We present an algorithm, WITCH, that learns to detect spam hosts or pages on the web. Unlike most other approaches, it simultaneously exploits the stru...

Together, Michael Thompson's gadgets reach millions of users and he's here to talk about his experiences developing them, how people use them, what wor...

The advent of multicore processors has generated profound debate on the merits of writing parallel programs with threads and locks. Nonetheless, for ma...

Come learn how you can easily build your very own automated Christmas light show. I'll present details about the hardware and software, including diffe...

This talk will cover the background of sender domain authentication in general and DKIM in particular, details of how DKIM works, and other issues that...

Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in C...

Service-based systems are increasingly being used for deploying large-scale applications in mission-critical environments. In such a system, applicatio...

Existing systems often do a poor job of meeting the principle of least privilege. I will discuss how object capability systems and language-based metho...

Internet applications currently have a choice between stream and datagram transport abstractions. Datagrams efficiently support small transactions an...

Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats d...

In this talk we will discuss the issues involved in building industrial-strength performance tools. We first discuss the requirements for such tools, a...

After three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, we are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing,...