The last two days I’ve spent at NIST attending the Software Assurance Forum. This has been really enjoyable for me! I am visiting a long time friend in Gaithersburg, MD who works at NIST and organized the Static Analysis Tools Expo as part of the conference. There has been a lot of development in the last few years on automating tools to check for various problems in code. The goal is somewhat related to the formal methods being studied in the lab I worked with in grad school in that both are trying to show that programs are correct although the approach is very different. Analysis of programs is done in different ways by different vendors – some on the source code, some on the executable. The SATE project is looking at various tools to do empirical research on large data sets. Seven or eight tool vendors participated this year using their tools and analysis of real world programs and associated CVEs. There is some very exceptional work going on in this field.
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Yesterday, I did get to hear John Lyons and Pat Parelli speak. I have admired Pat Parelli’s natural horsemanship method for many years. I need to think how to apply the same concepts to dog training especially service dog training. He is of course working with a prey species whereas dogs are a predator species. But the same principles of Love, Language and Leadership hold with any species. They just need to be applied in a different way. I have always liked the idea of the seven games. Anyway, I digress, this post is about traveling not dog training. I left home on Friday and made a brief stop to visit a friend in Champaign, Illinois. Saturday I drove on through Indiana and into Kentucky. My friend and I haven’t gotten together in probably 7 years or so, maybe longer, so it was great to see her again! We have known each other since we attended college together. We’ve spent the last several days together taking in the World Equestrian Games and Lexington, KY. It’s been great! Today I leave to head further east. I plan to stop wherever I stop and see whatever I see, but end up in the Washington, DC area in a couple days where I’ll visit another college friend and attend a workshop at NIST. If you want to read more about the trip, check out the posts on Tamarr Memorial Fund blog. They are written from Merlyn’s perspective mostly and are a lot more fun and informative. |
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