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Recent News

• November 2016: I gave the 2016 Distinguished Bradley Lecture at Virginia Tech University, titled "Preparing for a Post Moore's Law World", and it was a fantastic visit, especially seeing my former PhD student Prof. Leyla Nazhandali!
   
• June 2016: Our paper "A2: Analog Malicious Hardware" won the Distinguished Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy! The paper was also nominated for a 2016 Pwnie Award, in the category of "Most Innovative Research".
   
• May 2016: Cory Doctorow (I'm a fan!) wrote an article on my recent A2 analog malicious circuit work, Undetectable proof-of-concept chip poisoning uses analog circuits to escalate privilege, in BoingBoing.
   
• May 2016: Misiker Aga and Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek won a C-FAR Best Student Demo Runner-Up Award, for the demo "Cold Boot Attacks on the DDR3 Memory Scrambler".
   
• February 2015: My PhD student Bill Arthur's paper "Getting in Control of Your Control Flow with Control-Data Isolation", which develops a powerful technique to stop code injection security attacks, appeared in CGO-2015, congratulations Bill!
   
• February 2015: I participated (with 36 other UM faculty and students) in the EM-PACE workshop in Ethiopia, a two day workshop to foster collaborations between University of Michigan and universities in Ethiopia (e.g., AAiT, AAU).  The event was a great success with many new initiatives and collaborations developed.  Two articles on the event are online:
  
  Engaging Ethiopia
  Awakening Lion
  
       
   
• November 2014: The C-FAR center (which I am the director of) completed its second year of operation, capped off by a two day meeting in Ann Arbor, where faculty, student and sponsors met to collaborate and discuss center research.
      
       
• January 2013: I am director of a new computer architecture center, called the Center for Future Architectures Research (C-FAR).  The center is exploring techniques to continue scaling the performance, power and cost of computing into the 2020-2030 era. Here are two articles that describe the center:
  
  New $28M Center Will Develop Computers of 2025
  Center for Future Architectures Research
   
• December 2012: A new textbook I co-authored with Andrew Tanenbaum has hit the shelves! It is Structured Computer Architecture, 6th Ed..  You can see the detailed outline of the book here.  Please email me if you would like to receive an instructor evaluation copy.
  
      
   
• September 2012: I recent returned from my sabbatical where I was teaching in Ethiopia.  It was an amazing experience, you can read more about it in these two articles:
  
  First a computer lab. Then an intercontinental collaboration
  Faculty Help Build Program, Relationship With Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia