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I have long been a proponent of double-blind reviewing. People suffer from expectation bias, and double-blind reviewing is a tried and true approach to combat it. I adopted double-blind reviewing when I co-chaired VEE 2010 and just recently for WoDet 3, … Continue reading →

My interview today with our NPR affiliate New England Public Radio went from Zappos to broader security to a discussion of the End Times (more or less)! http://www.nepr.net/news/umass-cyber-security-expert-examines-zappos-security-breach

We have made an alpha release of AutoMan, a platform for integrating human-based and digital computation. It allows programmers to “program with people”, which appear to the programmer to be ordinary function calls. AutoMan automatically handles details like quality control, payment, and task … Continue reading →

“-Hoard” — enabling the use of my Hoard memory allocator — is now an officially sanctioned configuration flag for SPEC CPU2006 (the industry-standard way to measure CPU performance)! See the flags in use for the Intel compiler and Open64. My … Continue reading →

From PBS affiliate WGBY: University of Mass. Prof. of Computer Science Emery Berger discusses cyber security and what we can do to protect our information from computer hackers.

Camera-ready versions of recent pubs from our research group: SOSP 2011: Dthreads: Efficient and Deterministic Multithreading, Tongping Liu, Charlie Curtsinger, and Emery Berger. OOPSLA 2011: Sheriff: Precise Detection and Automatic Mitigation of False Sharing, Tongping Liu and Emery Berger.  

Sheriff: Precise Detection and Automatic Mitigation of False Sharing Tongping Liu, Emery D. Berger, OOPSLA 2011 False sharing is an insidious problem for multithreaded programs running on multicore processors, where it can silently degrade performance and scalability. Previous tools for detecting … Continue reading →

If you have an iPad, and (like me) you’d like to be able to take handwritten notes on it, there is finally a decent stylus that does the job: the AluPen. It’s chunky and a little weird, with a round rubber … Continue reading →

I like my MacBook Air (my hands are soaking in it right now), but the speakers suck. I have never been able to get much volume out of them. Until now. One of the winners of the MacWorld awards this … Continue reading →

I was just at POPL and got a very nice compliment on a talk I gave on Grace from someone who watched it on-line (!). That talk was the first in my on-going efforts to eliminate all text from my … Continue reading →