Bryce Boe

It has been over twelve years since I last wrote to my blog, ending with a letter to my recently deceased brother.

Dear Daniel, I have put off writing this letter as long as I could.

This is my first pelican post using markdown.

Bryce Boe Ph.D.

Many people in the US show appreciation for their mother on the second Sunday of May.

Early yesterday morning many people gained an extra hour by repeating the second hour of the day.

Two weeks ago I attended SIGCSE 2012 in Raleigh, NC.

Major Area Exam Bryce Boe March 12, 2012 2:00 PM HFH 1132 Committee: Diana Franklin (chair), Tim Sherwood, Kevin Almeroth Title: Automated Feedback and Assessment of Student Submitted Code Abstract: Increases in class sizes pose a problem for computer sci…

A few days ago I wrote about a few differences between using C and python to handle a process-based job management system.

I had an interesting discussion with my buddy Ali after he read my previous post, Python Multiprocessing Pool and KeyboardInterrupt Revisited.

Earlier today I was in the process of cleaning out some Chrome bookmarks when I came across a post by John M.

I’m currently in Chicago, having just attended the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, where Adam Doupé presented our paper, Fear the EAR: Discovering and Mitigating Execution After Redirect Vulnerabilities.

Yesterday, October 7, 2011, the graduate students of UCSB’s Computer Science department, including myself, hosted the 6th annual Graduate Student Workshop on Computing (GSWC).

For the third year, I competed with team Shellphish in the Defcon quals.

Last night Adam Doupé wrote up his description on our Execution After Redirect Vulnerability which I wanted to link my followers to.

Update 2011/02/23 11:02 PST Added the lift tag and updated the list.

The Usenix security deadline is quickly approaching, and that means finalizing everything on my research project.

Each year the Security Lab at UCSB hosts the International Capture the Flag competition, an approximately eight-hour security competition pitting security groups at various universities around the world against each other.

Recently I’ve done a lot of work requiring heavy computation on large datasets.

VirusTotal is a web service that essentially performs a virus scan of an uploaded file, or url against many of the top virus scanners (see full list).

Update 2012/02/14: Added post: Python Multiprocessing Pool and KeyboardInterrupt Revisited Update 2011/02/03: Added commentary regarding Georges’s comment about this stackoverflow thread.

Buz’s and my previous web hosting recently expired and thus on Sunday I moved all our stuff over to our new server hosted with WebFaction which I’ve thus far been incredibly happy with.

Edit 2010/08/27: I thought I should update this page stating that the AWS S3 Console was updated about a month ago with a feature to convert entire folders to/from Reduced Redundancy.

I previously wrote about my preparation for leaving Facebook.

This weekend I competed in the Defcon 18 Qualifiers with team Shellphish.

Update 2010/05/27: I’ve made further updates to photograbber.

Last week I wrote about the awesome message my brother left me regarding what he wanted for his birthday.

I was working away one day and I missed a phone call.

This is a ridiculously silly post however I predict it will work out in my favor and if not at least it only required a minuscule amount of my time.

Warning: This post contains pictures most people would never want to see of me, and a few vulgarities.

As a member of the Security Lab at UCSB I had the privilege to help create and run this year’s iCTF Hacking Competition.

Last year I was a teaching assistant for two quarters giving me two opportunities to see how well I could share my knowledge with students.

Update 2011/02/25 12:07 Updated the code such that it doesn’t rely on a coin of denomination one.

Wow, where has the time gone?

I was just watching the keynote for Google I/O in which Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt said, “I’m one of these people who believes Computer Science is at the center of the Universe.”

I previously mentioned that I was the Teaching Assistant (TA) for the Operating Systems class this quarter.

This past weekend my littlest brother pitched for the first time.

I turned my computer on this morning and to my dismay my 9 month old 1TB harddrive could no longer be detected.

Update 2011-07-18: As Ernesto correctly points out in the comments, this algorithm selects N independent random lines from a file.

Next quarter I am TAing the Operating Systems course at UCSB, which was one of my favorite classes (I even mentioned it here- see junior year), despite it being considered the most difficult required Computer Science course.

My brother Connor recently mailed me a letter that read: Dear Friends and Family, In Social Studies we have been discussing communities and what makes them work.

So much has happened this quarter that it’s now difficult to recall specifics, but knowing all too well that it only gets more difficult with time I’ll try to recall some of the more awesome events.

The drive back down to Santa Barbara was awesome.

Damn it’s been over 8 weeks since I last wrote, and how I’ve missed it.

This evening I went to dinner at the American Table cafe with Steve.

Around three a few of us headed over to the hub for coffee, and as usual there is a different treat of the day.

Today I had lunch at Google’s newest Cafe, Big Table.

I’ve been meaning to do this at least once all summer.

My last week at Google is finally here.

First I’d like to mention the obvious; I sold the Porsche this morning.