[Tfug] On Tuesday, March 6 -- Binary Rewriting and Automatic Code Compaction of an OS Kernel, using Linux as an example

[Chris Niswander]

I think this will interest some people.

>Subject: Developer's SIG on Tuesday, March 6 -- Binary Rewriting and
>  Automatic Code Compaction of an OS Kernel
>
>We've been fortunate to land Saumya Debray, a professor at UA, for 
>the Tuesday, March 6 meeting of the Developer's SIG.  This promises 
>to be an interesting presentation about a leading edge topic.  Below 
>is a blurb that you can find at http://devsig.editme.com, too.
>
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>Binary Rewriting and Automatic Code Compaction of an OS Kernel
>
>The talk will discuss our work on reducing the memory footprint of 
>general purpose operating system kernels (we use Linux as an example) 
>for use in embedded systems.  We'll begin with a discussion of binary 
>rewriting and some of the peculiar challenges of applying it to an OS 
>kernel.  The talk will discuss how we address these challenges and 
>present experimental results.  Finally, I'll talk about some of our 
>ongoing research on this topic.
>
>About the speaker:
>
>Saumya Debray is Professor of Computer Science at the University of 
>Arizona.  His research interests are in programming language 
>implementation, specifically in binary rewriting and its applications 
>to systems software optimization, software security, and malware 
>analysis.  He received his B. Tech in Electronics Engg from IIT 
>Kharagpur (India), in 1981; and his PhD in Computer science from SUNY 
>Stony Brook in 1986.  He has been on the Computer Science faculty at 
>UA since 1986.

>From the Developer's SIG website at http://devsig.editme.com :

>WHERE
>
>Headquarters of the Tucson Computer Society
>4444 E. Grant Road
>Tucson, AZ 85750
>
>WHEN
>	First Tuesday of each month
>7:00 - 9:00 PM
>
>Dinner
>
>Buddy's Grill 4821 E. Grant Rd.
>
>Before the regular meeting we meet for dinner at 5:30. Our dinners are
quite fun (for programmers). Try to make it.