In several Java VMs, strings consist of two separate objects: metadata such as the string length are stored in the actual string object, while the string characters are stored in ...
We describe Instruction-Set Randomization (ISR), a general approach for safeguarding systems against any type of code-injection attack. We apply Kerckhoffs' principle to creat...
Stephen W. Boyd, Gaurav S. Kc, Michael E. Locasto,...
In practice, it is quite difficult to write correct multithreaded programs due to the potential for unintended and nondeterministic interference between parallel threads. A funda...
Graphics processing units (GPUs) provide a low cost platform for accelerating high performance computations. The introduction of new programming languages, such as CUDA and OpenCL...
Amir Hormati, Mehrzad Samadi, Mark Woh, Trevor N. ...
For decades, the design and implementation of arrays in programming languages has reflected a natural tension between productivity and performance. Recently introduced HPCS langua...