Commentary: Driver Electronic Device Use—Put Down That Cell Telephone!

Driver electronic device use in 2007.

drivers, drivers of other races than black or white, drivers in the West, drivers on expressway exit ramps, drivers traveling through clear weather conditions, drivers of passenger cars, drivers on weekdays (especially during weekday rush hours), and drivers driving alone. Table 1 shows the percentages of drivers holding phones to their ears in 2008 and 2009 by major characteristics of drivers....

Automatic Device Driver Synthesis

Object-oriented Device Driver Programming

Operating systems should be made exible from their low-level system structures, to enable them to adapt to dynamic changes of the outer world. This paper proposes a methodology for making device drivers completely re-con gurable, by introducing objectoriented re ective programming into the low-level system structures of operating systems. We introduce concurrent objects and continuations as a b...

Towards Device Driver Synthesis Dissertation

Acknowledgements My dissertation is the result of different research projects, student projects, and lecturing carried out during my time in the working group of " Design of Parallel Systems " at the Heinz-Nixdorf Institute (HNI). The HNI is an interdisziplinary centre for research and technology of the University of Paderborn, Germany. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Prof...

Analyzing Stripped Device-Driver Executables

This paper sketches the design and implementation of DeviceDriver Analyzer for x86 (DDA/x86), a prototype analysis tool for finding bugs in stripped Windows device-driver executables (i.e., when neither source code nor symbol-table/debugging information is available), and presents a case study. DDA/x86 was able to find known bugs (previously discovered by source-code-based analysis tools) along...