Writing multithreaded programs is hard. Static analysis tools can help developers by
allowing threading policies to be formally specified and mechanically checked. They …

The use of shared mutable state, commonly seen in object-oriented systems, is often
problematic due to the potential conflicting interactions between aliases to the same state …

Finding simple, yet expressive, verification techniques to reason about both aliasing and
mutable state has been a major challenge for static program verification. One such …

The present dissertation argues that better programming languages can be designed and
implemented, so as to provide greater safety and reliability for computer programs. I sustain …

Participatory sensing is a revolutionary new paradigm that offers individuals and interest
groups the opportunity to contribute to an application using their sensor equipped handheld …

Efficient and safe memory management is a hard problem. Garbage collection promises
automatic memory management but comes with the cost of increased memory footprint …

These notes follow the judgmental presentation of intuitionistic linear logic in Chang, et al.'s
paper [36]. They were also informed by Pfenning's lecture notes on linear logic. For more …