Similar to stem cells, naïve T cells undergo asymmetric division following activation. While asymmetric division of T cells has been shown to be an important mechanism for the generation of lymphocyte fate diversity during immune responses, key factors that influence whether T cells will undergo symmetric or asymmetric divisions are not completely understood. Here, we utilized immunological syn...

Low-level Inlined Reference Monitors (IRM) such as control-flow integrity and software-based fault isolation can foil numerous software attacks. Conventionally, those IRMs are implemented through binary rewriting or transformation on equivalent low-level programs that are tightly coupled with a specific Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Resulting implementations have poor retargetability to d...

Recently, code reuse attacks (CRAs), such as returnoriented programming (ROP) and jump-oriented programming (JOP), have emerged as a new class of ingenious security threatens. Attackers can utilize CRAs to hijack the control flow of programs to perform malicious actions without injecting any codes. Many defenses, classed into software-based and hardwarebased, have been proposed. However, softwa...

This paper presents a methodology for synthesizing customized vector ISAs for various application domains targeting high performance execution. A number of applications from the telecommunication and linear algebra domains have been studied, and custom vector instructions sets have been synthesized. Three algorithms that compute the shortest paths in a directed graph (Dijkstra, Floyd and Bellma...