[PRL] Fwd: [Programming] Talk at SYRAH meeting, 1pm Friday Sept 6, Andrew Myers

[David Van Horn]

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Subject: 	[Programming] Talk at SYRAH meeting, 1pm Friday Sept 6, Andrew
Myers
Date: 	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:07:03 -0400
From: 	Stephen Chong <chong at seas.harvard.edu>
To: 	EECS Programming List <programming at eecs.harvard.edu>, SYRAH
<syrah at eecs.harvard.edu>



Hi all,
   Andrew Myers, from Cornell University, will be visiting on Friday Sept
6, and giving a talk about programming languages and distributed systems
at 1pm in MD 221 (the normal time and location of the SYRAH meeting).
Abstract below. Hope to see you there!

Cheers,
Steve.

*Title: A programming language for securing the future distributed
environment**
**Speaker:* Andrew Myers, Cornell University
*Abstract:**
*
The trend is clear: people are exchanging code and data increasingly
freely across the Internet and the Web. But both code and data are
vectors for attacks on confidentiality and integrity.  The Fabric
project is developing a new way to support the kinds of activities now
happening on the Web: the free exchange of code and data across a
decentralized, distributed system.

Unlike the Web, Fabric has a principled basis for security:
language-based information flow.  By raising the level of abstraction
for programmers, Fabric also makes it easier to reason clearly about
security, even in the presence of distrusted mobile code. I will discuss
some problems that must be solved before a system like Fabric sees
widespread adoption.



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