Parallel Software and Anonymizing Networks with MIT CSAIL's Srini Devadas

In this episode

MIT CSAIL professor Srini Devadas discusses computer architecture, computer security and their intersection. He gives further insight into the conflict between ease of programming and performance and the communication between these threads through parallel software, such as message passing or shared memory abstraction (e.g. Google Docs).

About the speakers

Srini Devadas

Faculty Co-Director, MIT Future of Data, Trust, and Privacy

Principal Investigator, MIT CSAIL

Professor, MIT CSAIL

Srini Devadas is the Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and has been on the MIT EECS faculty since 1988. He served as Associate Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with the responsibility for Computer Science, from 2005 to 2011. His research focuses on Computer Aided Design (CAD), computer security and computer architecture. In 2015, he received various awards including: ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact award in Electronic Design Automation, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2014) for inventing Physical Unclonable Functions and single-chip secure processor architectures.

Industry Impact
Protection of information has been a major challenge since the start of the computer age. Given the widespread adoption of computer technology for business operations, the problem of protecting information has become a more crucial epidemic. Classified computer files, databases, and Internet applications are the most sole and vital asset of an organization. Hence, when these assets become attack, threatened, or damage data integrity becomes questioned and conducting business is at a halt.

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