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

[Bexley Hall]

Hi,

Are these meetings open to The General Public?  Or,
just "members only"?

--don

--- Chris Niswander <cn.tfug.account at bitboost.com>
wrote:

> 
> 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.
> >
> >--------
> >
> >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. 
> 
> 
> 
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