Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Advancements in computing, though invaluable to the success of the field, have had side-effects: for computers to become both more powerful and easier to operate for the lay user, the complexity of underlying systems has had to increase immensely.Seemingly straightforward operations entail layers of code to execute, of which the user has little awareness.As a result, guaranteeing privacy or even determining what, This thesis could not have been completed without the support of many people along the way.I will mention a few of these people here, and I apologize in advance for anyone I have inadvertently omitted.Thank you to my mother for suggesting I look into taking a class or two at Georgetown.This was not the first (nor will it likely be the last) time she pushed me to do some silly thing that ended up changing the course of my life for the better.Thank you to Ophir for having faith in the electrical engineer who wandered into Georgetown asking about programming classes, and encouraging me to consider spending the better part of the following decade pursuing a Ph.D. A special thanks to Micah, of whom I was the lucky first graduate student advisee.Micah went above and beyond what I have now come to realize should be expected of a doctoral advisor.Without his guidance, I would not be far from the bumbling amateur Ophir thrust upon him.I, on occasion, speak to doctoral students from other programs -these conversations regularly lead to feelings of guilt on my part, when I realize how good I have had it with Micah and the rest of the Georgetown CS faculty.I believe I've witnessed the start of an amazing program: though the department is still growing, nothing about it has ever been a limiting factor in anything I have done.Of the aforementioned faculty, thank you especially to my dissertation committee, Mark, Lisa, and Adam, for helping me turn a many-pages-too-long proposal into this dissertation.
Author: William Bradley Moore
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2570420802