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Maybe not that scary, but probably should check your computer just in case: me on WGBY explaining about the DNS Changer Trojan Horse: UMass Professor Emery Berger discusses recent reports of internet hacking that could leave thousands of Americans with “infected” … Continue reading →

Doppio: Java on Coffeescript – run JVM bytecodes in your browser without any plug-ins. Best of this year’s crop: a project from my graduate systems class. Runs Rhino and javac!

Me on WGBY: “cyberterrorism”, DoS attacks, botnets, SOPA + my not at all cynical take on politicians and the legislative process!

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.