The October 27th Galois Tech Talk will be delivered by Tanya Crenshaw, titled “How to choose between a screwdriver and a drill.”
- Date: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
- Time: 10:30am – 11:30am
- Location: Galois, Inc.421 SW 6th Ave. Suite 300(3rd floor of the Commonwealth Building)Portland, OR 97204
Abstract: Suppose you have two different algorithms to compute the same result. One is clearly safe. It is simple enough to verify. The other has more desirable features, but it is too complicated to verify. You want a system that can choose between these two algorithms while meeting its quality of service goals. This is the intuition behind Lui Sha’s Simplex Architecture. The intuition is simple, but its verification is not. Implementations of the Simplex Architecture are reactive systems whose properties are not always easy to express. In this talk, I’ll describe the history of Simplex, the challenges of verifying its safety properties, and a variety of approaches to modeling it, from an architecture description language to an executable specification language.Bio: Tanya L. Crenshaw is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Portland. She teaches courses in both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and conducts research into security for embedded systems. Before University of Portland, she worked for Wind River and Sharp Microelectronics and studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she completed her Ph.D. (Her personal web-page is at: http://kaju.dreamhosters.com/.)
Galois has been holding weekly technical seminars for several years on topics from functional programming, formal methods, compiler and language design, to cryptography, and operating system construction, with talks by many figures from the programming language and formal methods communities. The talks are open and free. An RSVP is not required, but feel free to contact the organizer with questions and comments.