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Rust Systems Index

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Setting the Stage

“What does the systems research landscape change when you start writing things in Rust? What are the most important open research challenges for software written in Rust?”

  • GC is now a thing if you write go
  • Lots of debugging tools were shaped by pointers, etc.

Lectures

Ruth 2025

Last edited: August 8, 2025

(Ruth et al., n.d.)

One-Liner

Governments’ security guidance lack overall consensus in both formatting as well as actual practice; we find this out using treeeeees.

Novelty

  • new tree similarity mechanism similar to edit distance
  • first hand-labeled ontological dataset for security guidance

Notable Methods

  1. download security guidance
  2. label guidance into multi-level controls
  3. tree distance metric for similarity
Ruth, Kimberly, Raymond Buernor Obu, Ifeoluwa Shode, Gavin Li, Carrie Gates, Grant Ho, and Zakir Durumeric. n.d. “A First Look at Governments’ Enterprise Security Guidance.” In USENIX Security Symposium.

SA

Last edited: August 8, 2025

an operations research linear solution system

see simplex algorithm

Sadeghian 2021

Last edited: August 8, 2025

DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2021.624594

(Sadeghian, Schaffer, and Zahorian 2021)

One-Liner

Using a genetic algorithm, picked features to optimize fore; achieved \(94\%\) with just MMSE data alone (ok like duh me too). Developed ASR tool to aid.

Novelty

  • Developed an ASR methodology for speech, complete with punctuations
  • Used a genetic algorithm to do feature selection; NNs performed worse because “space is smaller???”

Notable Methods

Used a GRU to insert punctuations

The paper leveraged the nuke that is a bidirectional GRU, ATTENTION,

Safety for Autonomous Trucking

Last edited: August 8, 2025

challenges of autonomous driving

the world is messy—robo-taxies would be confused

It seems like an increasing trend to do data argumentation with generative approaches.

safety standards

ISO 26262

how to do it , instead of what to do

  • functional safety standard
  • methods about testing and processes

ISO 21448

intended functionality

  • scenario based analysis of hazardous situations—“triggering conditions” => “mitigations” shown below
  • identification and mitigation of functional insufficiencies
  • (requires?) the discovering of unknown unknowns with mitigations

Safety and AI

the actual safety challenges