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Explore the wonders of science with FREE activities for the whole family at the Cal Science & Engineering Festival.
Return-oriented programming is an attack technique that induces arbitrary behavior in the compromised program without injecting new code into its address space. A return-oriented attack combines short sequences of instructions from a target program’s executable image into a Turing-complete set of combinators, called “gadgets,” from which any desired functionality can be synthesized.
The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center was formed five years ago to advance the commercialization of energy efficient technologies and to prepare the next generation of leaders in energy efficiency.
Text-messaging has quickly become the dominant form of remote communication in much of the world, surpassing email, phone calls and even grid electricity. This has social development and crisis response organizations to leverage mobile technologies to support health, banking, access to market information, literacy and emergency response.
David Green is a MacArthur Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and is recognized by Schwab Foundation as a leading social entrepreneur. He helped establish Aurolab (India), to produce affordable intraocular lenses (now has 8% of the global market share) and suture. He has also helped develop high-volume, quality eye care programs that are affordable to the poor and self-sustaining from user fees, including Aravind Eye Hospital in India, which performs 300,000 surgeries per year.
In this talk, I will present our ongoing work towards developing self-powered MEMS sensor modules that can be installed in both residential and commercial settings, as well as in power distribution and transmission systems.
Removing faults from programs is an important component for developing robust software, that is, software which does not break down easily. Robust software is a requirement for users who do not want to use problematic code.
The evaluation and management of new information technologies is an increasing challenge for health care organizations that want to establish innovation as a core strategic capability.
Modern programming languages, such as Java and C++, provide weak or no semantics to programs with data races. This compromises the safety and debuggability for large programs, which are likely to have data races.
Arthur Rosenfeld, Professor of Physics Emeritus at UC Berkeley, was the last graduate student of Nobelist Enrico Fermi. In 1955 he joined the Physics faculty at UC Berkeley and the research group of Luis Alvarez. In 1974, in response to the OPEC oil embargo, Rosenfeld switched to the new field of efficient use of energy, and founded the LBNL Center for Building Science, which he led until 1994, when he was appointed Senior Advisor to the Department of Energy, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
