Just got done sending the decision notifications for USENIX ATC '24. To be held in Santa Clara July 10-12, jointly with OSDI. PC chairing with Yiying Zhang .

With acceptance of 77/488 = 15.8%, I sent happy mails to 348 recipients and sad mails to 1526.

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Want to work for an innovative startup in cloud computing? In an academic environment? Have the right skillset? Then apply. Looking for front end and back end engineers for Summer and for Fall.
#startups #SoftwareEngineering Purdue University

And the final takeaways from Mike (Reiter). Useful for security researchers and security practitioners. At the Purdue ECE and CS Joint Seminar.

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Do site administrators act on reports that their site’s password database has been breached? Mike (Reiter) talking of a study from 2017 that appeared at IMC.

Plus an avenue to tackle the problem.

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Mike Reiter, Duke, giving a talk at a joint ECE, CS forum “When research comes full circle: A missed opportunity and what to learn from it”. It turns out he means passwords, the good old chestnut of security.

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Kernels of 'what-we-do' revving up an otherwise gray-sky day! From crypto math to distribution shifts to something-for-bird-watchers to diffusion models, thanks to Saurabh Bagchi PurdueCrisp, we were able to wax eloquent with Google's Jeff Dean Purdue University Purdue Engineering

Livestream of Jeff Dean’s current talk on Important trends in ML is at:

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View at the Purdue Engineering mall. Thousands gazing up at a surreally dark sun.

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Do you like a walled Apple garden or one where the wind is free to come and go at its will? My technologist's take on the question, triggered by the recent US DOJ lawsuit against Apple.

distantwhispersblog.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/a-w…

#Apple #DOJ #ios

“Shaping AI in the Physical World: Emerging Challenges & Opportunities”. Join in to Purdue IPAI panel with Amazon, Argonne, CAT, Southwest leaders & Purdue faculty. I moderate. Mar 26, 12-1.
bit.ly/ipai0324
Purdue University @Amazon Argonne National Lab CaterpillarInc Southwest Airlines

𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗵?
We are on screens on all the time, as humans in a technologically developed society.
(1) What constitutes screen time?
(2) How much screen time is too much?
My subjective take.
wp.me/p8NfX4-oi

Boilermaker Circuit, the recruiting event for ECE, happened yesterday with 16 Corporate Partners, 50+ representatives from them, 500+ students. Let's keep those exciting projects flowing and the internships/full-time offers going.
bit.ly/bc-sp24
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The largest hackathon on Purdue campus, BoilerMake. 346 hackers participating. Judging with Somali (Shoh-mah-lee) Chaterji, Christina Garman, Tony Bergstrom, Gustavo Rivera. Winner: PROsody, 2nd: Theremin, 3rd: Gester.
Purdue University #hackathon

Should AI be regulated? Of course. But which of the regulations being debated today are technologically feasible? Economically feasible? Your thoughts?
theconversation.com/reining-in-ai-…

#AI #AI Regulation Purdue Engineering PurdueECE Purdue Computer Science

This is shaping up to be quite a gathering of folks around the startup ecosystem here in India and also in the US.
#COMSNETS

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞?

My short piece on this. TL;DR: It will lead to an arms race but will 𝑛𝑜𝑡 irretrievably break the security of our cyber world.
bit.ly/genaisecurity
#GenAI #CyberSecurity

𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞 ... 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟓 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐲𝐩𝐫𝐮𝐬

I found myself in the far-from-the-beaten-path country of Cyprus for a conference. And then this happened ... well no nothing major, but here it is.

bit.ly/3GXlBUA

#Cyprus #worktravel

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐤

What lessons for resilient cyber-physical systems can we learn from the power grids ... one here in the US and the other in far-off, battle-torn Ukraine.
distantwhispersblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/22/lea…

#CPS #Resilience PurdueCrisp