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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...

This week’s lesson on the «Arte y cultura en circulación: crear y compartir en tiempos digitales» course talks about piracy and the circulation of culture, a topic that over time has been debated over and over. And a topic, yes, that can always lead to interesting discussions. This time, we are requested to choose one among ten ideas among the media groups’ discourse on what piracy is and means for the “cultural industry”. There are tons of material written already on several of those ten lines (i.e. piracy disincentivates creativity, or two that can be seen as two faces of...

Just saw this ad today at my Institute’s door. Rough translation: Interim programmer sought Requisites: High schoolOne year of experienceTheorical and practical exams on the areaFamiliarity handling electronic equipment, such as computers, perforators/punchers, terminals and similar. [Yes, this is a joke post. I don’t know how anybody is using such an obsolete job description. A job description at least three decades out of date] [Well, yes, I understand it, because I knowhow that particular union works. But I cannot accept it is for real] […And no, please don’t apply for the job. You will be miserable in the unlikely event...

The third lesson of the «Arte y cultura en circulación: crear y compartir en tiempos digitales» course was quite easy, at least for me, as it’s one of the topics I’ve been involved with for a long time: Authors’ rights and ways to exercise them. This lesson starts by talking about the paradoxes created in the reality beneath copyright mostly due to the zero-cost-for-perfect-copy reality we live in today, and then goes on to introduce the most widely spread licensing schemes for cultural works nowadays: The Creative Commons licensing schemes. What I felt very interesting is that the lesson tackles...