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Diba Mirza, an associate teaching professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR) from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). The national award recognizes four faculty each year who have demonstrated outstanding mentorship by providing high-quality research opportunities to students, recruiting women and other underrepresented students, and encouraging and advancing undergraduates in computing-related fields. The MAUR is very prestigious, and I am very honored to receive it, said Mirza, who joined UCSB s faculty in 2016. The award serves as a reminder to continue my commitment to students and carve out time every week to mentor them. It also celebrates the computer science department s success in supporting undergraduate research and the collaborative culture that makes such efforts possible.
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The need to patch a problem in a program that is embedded in an existing system, perhaps to introduce or enhance security, is a common one, according to UC Santa Barbara computer science professor Giovanni Vigna. But, why would you do that? he asks rhetorically. Why not just write a different program? Because sometimes it s not possible, or it would require a very substantial effort, he answers. Sometimes, you re given a program to patch, and you don t have the source code to modify it at that level and recompile it. Many embedded computer systems, such as those in trucks, airplanes and medical devices, run on software for which the source code and the original compilation toolchain are unavailable, said Antonio Bianchi, an assistant professor at Purdue University who studied in Vigna s lab while pursuing his doctorate at UCSB. Many old software components running in these systems are known to contain vulnerabilities, but patching them is not always easy or eve
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