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A delegation from our chairs took part in EuroSys 2023 in Rome from 8 to 12 May. As one of the largest conferences for system software, the conference program covered a wide range of topics. In addition to classic topics, such as operating systems or cloud computing, related areas, such as machine l...

Maxim, Thomas and Harald started this month as new research assistants at the chair. All of them supported us during their studies as tutors in SPiC, SP and BS and gained insight into our research topics while writing their theses. Already in their second week of work they had the opportunity to...

Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Director of the Software/Hardware Integration Lab (LISHA) and Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil, will be visiting the Chair from April 25-27, 2023. In addition to scientific talks on topics related to the collaborat...

On March 6 and 7, Prof. Horst Schirmeier hosted this year's spring meeting in Dresden, the city of the inventors of the disposable coffee filter and the L4Re microkernel. Six sessions with a total of 14 talks provided enough space to present and discuss current research topics in the context of ope...

On March 2, José Luis Conradi Hoffmann and Leonardo Passig Horstmann, PhD students under the supervision of Antônio Augusto Fröhlich at the Software/Hardware Integration Lab (LISHA) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil, started their one-year research stay at...

All good things come in twos: Once again, our former student employee Henriette Hofmeier was able to win a sponsorship award with her master thesis on the topic "Dynamic Reconfiguration of Hardware-Vulnerability Mitigations in the Linux Kernel", this time the Preis der Fachgruppe Frauen und Technik ...

At the beginning of the lecture-free period, the staff of the two chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met for a joint retreat at Drübeck Abbey from February 13 to 15. There, the participants presented their current research work, looked back on the progress in the past year and collected suggesti...

Our former student assistant Henriette Hofmeier has won the ASQF (Arbeitskreis Software-Qualität und -Fortbildung e.V.) Sponsorship Award 2023 with her master thesis on "Dynamic Reconfiguration of Hardware-Vulnerability Mitigations in the Linux Kernel". The thesis was supervised by Timo Hönig, forme...

Three papers with participation of Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza were published at this year's Middleware conference in Quebec City, Canada: SplitBFT: Improving Byzantine Fault Tolerance Safety Using Trusted Compartments by Ines Messadi, EventChain: A Blockchain Framework for Secure, Privacy-Preserving Even...

As a student, Eva Dengler not only supported us as a tutor, but was also involved in the InvasIC research project. On 1st of November, we welcome her as a new research assistant at our chair, where she will work on the adaptation of energy-constrained real-time systems as part of the Watwa research...