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Building Better Systems
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Exploring tools and approaches that make us more effective engineers and make our systems safe and reliable. Join us for discussions on recent developments in topics such as best practices in reliability and security, applied formal methods, encryption, and safe and secure hardware.
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Exploring tools and approaches that make us more effective engineers and make our systems safe and reliable. Join us for discussions on recent developments in topics such as best practices in reliability and security, applied formal methods, encryption, and safe and secure hardware.
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1 Episode #22: Eric Daimler — Guaranteeing the Integrity of Data Models with Category Theory 37:50
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In this episode, we're joined by Eric Daimler, CEO & co-founder of Conexus AI, Inc, an MIT spin out. We discuss the Conexus software platform, which is built on top of breakthroughs in the mathematics of Category Theory, and how it guarantees the integrity of universal data models. Eric shares real-world examples of applying this approach to various complex industries, such as transportation and logistics, avionics, and energy. Listen to this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Eric Daimler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericdaimler/ Joey Dodds: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-dodds-4b462a41/ Rob Dockins: https://galois.com/team/robert-dockins/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 Episode #21: Nikhil Swamy — Fully In Bed With Dependent Types 48:45
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Today we're joined by Nikhil Swamy, Senior Principal Researcher in the RiSE group at Microsoft Research. We are very excited to hear about what he's been working on. In particular, we're going discuss a language that he's co-created and continually develops called F* (pronounced F star). F* is a dependently typed language that you can both program and prove things about the programs that you write. We'll talk about what makes that language special and unique from other similar languages, as well as some of the applications of F*. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems YouTube channel Nikhil Swamy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea rch/people/nswamy/ F*: https://www.fstar-lang.org/ Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 Episode #20: Ankush Desai — P: The Modeling Language That Could 46:12
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Joey and Shpat talk with Ankush Desai, a Senior Applied Scientist at AWS and one of the primary developers behind the P language. They dig into uses for P, bug finding, and what it takes for formal methods researchers to build useful tools for applied engineers. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Ankush Desai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankush-desai/ Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #19: Steve Weis — Security Shouldn't Be the Last Check Box 41:36
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In this episode, we talk with Steve Weis, a Senior Staff Security Engineer at Databricks with extensive knowledge of security, cryptography, and software engineering. Steve shares his experience working for large companies like Google and Facebook and how their security needs differ from start-ups and companies trying to scale. He talks about why he thinks companies should share more about how they design their infrastructure and how they can develop a “security mindset” so even non-security-related roles can contribute to building secure systems. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Steve Weis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenweis/ Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #18: Jordan Kyriakidis — Helping People Write More Useful Requirements 47:19
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In episode #18, we chat with Jordan Kyriakidis, co-founder and CEO of QRA Corp. QRA is developing QVScribe, a product that helps engineers write requirements and analyze those requirements to gauge whether they are framed well and capture the writer's intent. We discuss the impact of writing good, early-stage design requirements, how they impact your system, how to write better requirements, the state of natural language processing, and machine learning for this use case. We also talk about applying those in situations where you need explainability and where ambiguity is unacceptable. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Jordan Kyriakidis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordankyriakidis/ Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #17: Iain Whiteside — The Twists and Turns of Validating Neural Networks for Autonomous Driving (Part 2) 28:38
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In this two-part episode, we speak with Iain Whiteside about the challenges and some of the more novel solutions to make autonomous vehicles safer and easier to program. In part 1, we discuss how Ian and his team formalize and check the different actions and situations that a car finds itself in while on the road. In part 2, we discuss how you might validate the accuracy of neural networks that sense the world, and how to mitigate issues that might arise. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Iain Whiteside: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjw Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #16: Iain Whiteside – Autonomous Driving: Reasoning About the Rules of the Road (Part 1) 56:25
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In this two-part episode, we speak with Iain Whiteside about the challenges and some of the more novel solutions to make autonomous vehicles safer and easier to program. In part 1, we discuss how Ian and his team formalize and check the different actions and situations that a car finds itself in while on the road. In part 2, we discuss how you might validate the accuracy of neural networks that sense the world, and how to mitigate issues that might arise. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Iain Whiteside: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjw Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #15: Dr. Kathleen Fisher – Sparking the New Age of Formal Verification at DARPA 55:52
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In this episode, we chat with Dr. Kathleen Fisher, who was chair of the Computer Science department at Tufts University at the time of the interview. We talk about Kathleen’s experience in applying formal methods and PL theory to solve significant practical problems throughout her career. Equally important, we discuss how it came to be that she is practically a pro at golf! Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Dr. Kathleen Fisher: https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-kathleen-fisher HACMS: https://www.darpa.mil/program/high-assurance-cyber-military-systems PADS: https://pads.cs.tufts.edu/about.html From Dirt to Shovels paper: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/papers/learningpopl08-final.pdf Hancock: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/331960.331981 PLMW: http://sigplan.org/Conferences/PLMW/ CRAW: https://cra.org/cra-wp/ NSF Broadening Participation in Computing: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/broadening-participation-computing-bpc-0 Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #14: Leo de Moura — Combining the Worlds of Automated and Interactive Theorem Proving In Lean 45:35
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In this episode, we talk with Leo de Moura, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. We’ll dive into his work on Lean, how goals for Lean have evolved, and who can use it. We also discuss how Leo was able to implement such a system without being a programming languages expert. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Leo de Moura: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/leonardo/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #13: Rod Chapman – It's Either Automated or It's Wrong 44:03
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Rod Chapman explains his recent verification of TweetNACL using SPARK/ADA. We discuss how every aspect of his proofs are automated, how the correctness proofs actually enabled better performance after compilation, and higher confidence in some otherwise risky-seeming optimizations. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Rod Chapman: linkedin.com/in/rod-chapman-7b60266 https://github.com/rod-chapman/SPARKNaCl Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #12: Alex Malozemoff & Marc Rosen – Censorship Circumvention with ROCKY Balboa 30:58
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We chat with Alex Malozemoff and Marc Rosen about a recently published paper on a novel system for censorship circumvention, and it's corresponding implementation. The paper authors also include James Parker. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Alex Malozemoff: https://galois.com/team/alex-malozemoff/ Marc Rosen: https://galois.com/team/marc-rosen/ Paper referenced: Balboa: Bobbing and Weaving Around Network Censorship: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05871…
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1 #11: Alastair Reid – Meeting Developers Where They Are 36:18
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Alastair Reid describes Google's efforts to bring formal methods to developers so that they can be useful today. We cover a recent publication describing their approach, Alastair's project to document all of the papers he read for a year, and a prototype tool that they've been building to demonstrate formal verification tools in rust. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Alastair Reid's paper project: https://alastairreid.github.io/RelatedWork/papers/ Rust verification tools: https://github.com/project-oak/rust-verification-tools Meeting Developers Where They Are paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16345 Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #10: Gregory Malecha – Formal Methods and Systems Programmers Working Together 43:41
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Gregory Malecha talks with Joey and Shpat about Bedrock, a startup bringing systems engineers together with formal methods engineers to build some of the most secure and correct systems in the world. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems youtube channel . Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Gregory Malecha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-malecha-91a71469/ https://gmalecha.github.io/ Formal Methods for the Informal Engineer: https://fmie2021.github.io/agenda.html Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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Tycho Andersen shares lessons that Linux kernel developers have learned from decades of open-source interactions. We discuss how the open-source community works together to make the Linux kernel better for everyone, and also what it's like to work debugging the kernel. Watch all our episodes on the Building Better Systems Youtube channel. Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Tycho Andersen: https://tycho.pizza/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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1 #8: Eric Davis – Building Better Data Models 34:28
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Dr. Eric Davis walks us through what it means for a data model to be trustworthy, what common pitfalls predictive models run into, reproducibility issues, and what can be done. We chat about how subject area experts are expected to be many things: statisticians, computer scientists, and mathematicians, and how that can sometimes lead to mistakes. We also look at the COVID-19 pandemic and how data models affect decision-making. https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/ https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/content/committee-credible-practice-modeling-simulation-healthcare-description https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.07.239855v1 https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/content/10-simple-rules-conformance-rubric You can watch this episode on our Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/BuildingBetterSystemsPodcast Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ Eric Davis: https://galois.com/team/eric-davis/ Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ Contact us: podcast@galois.com…
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