The software reading group webpage for Winter 2008: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~kaushikv/srg_winter_2008.html

Fall 2007 software reading group

General information

The software reading group will be meeting in Fall 2007 to discuss various papers of interest. Meetings are scheduled for Fridays from 11am-12pm, and lunch is provided.

Web page and mailing list

The full schedule and links to papers will be posted on this page. Additionally, all announcements are sent to the software reading group mailing list. Please contact me (kaushikv at eecs dot umich dot edu) if you would like to be added.

With SOSP 2007 coming up in October, we will focus papers from the program. Visit SOSP program (PDFs) -- I'll keep it updated as more papers are posted online.

Schedule

Date Room Paper Presenter
August 30, 2007
CSE 3725 /* iComment: Bugs or Bad Comments? */.
Lin Tan (University of Illinois), Ding Yuan (University of Illinois), Gopal Krishna (University of Illinois), and Yuanyuan Zhou (University of Illinois).
SOSP 2007
Dan Peek
September 14, 2007
CSE 4941 Protection and Communication Abstractions for Web Browsers in MashupOS.
Helen J. Wang (Microsoft Research), Xiaofeng Fan (Microsoft Research), Jon Howell (Microsoft Research), and Collin Jackson (Stanford University).
SOSP 2007
Anthony Nicholson
September 21, 2007
CSE 4901 Autonomously Secure Disks Kevin Butler
September 28, 2007
CSE 3725 Bouncer: Securing Software by Blocking Bad Input.
Mannuel Costa (Microsoft Research), Miguel Castro (Microsoft Research), Lidong Zhou (Microsoft Research), Lintao Zhang (Microsoft Research), and Marcus Peinado (Microsoft).
SOSP 2007
Kaushik Veeraraghavan
October 5, 2007
CSE 3725 AutoBash: Improving Configuration Management with Operating System Causality Analysis.
Ya-Yunn Su (University of Michigan), Mona Attariyan (University of Michigan), and Jason Flinn (University of Michigan).
SOSP 2007 (Practice talk)
Ya-Yunn (Jodie) Su
October 26, 2007
CSE 3725 PeerReview: Practical Accountability for Distributed Systems.
Arndreas Haeberlen (MPI-SWS), Petr Kouznetsov (MPI-SWS), and Peter Druschel (MPI-SWS).
SOSP 2007
Mona Attariyan
November 2, 2007
CSE 3725 Improved Error Reporting for Software that Uses Black Box Components
Jungwoo Ha, Chris Rossbach, Indrajit Roy, Jason Davis, Hany Ramadan, David Chen and Emmett Witchel
University of Texas, Austin
PLDI 2007
Ashlesha Joshi
November 9, 2007
CSE 4901 SpyProxy: Execution-based Detection of Malicious Web Content
Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Damien Deville, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy
University of Washington
USENIX Security 2007
Jon Oberheide
November 16, 2007
CSE 3725 Protecting Browsers From DNS Rebinding Attacks
Collin Jackson, Adam Barth, Andrew Bortz, Weidong Shao, and Dan Boneh
Stanford University
CCS '07
Dan Fabbri
November 23, 2007 Thanksgiving break
November 30, 2007
CSE 4901 Counteracting Discrimination against Network Traffic
Ioannis Avramopoulos, Jennifer Rexford, Dimitris Syrivelis, Spyros Lalis
Princeton University
Tech Report
Ying Zhang
December 7, 2007
CSE 3725 Internet Routing Resilience to Failures: Analysis and Implications
Jian Wu, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao and Kang G. Shin
University of Michigan
CoNEXT '07 (Practice talk)
Jian Wu
December 14, 2007
CSE 4901 A Data-Oriented (and Beyond) Network Architecture
M. Chowla, T. Koponen, K. Lakshminarayanan, A. Ramachandran, A. Tavakoli, Scott Shenker, I. Stoica
University of California, Berkeley
SIGCOMM '07
Sushant Sinha
November 23, 2007 Thanksgiving break

Volunteers

We need volunteers to present papers. Please email me (kaushikv at eecs dot umich dot edu) if interested.

Links

Here are some recent/upcoming conferences:
21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007)
16th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '07)
2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '07)
5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '07)

Archive

Summer 2007 software reading group
Winter 2007 software reading group
Fall 2006 software reading group