Teaching Is a Privilege

What is immune privilege (not)?

The 'immune privilege' of the central nervous system (CNS) is indispensable for damage limitation during inflammation in a sensitive organ with poor regenerative capacity. It is a longstanding notion which, over time, has acquired several misconceptions and a lack of precision in its definition. In this article, we address these issues and re-define CNS immune privilege in the light of recent d...

Make Least Privilege a Right (Not a Privilege)

Though system security would benefit if programmers routinely followed the principle of least privilege [24], the interfaces exposed by operating systems often stand in the way. We investigate why modern OSes thwart secure programming practices and propose solutions.

Is “teaching” an obstacle to “research”?

Introduction. Regarding the role of research in developing and improving a better culture, society and economics, 95% to 97% world finance in research belongs to developed countries while only 3%-5% to developing countries. Although the universities as the major organizations are to do research works, it seems that there are some problems to bring this true. We tried to find out if a load of t...

Teaching UML Is Teaching Software Engineering Is Teaching Abstraction

As the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has by now seen widespread and successful use in the software industry and academia alike, it has also found its way into many computer science curricula. An outstanding advantage of teaching UML is that it enables an illustration of many crucial concepts of software engineering, far beyond its concrete notation. Most important among these concepts is that...

Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth