| Date |
Topic |
Assignments |
Reading |
Non-required Reading |
| Thu 08/31 |
Course Intro
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HW 1 out
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1) How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper (Levin and Redell, SIGOPS OSR, 1983)
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You and Your Research(Hamming 1986)
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| Tue 09/05 |
Correctness
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HW1 in-class quiz
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1) Medical Devices, The Therac-25 (Levinson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers, 1995) lecture slides
2) The Rise of Worse is Better (Richard Gabriel, Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big, 1989)
3) On Being the Right Size (Haldane, 1928)
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The Wrong Patient (Chassin and Becher, American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine, 2002)
Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm (New York Times 2010 flash animation)
The Task of the Referee (Smith)
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| Thu 09/07 |
OS Design
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1) The UNIX Timesharing System (Ritchie and Thompson, SOSP, 1974) lecture slides other notes
2) Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management (Engler, Kaashoek, and O'Toole Jr., SOSP, 1995) lecture slides other notes
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1) The Linux Edge (Linus Torvalds, Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution 1999)
Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack (Hunt and Larus, SIGOPS OSR, 2007)
THE (Dijkstra, 1968)
Application performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems (Kaashoek, Engler, Ganger, Briceno, Hunt, Mazieres, Pinckney, Grimm, Jannotti, and Mackenzie, SOSP, 1997)
On Micro-Kernel Construction (Liedtke, SOSP, 1995) notes
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| Tue 09/12 |
OS Design
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1) End-to-end Arguments in System Design -- (through page 4) -- (Saltzer, Reed, and Clark, TOCS, 1984) lecture slides other notes
2) Threads and Input/Output in the Synthesis Kernel (Massalin and Pu, SOSP, 1989) lecture slides other notes
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Chapter 6 from Massalin's Thesis (1992)
Protection and the Control of Information Sharing in Multics (Saltzer, 1974)
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| Thu 09/14 |
mmap + page faults
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Lab 0 due
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Understanding the Linux Kernel (3rd Edition) Chapter 9, Process Address Space (skim) lecture slides
1) Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages (Navarro, Iyer, Druschel, and Cox, OSDI 2002) lecture slides
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Coordinated and Efficient Huge Page Management with Ingens
Machine-Independent Virtual Memory Management for Paged Uniprocessor and Multiprocessor Architectures (Rashid, Tevanian, Young, Golub, Baron, Black, Bolosky, and Chew, 1987)
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| Tue 09/19 |
Virtual machines
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1) Xen and Art of Virtualization (Barham, Dragovic, Fraser, Hand, Harris, Ho, Neugebaur, Pratt and Warfield, SOSP 2003). lecture notes other notes
2) Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? (Hand, Warfield, Fraser, Kotsovinos, and Magenheimer, HotOS 2005)
3) Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right? (Heiser, Uhlig, and LeVasseur, SIGOPS OSR, 2006)
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Intel Virtualization Technology (Uhlig, Neiger, Rodgers, Santoni, Martins, Anderson, Bennett, Kagi, Leung, and Smith, IEEE Computer 2005)
Intel Virtualization Technology (journal version) (Neiger, Santoni, Leung, Rodgers, Uhlig, Intel Technology Journal 2006)
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| Thu 09/21 |
Virtual machines
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1) Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server (Waldspurger, OSDI, 2002) lecture slides other notes
2) Arrakis: The Operating System is the Control Plane (Peter, Li, Zhang, Ports, Woos, Krishnamurthy, Anderson, Roscoe. OSDI, 2014) lecture notes other notes
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The Turtles Project: Design and Implementation of Nested Virtualization (Ben-Yehuda, Day, Dubitzky, Factor, Har’El, Gordon, Liguoriz, Wasserman, Yassour, OSDI 2010)
Unix as an Application Process (Golub, USENIX, 1990)
Compatibility is not transparency VMM detection myths and realities (Garfinkel, Adams, Warfield, and Franklin, HOTOS, 2007)
Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors (Bugnion, Devine, and Rosenblum, SOSP, 1997) notes
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| Tue 09/26 |
Lightweight Virtualization
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1) Rethinking the Library OS from the Top Down (Porter, Boyd-Wickizer, Howell, Olinsky, and Hunt, ASPLOS 2011) lecture slides
2) Jistu: just-in-time summoning of unikernels (Madhavapeddy, Leonard, Skjegstad, Gazagnaire, Sheets, Scott, Mortier, Chaudhry, Singh, Ludlam, Crowcroft, Leslie, NSDI 2015)
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Containers
Dune: Safe User-level Access to Privileged CPU Features (Belay, Bittau, Mashtizadeh, Terei, Mazieres, Kozyrakis, OSDI 2012)
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| Thu 09/28 |
File systems
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Lab 1 due
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Understanding the Linux Kernel (3rd Edition) Chapter 9, Process Address Space (skim)
1) Crash Consistency: FSCK and Journaling (Chapter 42 in Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces) (R. Arpaci-Dusseau, A. Arpaci-Dusseau)
2) A Fast File System for UNIX (McKusick, Joy, Leffler, and Fabry, TOCS, 1984) lecture slides other notes
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Disks from the Perspective of a File System (Marshall Kirk McKusick, ACM Queue, 2012)
Improving the Performance of fsck in FreeBSD (Marshall Kirk McKusick 2013)
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| Tue 10/03 |
File systems
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1) The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System (Rosenblum and Ousterhout, TOCS, 1992) lecture slides other notes
2) Ousterhout's critique of Seltzer's 1993 paper
3) Ousterhout's critique of Seltzer's 1995 paper
4) Seltzer's response to Ousterhout's critiques
5) Ousterhout's response to Seltzer
6) Log structured file systems: There's one in every SSD (Valerie Aurora (formerly Henson)) LWN 2009)
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An Introduction to Disk Drive Modeling (Ruemmler and Wilkes, 1994)
Soft Updates: A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast Filesystem (McKusick and Ganger, USENIX, 1999)
Generalized File System Dependences (Frost, Mammarella, Kohler, de los Reyes, Hovsepian, Matsuoka, and Zhang, SOSP 2007)
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| Thu 10/05 |
Networked file systems
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1) Design and Implementation of the SUN Network Filesystem (Sandberg, Goldberg, Kleiman, Walsh, and Lyon, USENIX, 1985) lecture slides other notes
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XDR: External Data Representation Standard (M. Eisler, Ed., RFC 4506, 2006) pdf txt
Remote Procedure Calls (Birrell and Nelson, TOCS, 1984) notes
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| Tue 10/10 |
Data center file systems
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1) The Google File System (Ghemawat, Gobioff, and Leung, SOSP, 2003) lecture slides other notes
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1) GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward (McKusick and Quinlan, ACM Queue, 2009)
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| Thu 10/12 |
Events and Threads
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Lab 2 due
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1) Experiences with Processes and Monitors in Mesa (Lampson and Redell, Communications of the ACM 23, 2, 1980) lecture slides notes
2) The "Double-Checked Locking is Broken" Declaration (Bacon, Bloch, Bogda, Click, Haahr, Lea, May, Maessen, Mitchell, Nilsen, Pugh, Sirer, 2004)
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JSR 133 (Java Memory Model FAQ by Manson and Goetz, 2004)
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| Tue 10/17 |
Events and Threads
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1) RaceTrack: Efficient Detection of Data Race Conditions via Adaptive Tracking (Yu, Rodeheffer, and Chen, SOSP, 2005) notes
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Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multithreaded Programs (Savage, Burrows, Nelson, Sobalvarro, Anderson, TOCS, 1997)
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| Thu 10/19 |
Exam
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Exam in class. faux-quiz compilation
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| Tue 10/24 |
Events and Threads
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1) Scheduler Activations (Anderson, Bershad, Lazowska, and Levy, TOCS, 1992) lecture slides
2) Introduction to Non-blocking IO (Kegel 1999)
3) Exchange between Linus Torvalds and David Patterson about parallelism Part 1
4) Part 2
5) Part 3
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Event-driven Programming for Robust Software (Dabek, Zeldovich, Kaashoek, Mazieres, and Morris, SIGOPS, 2002)
Why Events Are A Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers) (von Behren, Condit, and Brewer, HOTOS, 2003)
Cooperative Task Management without Manual Stack Management Adya, Howell, Theimer, Bolosky, Douceur, USENIX 2002)
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| Thu 10/26 |
Concurrency & Transactions
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Project Plan DUE
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Research Day!
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| Tue 10/31 |
Concurrency and Transactions Catch-up
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Ordering concurrent events and transactions in Principles of Transaction Processing (second edition by Philip A. Bernstein and Eric Newcomer 2009) book notes
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming (Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit, 2008) 3-3.6 book notes notes
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| Thu 11/02 |
Concurrency & Transactions
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Lab 3 due
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1) Operating System Transactions (Porter, Hofmann, Rossbach, Benn, and Witchel, SOSP, 2009) lecture slides
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Experiences with transactions in QuickSilver (Shmuck and Wyllie, SOSP 1991)
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| Tue 11/07 |
Datacenter computing
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Revised Project Plan DUE
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1) MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (Dean and Ghemawat, OSDI, 2004) lecture slides
2) MapReduce: A Major Step Backwards (DeWitt and Stonebreaker, 2008)
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A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis (Pavlo, Paulson, Rasin, Abadi, DeWitt, Madden, Stonebreaker, SIGMOD 2009)
BigTable: A system for Distributed Structured Storage (Chang, Dean, Ghemawat, Hsieh, Wallach, Burrows, Chandra, Fikes, and Gruber, OSDI, 2006) webnotes video
Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications (Peng and Dabek, OSDI 2010)
Brewer's CAP Theorem (Browne 2009)
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database (Corbett, Dean, Epstein, Fikes, Frost, Furman, Ghemawat, Gubarev, Heiser, Hochschild, Hsieh, Kanthak, Kogan, Li, Lloyd, Melnik, Mwaura, Nagle, Quinlan, Rao, Rolig, Saito, Szymaniak, Taylor, Wang and Woodford, OSDI, 2012)
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Avaiable Key-value Store
PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform (Cooper, Ramakrishnan, Srivastava, Silberstein, Bohannon, Jacobsen, Puz, Weaver, Yereni, VLDB, 2008)
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| Thu 11/09 |
Scale and Programmability
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1) Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing (Zaharia, Chowdhury, Das, Dave, Ma, McCauley, Franklin, Shenker, and Stoica, NSDI 2012) lecture slides
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DryadLINQ: a system for general-purpose distributed data-parallel computing using a high-level language (Yu, Isard, Fetterly, Budiu, Erlingsson, Gunda, Currey, OSDI 2008)
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| Tue 11/14 |
Scale and Programmability
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1) Dandelion: a compiler and runtime for heterogeneous systems (Rossbach, Yu, Currey, Martin, Fetterly, SOSP 2013) lecture slides
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Tango: distributed data structures over a shared log (Balakrishnan, Malkhi, Wobber, Wu, Prabhakaran, Wei, Davis, Rao, Zou, Zuck, SOSP 2013)
Naiad: a timely dataflow system (Murray, McSherry, Isaacs, Isard, Barham, Abadi, SOSP 2013)
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| Thu 11/16 |
Heterogeneity
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1) GPUfs: Integrating a file system with GPUs (Silberstein, Ford, Keidar, Witchel, ASPLOS 2013) lecture slides
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Helios: heterogeneous multiprocessing with satellite kernels (Nightingale, Hodson, McIlroy, Hawblitzel, Hunt, SOSP 2009)
Tapping into the fountain of CPUs: on operating system support for programmable devices (Weinsberg, Dolev, Anker, Ben-Yehuda, Wyckoff, ASPLOS 2008)
Pegasus: coordinated scheduling for virtualized accelerator-based systems (Gupta, Schwan, Tolia, Talwar, Ranganathan, ATC 2011)
TimeGraph: GPU scheduling for real-time multi-tasking environments
PTask: operating system abstractions to manage GPUs as compute devices (Rossbach, Currey, Silberstein, Ray, Witchel, SOSP 2011)
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| Tue 11/21 |
Security with Guest Lecturer Tyler Hunt
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1) Ryoan: A Distributed Sandbox for Untrusted Computation on Secret Data (Hunt, Zhu, Xu, Peter, Witchel)
2) 17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System (Steil, 2005) lecture notes
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Overshadow: a virtualization-based approach to retrofitting protection in commodity operating systems (Chen, Garfinkel, Lewis, Subrahmanyam, Waldspurger, Boneh, Dwoskin, Ports, ASPLOS 2008)
InkTag: Secure Applications on an Untrusted Operating System (Hofmann, Dunn, Kim, Lee, Witchel, ASPLOS 2013)
A VMM Security Kernel for the VAX Architecture (Karger, Zurko, Bonin, Mason, Kahn, IEEE Oakland Security, 1990)
Authentication in Distributed Systems : Theory and Practice (Lampson, Abadi, Burrows, and Wobber, TOCS, 1992) notes
A Logic of Authentication (Burrorws, Abadi, and Needham, TOCS, 1990) notes
Information flow control for standard OS abstractions (Krohn, Yip, Brodsky, Cliffer, Kaashoek, Kohler, and Morris, SOSP, 2007)
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| Thu 11/23 |
Thanksgiving Holiday
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| Tue 11/28 |
Security and Non-volatile storage
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1) Adapting software fault isolation to contemporary CPU architectures (Sehr, Muth, Biffle, Khimenko, Pasko, Schimpf, Yee, Chen, 2010)
2) Mnemosyne: Lightweight Persistent Memory (Volos, Tack, Swift, ASPLOS 2011) lecture slides
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Phase-Change Technology and the Future of Main Memory (Lee, Zhou, Zhao, Ipek, Mutlu, Burger, IEEE Micro Top Picks 2010)
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| Thu 11/30 |
Security
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1) The Many Faces of Systems Research - And How To Evaluate Them (Brown, Chanda, Farrow, Fedorova, Maniatis, Scott, HotOS 2005)
2) The Confused Deputy (Hardy, SIGOPS OSR, 1988) lecture notes
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A Decentralized Model for Information Flow Control (Myers and Liskov, SOSP, 1997)
Laminar: Practical Fine-Grained Decentralized Information Flow Control (Roy, Setty, Kilzer, Shmatikov, Witchel, PLDI 2009)
Improving Application Security with Data Flow Assertions (Yip, Wang, Zeldovich, and Kaashoek, SOSP, 2009)
Why Cryptosystems Fail (Anderson, 1994)
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| Tue 12/05 |
Exam 2
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Exam in class. faux-quiz compilation
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Hints for Computer System Design (Lampson, SIGOPS OSR, 1983)
A Note on the Confinement Problem (Lampson, Communications of ACM, 1973)
Reflections on Trusting Trust <(Thompson, Turing Award Lecture, 1984)
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| Thu 12/07 |
Project presentations
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In-class Presentation
Project DUE
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| Tue 12/12 |
Additional reading
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Linearizability: A Correctness Condition for Concurrent Objects (Herlihy and Wing, TOPLAS, 1990)
Klee: Unassisted and Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests for Complex Systems Programs (Cadar, Dunbar, and Engler, OSDI, 2008)
A few billion lines of code later: using static analysis to find bugs in the real world (Bessey, Block, Chelf, Chou, Fulton, Hallem, Henri-Gros, Kamsky, McPeak, Engler, CACM v53 no 2, 2010)
Weird things that surprise academics trying to commercialize a static checking tool (Chou, Chelf, Hallem, Hanri-Gros, Fulton, Unangst, Zak, and Engler, SPIN, 2005)
EROS: A Fast Capability System (Shapiro, Smith, and Farber, SOSP, 1999)
Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX (Watson, Anderson, Laurie, Kennaway, USENIX security 2010) < a href=lectures/capsicum.pdf>notes
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