Risky Business #120 -- Professor Gernot Heiser discusses Australia's "perfect" microkernel
Fri, 08/21/2009 - 15:12
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This week's edition of Risky Business is brought to you by Sophos and hosted by Vigabyte virtual hosting.
On this week's show we chat with Professor Gernot Heiser. He's the chief Technology Officer of OK-Labs, or Open Kernel Labs. The company makes software for embedded systems, and recently NICTA -- that's a government funded technology R&D lab -- has claimed to have mathematically verified one of the OK-labs kernels as being mathematically perfect. No buffer overflows. No null pointer dereferences. No divide by zeros.
The Prof stops by to explain what this all means.
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