ACM invited our ACM CCS 2025 paper BLACKOUT (led by my student Hossam ElAtali and our collaborators at Ericsson, Merve Gülmez and Thomas Nyman) to be featured in the ACM Kudos Showcase. Congratulations Hossam, Merve, and Thomas!

link.growkudos.com/1dxqtlm0k5c

On Wednesday, at ACM CCS, my student Hossam will be presenting BLACKOUT, a hardware-software codesign to simultaneously provide memory safety and data-oblivious execution. Work done with Ericsson experts Merve Gülmez & my former student Thomas Nyman.

Blog post at crysp.uwaterloo.ca/ssg/blog/202...

My student Anudeep Das initiated this work when he was an undergrad researcher. With doctoral students @vasishtduddu.bsky.social & Rui Zhang, he worked relentlessly and has won a best paper award. This is rare, even in a place like @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social with high-achieving undergrads!

Today, I was asked to speak at the morning assembly at my old high school, Trinity College - Kandy, Sri Lanka. This is what I said: medium.com/@asokan.publ...

The "Grad Conference" organized by CPI (cpi.uwaterloo.ca) and GSPA @uwaterloo.ca is about to begin. It is a first of a kind event bringing together #cybersecurity and #privacy grad students and industry from this region.

I wanted to post a link to this article because I thought it is one worth reading. Surprisingly, Bluesky keeps getting "Internal error!"

Facebook doesn't allow Canadians to post articles to newspapers or magazines.

So I am reduced to posting it on X and linking to it!
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@vajra.me's website now has the full text of my #Tamil translation of his #SF story “The Translator, At Low Tide” which appeared in the January 2024 issue of the Tamil literary magazine, kalachuvadu.

Earlier, I wrote about my experience in doing this translation at medium.com/@asokan.publ...

Congratulations @vasishtduddu.bsky.social first among my students to bag an #IBM PhD Fellowship. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/vasisht...

Allow me a rant: the security/crypto community has had to swallow terminology imposed from the outside, like "crypto" changing from "cryptology" to "crypto currencies" or the domain becoming "cybersecurity" (or even "cyber", ugh!). It is happening again in the ML security/privacy space.

About translations into Tamil: (a more detailed post here: medium.com/@e_iniyavan/...)

I posted about translating @vajra.me's fabulous story. 👇🏾

Next, I would love to translate #Tove #Jansson's #Moomin stories into #Tamil. Here is a writeup on my earlier attempt medium.com/@e_iniyavan/...

Some notes on my Tamil->English translations: (a more detailed post here medium.com/@e_iniyavan/...)

3 full collections here drive.google.com/drive/folder...

1. Akka by A. Muttulingam
2. Lines and forms Kuppilan Ai. Shanmugan. and
3. Black Cuckoo, by Shobhasakthi

Thanks for re-sharing!

I wrote up a personal reminiscence of the dramatic rise of Science Fiction in Sri Lanka (and how I ended up translating a short story by a top writer, Nebula-winner @vajra.me, into Tamil which was just published by Kalachuvadu, a leading Tamil literary magazine).

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