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Liveblogging for #CUSEC 2010

I’m still at CUSEC 2010 in Montreal. My plan was to take notes and quickly publish here, but then at the last minute I decided to liveblog for CUSEC instead. It’s at http://live.cusec.net/. So far my favourite talk was from Matt Knox, talking about ethics and how the human brain has a remote root: we [...]

#CUSEC09: No day 3 report

It’s been what feels like ages since CUSEC 2009 has ended. I had a blast, even though there weren’t quite enough academic talks, but it looks like that will be changed in the next conference lovingly dubbed CUSEC 20 GOTO 10. In place of a day three report I offer a link to Ben Kane’s [...]

#CUSEC09: Day 2 report

Yesterday was not nearly as full of a day for me, partly due to technical difficulties. I started out the day with James Golick‘s tutorial on dynamic languages. Unfortunately he couldn’t get the projector working due to issues with his MacBook. Since it was a tutorial the projector was essential, so after a several attempts [...]

#CUSEC09: Day 1 report

I’m reclining in bed with a beer and I have to be up in seven hours. Today was a long but good day. I enjoyed the talks and my wander through the city. I sat through three keynotes, ate poutine with smoked meat on it, visited SAQ, checked out the Eaton Centre and had a [...]

Quickie on Lively Kernel from #cusec09

I spoke to Dan after his presentation about the Lively Kernel. The talk started out with building his hacker cred through childhood stories. Most of talk was already covered by the website. After the presentation, I asked two questions: Was there any effort to build a translation layer between a desktop GUI toolkit (for example, [...]

Radialpoint talk at #cusec09

Lost my notes due to wifi failure. Here’s what I remember. Marty is the speaker. He’s from Radialpoint formerly known as Zero Knowledge Systems, was employee #1 and helped build up from startup to medium sized enterprise. Zero Knowledge based off the crypto proof. Learning is essentially unlimited at the beginning of the career. Innovator’s [...]