Abstracts: November 5, 2024

In this episode, Microsoft senior principal researchers Chris Hawblitzel and Jay Lorch join host Amber Tingle to discuss “Verus: A Practical Foundation for Systems Verification,” which received the Distinguished Artifact Award at this year’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, or SOSP. In their research, Hawblitzel, Lorch, and their coauthors leverage advances in programming languages and formal verification with two aims. The first aim is to help make software verification more accessible for systems developers so they can demonstrate their code will behave as intended. The second aim is to provide the research community with sound groundwork to tackle the application of formal verification to large, complex systems.Read the paper