The Spec# programming system is a new attempt at a more cost effective way to develop
and maintain high-quality software. This paper describes the goals and architecture of the …

Rust is a new systems programming language that promises to overcome the seemingly
fundamental tradeoff between high-level safety guarantees and low-level control over …

Singularity is a research project in Microsoft Research that started with the question: what
would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of …

We describe LLVM (low level virtual machine), a compiler framework designed to support
transparent, lifelong program analysis and transformation for arbitrary programs, by …

We present TinyOS, a flexible, application-specific operating system for sensor networks,
which form a core component of ambient intelligence systems. Sensor networks consist of …

This article presents EXE, an effective bug-finding tool that automatically generates inputs
that crash real code. Instead of running code on manually or randomly constructed input …

We present nesC, a programming language for networked embedded systems that
represent a new design space for application developers. An example of a networked …

Software development and maintenance are costly endeavors. The cost can be reduced if
more software defects are detected earlier in the development cycle. This paper introduces …

A major obstacle to finding program errors in a real system is knowing what correctness
rules the system must obey. These rules are often undocumented or specified in an ad hoc …

Program verification is a promising approach to improving program quality, because it can
search all possible program executions for specific errors. However, the need to formally …