“Program Verification”: Has it lost its punch?
The usage of the term program verification has expanded well beyond its original meaning. As research in this space advances and expands, is it time to reconsider the term?
Archive of posts tagged: formal verification
Program Synthesis in 2019
Program synthesis addresses an age-old problem in computer science: can a computer program itself? This post surveys the growing evolution of work in this exciting area.
Secure Compilation
*Secure compilation* is an emerging field that puts together advances in programming languages, security, compilers, systems, formal verification, and hardware architectures. It aims to devise compilation chains that eliminate many of today’s security attacks, without sacrificing efficiency, and allowing sound reasoning about security properties in the source language.
AI Safety as a PL problem
In the last few years, there have been many anxious ruminations about AI safety. To a significant extent, these fears come from the realization that modern AI systems can be alarmingly brittle. For example, a deep neural net used for image classification can produce...