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

[erich]

See:

           http://www.aztcs.org/members/benefits.shtml

I think that will answer your question. I have off that day I think
I'll go.

                                                       Erich
             
Bexley Hall wrote:

>Hi,
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>Are these meetings open to The General Public?  Or,
>just "members only"?
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>--don
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>--- Chris Niswander <cn.tfug.account at bitboost.com>
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>>I think this will interest some people.
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>>>Subject: Developer's SIG on Tuesday, March 6 --
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>>Binary Rewriting and
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>>> Automatic Code Compaction of an OS Kernel
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>>>We've been fortunate to land Saumya Debray, a
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>>professor at UA, for 
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>>>the Tuesday, March 6 meeting of the Developer's
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>>SIG.  This promises 
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>>>to be an interesting presentation about a leading
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>>edge topic.  Below 
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>>>is a blurb that you can find at
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>>http://devsig.editme.com, too.
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>>>--------
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>>>Binary Rewriting and Automatic Code Compaction of
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>>an OS Kernel
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>>>The talk will discuss our work on reducing the
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>>memory footprint of 
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>>>general purpose operating system kernels (we use
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>>Linux as an example) 
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>>>for use in embedded systems.  We'll begin with a
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>>discussion of binary 
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>>>rewriting and some of the peculiar challenges of
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>>applying it to an OS 
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>>>kernel.  The talk will discuss how we address these
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>>challenges and 
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>>>present experimental results.  Finally, I'll talk
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>>about some of our 
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>>>ongoing research on this topic.
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>>>About the speaker:
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>>>Saumya Debray is Professor of Computer Science at
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>>the University of 
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>>>Arizona.  His research interests are in programming
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>>language 
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>>>implementation, specifically in binary rewriting
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>>and its applications 
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>>>to systems software optimization, software
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>>security, and malware 
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>>>analysis.  He received his B. Tech in Electronics
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>>Engg from IIT 
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>>>Kharagpur (India), in 1981; and his PhD in Computer
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>>science from SUNY 
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>>>Stony Brook in 1986.  He has been on the Computer
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>>Science faculty at 
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>>>UA since 1986.
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>>>From the Developer's SIG website at
>>http://devsig.editme.com :
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>>>WHERE
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>>>Headquarters of the Tucson Computer Society
>>>4444 E. Grant Road
>>>Tucson, AZ 85750
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>>>WHEN
>>>	First Tuesday of each month
>>>7:00 - 9:00 PM
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>>>Dinner
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>>>Buddy's Grill 4821 E. Grant Rd.
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>>>Before the regular meeting we meet for dinner at
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>>5:30. Our dinners are
>>quite fun (for programmers). Try to make it. 
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