Who Writes Scholarly Code?

Who Writes What Checkers? - Learning from Bug Repositories

Static code checkers have been useful for finding bugs in large-scale C code. Domain-specific checkers are particularly effective in finding deep/subtle bugs because they can make use of domain-specific knowledge. To develop domain-specific checkers, however, typical bug patterns in certain domains must first be extracted. This paper explores the use of machine learning to help extract bug patt...

Does It Matter Who Writes Medical News Stories?

The news media have a crucial role in supporting health literacy, and multiple surveys have shown the extent to which the public relies on them for information about medical advances [1,2]. However, the mainstream media are undergoing rapid and unprecedented change, with a shift from the traditional outlets (broadsheet newspapers and flagship current affairs programs) to online news services an...

Why CMAJ writes editorials.

Tracking Memory Writes for Malware Classification and Code Reuse Identification (Short Paper)

Malicious code (malware) is used to steal sensitive data, to attack corporate networks, and to deliver spam. To silently compromise systems and maintain their access, malware developers usually apply obfuscation techniques that result in a massive amount of malware variants and that can render static analysis approaches ineffective. To address the limitations of static approaches, researchers h...

Truly Non-blocking Writes

Writing data within user or operating system memory often encounters the classic read-before-write problem whereby the page written to must first be read from the backing store, effectively blocking the writing process before modifications are made. Unfortunately, the large gap between memory and storage access performance adversely affects workloads that require substantial readbefore-write op...