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My research interests include the theory of programming languages and language-based security.  My advisor is Andrew Myers and I have also worked with Greg Morrisett.  The other members of my thesis committee are Fred Schneider and Karen Vogtmann.

Refereed Publications

Untrusted Hosts and Confidentiality: Secure Program Partitioning
Steve Zdancewic, Lantian Zheng, Nathaniel Nystrom, and Andrew C. Myers
Operating Systems Review, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'01)
volume 35(5). pages 1-14. Chateau Lake Louise, Banff, Canada. October 2001
Winner of a Best Paper Award.
(abstract, dvi, pdf, ps)

Robust Declassification
Steve Zdancewic  and Andrew C. Myers
Computer Security Foundations Workshop 14
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 2001
This version fixes a bug that appears in the proceedings.
(abstract, dvi, pdf, ps)

Secure Information Flow via Linear Continuations
Steve Zdancewic and Andrew C. Myers
To Appear: Higher Order and Symbolic Computation,2001
This is an extended version of the conference paper below.

Secure Information Flow and CPS
Steve Zdancewic and Andrew C. Myers
Proceedings of the 10th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP'01), volume 2028 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 46-61. Springer-Verlag, April 2001.
 (abstract, dvi, pdf, ps)

Syntactic Type Abstraction 
Dan Grossman, Greg Morrisett, Steve Zdancewic
In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 22(6), pages 1037-1080, November 2000
This is an extended version of the conference paper below.
(abstract, dvi, pdf, ps)

Principals in Programming Languages: A Syntactic Proof Technique
Steve Zdancewic, Dan Grossman, Greg Morrisett
In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
Paris, France, September 1999.
Winner of EAPLS Best Paper Award at PLI '99
(abstract, dvi, pdf, ps) 

TALx86: A Realistic Typed Assembly Language
Greg Morrisett, Karl Crary, Neal Glew, Dan Grossman, Richard Samuels, Frederick Smith, Dave Walker, Stephanie Weirich, and Steve Zdancewic
In 1999 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Compiler Support for System Software
Atlanta, GA, USA, May 1999.
(abstract, dvi, pdf, ps.gz)

Technical Reports

Secure Program Partitioning
Steve Zdancewic, Lantian Zheng, Nathaniel Nystrom, and Andrew C. Myers
Technical Report TR2001-1846, Cornell University Computer Science, October 2001
(abstract, dvi, ps)

Confidentiality and Integrity with Untrusted Hosts: Technical Report
Steve Zdancewic and Andrew C. Myers
Technical Report TR2000-1810, Cornell University Computer Science, August 2000
(dvi, pdf, ps)

Syntax and Semantics for Multiple Agents and Abstract Types
Steve Zdancewic, Dan Grossman
Technical Report TR99-1752, Cornell University Computer Science, May 1999
(abstract, dvi, pdf, ps)

Talks

A Syntactic Account of Type Abstraction, 6 Nov. 1998.  CMU's POP seminar.  
The slides are available in Postscript form: slides.ps.

Principals in Programming: A Syntactic Proof Technique, 28 Sept. 1999.   ICFP. 
Slides available in PowerPoint format: icfp99.ppt

Information Flow, Security and Programming Languages, 5 Nov. 1999. Cornell University PL Seminar. 
Slides available in PowerPoint format: security.ppt

Secure Information Flow and CPS, 4 April 2001. ESOP.
Slides available in PowerPoint format: esop01.ppt

Robust Declassification, 11 June 2001. CSFW.
Slides available in PowerPoint format: csfw01.ppt

Untrusted Hosts and Confidentiality: Secure Program Partitioning, 22 October 2001. SOSP.
Slides available in PowerPoint format: sosp01.ppt

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