yi Lin (shinyi(a)princeton.edu) and Lesley Chuang (lchuang(a)princeton.edu)

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cookies
by Ginny Hogan 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Cookies are now available in the tea room -

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Refreshments -
by Ginny Hogan 07 Nov '07

07 Nov '07

Tea will be at 3:30 today followed by Yuanyuan Zhou's talk, Taming Wild Concurrent Progreams starting at 4:15pm, Computer Science room 105 -

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