Eric Larson's Research

Research Interests:

My primary areas of research are in software bug detection and program analysis. I am also interested in software testing, debugging, and software development. In the past, I have done work in computer architecture and simulation.

Selected Research Publications:

SUDS: An Infrastructure for Creating Bug Detection Tools (Paper; Software)

Eric Larson

Journal of Automated Software Engineering, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2010.

(Earlier version appeared at SCAM 2007: Paper, Slides)

 

A Plethora of Paths (Paper; Slides)

Eric Larson

17th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), May 2009

High Coverage Detection of Input-related Security Faults (Paper; Slides)
Eric Larson and Todd Austin
12th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '03), August 2003

MASE: A Novel Infrastructure for Detailed Microarchitectural Modeling (Paper; Slides)
Eric Larson, Saugata Chatterjee, and Todd Austin
2001 International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), November 2001

Compiler Controlled Value Prediction using Branch Predictor Based Confidence (Paper; Slides)
Eric Larson and Todd Austin
33rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2000

Computer Science Education Publications:

A Simple but Realistic Assembly Language for a Course in Computer Organization (Paper; Slides; Software)

Eric Larson and Moon Ok Kim

38th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), October 2008

 

Performing Engineering Research at Non-Ph.D. Granting Institutions (Paper; Slides)

Eric Larson and Agnieszka Miguel

2007 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2007

 

Efficient and Effective Grading of Student Work (Paper; Slides)

Agnieszka Miguel and Eric Larson

2006 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2006

 

An Undergraduate Course on Software Bug Detection Tools and Techniques (Paper; Slides)

Eric Larson

ACM SIGCSE 2006 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2006

 

Ph.D. Dissertation:

My Ph.D. thesis is titled "Efficient Dynamic Detection of Input Related Software Faults" and was completed at the University of Michigan in Spring 2004 under the guidance of Todd Austin

Software:

SUDS: An infrastructure for creating dynamic software bug detection tools

ANNA: Assembler and simulator for a simple MIPS-based assembly language

MASE / SimpleScalar: A suite of microarchitectural simulators (Note: I no longer work on MASE or SimpleScalar)

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