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ACSAC
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Protecting Commodity Operating System Kernels from Vulnerable Device Drivers
Device drivers on commodity operating systems execute with kernel privilege and have unfettered access to kernel data structures. Several recent attacks demonstrate that such poor...
Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael M. Swift, C...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
O' game, can you feel my frustration?: improving user's gaming experience via stresscam
One of the major challenges of video game design is to have appropriate difficulty levels for users in order to maximize the entertainment value of the game. Game players may lose...
Chang Yun, Dvijesh Shastri, Ioannis Pavlidis, Zhig...
PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Dynamic software updates: a VM-centric approach
Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
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PLDI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Trace-based just-in-time type specialization for dynamic languages
Dynamic languages such as JavaScript are more difficult to compile than statically typed ones. Since no concrete type information is available, traditional compilers need to emit...
Andreas Gal, Brendan Eich, Mike Shaver, David Ande...
SENSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
TOSThreads: thread-safe and non-invasive preemption in TinyOS
Many threads packages have been proposed for programming wireless sensor platforms. However, many sensor network operating systems still choose to provide an eventdriven model, du...
Kevin Klues, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jeongyeup Paek,...