Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 36

Presenting my talk via videoconference at Conferencia Regional de Software Libre, set up by GUGLER, in Paraná, Argentina, November 7, 2013

The audience during my (network-provided) talk in Paraná, Argentina; November 7 2013

Thanks to Brit+Kaz for the picture! :)

I invited Sandino Araico to give a class in my Operating Systems class. Photographic evidence.

As a guest speaker at my Operating Systems class

Students paying attention to Sandino’s talk on memory management related to computer security

Sandino as a guest speaker to my Operating Systems class

This last Thursday I was able again to lure a good friend of mine into presenting an interesting topic to my students at my Operating Systems class: Sandino Araico, a very well known and very well regarded local security guru, presented several issues regarding memory management. I asked him to present the issues on buffer overflows, as well as possible mitigaion strategies, but of course, to present that topic, he had to walk all over the map of memory management. A good and interesting class. I was able to film it again, and here it is — Sadly, as I...

Las promesas del Internet de las cosas han estado por décadas ya a la vuelta de la esquina, y cada vez parecen acercarse más. Imaginar un mundo de sub-artefactos inteligentes (me niego a darle el título de computadora completa a un empaque de leche, el típico ejemplo, por el simple hecho de que un microcontrolador en su empaque me permita leer «Contenido: 32%; Frescura: 4 días») nos ha resultado natural desde hace mucho, posiblemente por la prevalencia de estas ideas en las novelas de ciencia ficción por mucho más tiempo ya. Como contraejemplo, la adopción, crecimiento y masificación de Internet,...

I try to have some guests every now and then to my Operating Systems class. The class is not as practical/interactive as I’d like, and having some people show the students how the subjects I teach are reflected in the real world is, I feel, very useful for them to understand the topics’ importance. The past semester (the first one for me) I had three guests: Chema Serralde, talking about process scheduling and in particular on the importance of real time, from his perspective as a musician, Rolando Cedillo, talking about the early stages of the boot process, and César...