Owen S. Hofmann

• I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin
• I do research for Professor Emmett Witchel as part of the Operating Systems and Architecture group
• My research interests include hardware and operating system support for parallel programming models

• CS 429: Systems 1 Spring 2012

• Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Michael Z. Lee, Emmett Witchel
  InkTag: Secure Applications on an Untrusted Operating System
  In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-XVIII), Houston, TX, March 2013
• Ed Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Owen Hofmann, Yutaka Suzue, Jinliang Fan, Jon Howell
  Flat Datacenter Storage
  In Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Hollywood, CA, October 2012
• Sangman Kim, Michael Z. Lee, Alan M. Dunn, Owen S. Hofmann, Xuan Wang, Emmett Witchel, Donald E. Porter
  Improving Server Applications with System Transactions
  In Proceedings of the 7th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Bern, Switzerland, April 2012
• Alan M. Dunn, Owen S. Hofmann, Brent Waters, Emmett Witchel
  Cloaking Malware with the Trusted Platform Module
  In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011
• Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indrajit Roy, Emmett Witchel
  Ensuring Operating System Kernel Integrity with OSck
  In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-XVI), Newport Beach, CA, March 2011
• Scott Wolchok, Owen S. Hofmann, Nadia Heninger, Edward W. Felten, J. Alex Halderman, Christopher J. Rossbach, Brent Waters, Emmett Witchel
  Defeating Vanish with Low-Cost Sybil Attacks Against Large DHTs
  In Proceedings of the 17th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, California February, 2010
• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
  Is Transactional Memory Programming Actually Easier?
  In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), Bangalore, India, January 2010
• Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Alexander Benn, Emmett Witchel
  Operating System Transactions
  In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '09), Big Sky, MT, October 2009
• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
  Is Transactional Memory Programming Actually Easier?
  In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (WDDD), Austin, Texas June 2009
• Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett Witchel
  Maximum Benefit from a Minimal HTM
  In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-XIV), Washington DC, March 2009
• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  TxLinux/MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System
  In Communications of the ACM, September 2008
• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System
  In IEEE Micro, Jan/Feb 2008.
• Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  TxLinux: Using and Managing Hardware Transactional Memory in an Operating System
  In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '07), Stevenson, WA October 2007
• Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett Witchel
  Solving Difficult HTM Problems Without Difficult Hardware
  In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Transactional Computing (TRANSACT '07), Portland, OR August 2007.
• Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Aditya Bhandari, Emmett Witchel
  MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory For An Operating System
  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture 2007 (ISCA '07), San Diego, CA June 2007.
• Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
  Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?
  In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS '07) San Diego, CA May 2007.
• Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Kevin Greenan, Owen Hofmann, Mark W. Storer, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt
  LiFS: An attribute-rich file system for storage class memories
  In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '06), College Park, MD May 2006.