formal methods

In this episode, I talk about two papers from the 3rd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains, 2021.  Also, I am continuing my request for your small donations ($5 or $10 would be awesome) to pay my podcast-hosting fees at Buzzsprout.  To donate, click here, and then under "Gift details" select "Search for additional options" and then search for Computer Science.  Select the Computer Science Development Fund, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Then add gift instructions saying that this is to support the Iowa Type Theory Commute podcast of Aaron Stump.  Sorry it's that complicated.

In this episode, I discuss this paper, "Mi-Cho-Coq, a Framework for Certifying
Tezos Smart Contracts", by Bernardo et al.  The paper gives a nice and very clear introduction to the Michelson language, and a formalization of it in Coq.  This is used to prove a correctness property about a Multisig contract.

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In this episode (proudly wearing my "I am not an expert" hat), I discuss efforts by Runtime Verification to verify the Dexter2 defi smart contract, using their K-Michelson tool, which provides an executable description of the operational semantics of the Michelson language used for smart contracts on the Tezos blockchain.

I start off a new chapter (seventeen!) of the podcast, to talk about formal methods for blockchain systems.  In the next few episodes, we will look at some verification efforts related to the Tezos blockchain.

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Kathleen Fisher, who was chair of the Computer Science department at Tufts University at the time of the interview. We talk about Kathleen’s experience in applying formal methods and PL theory to solve significant practical problems throughout her career. Equally important, we discuss how it came to be that she is practically a pro at golf!

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Dr. Kathleen Fisher: https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-kathleen-fisher 

HACMS: https://www.darpa.mil/program/high-assurance-cyber-military-systems PADS: https://pads.cs.tufts.edu/about.html 

From Dirt to Shovels paper: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/papers/learningpopl08-final.pdf 

Hancock: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/331960.331981

PLMW: http://sigplan.org/Conferences/PLMW/ CRAW: https://cra.org/cra-wp/ 

NSF Broadening Participation in Computing: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/broadening-participation-computing-bpc-0 

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Talia Ringer, a Ph.D. candidate at University of Washington, explains how they do deep people-centric PL research. We discuss proof repair, UX for software correctness, and how to ask users of tools for feedback to react to.

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Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ 

Talia Ringer: https://dependenttyp.es/ 

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Video of this podcast can be found on our Youtube channel. 

Jean Yang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-yang-96575030/

Akita Software: https://www.akitasoftware.com/

Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/

Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/

Shpat Morina:  https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/

Contact us: marketing@galois.com