Speaker: Brad Chen, Google
Title: Native Client - A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code

Abstract:

Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86
native code in web applications, with the goal of maintaining the
browser neutrality, OS portability, and safety that people expect from
web apps. Native Client uses software fault isolation and a
specialized runtime to direct all system interaction and side effects
through managed interfaces. It  supports performance-oriented features
generally absent from web application programming environments, such
as thread support, instruction set extensions such as SSE, and use of
compiler intrinsics and hand-coded assembler. We combine these
properties in an open architecture designed to leverage existing web
standards, and to encourage community review and 3rd-party tools. This
technical talk will cover system design and implementation, and some
of our experiences securing and using the system.

In December 2008 we open-sourced this system. For more information and
resources see http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient

About the speaker:

J. Bradley Chen manages the Native Client project at Google, where he
has also worked on cluster performance analysis projects. Prior to
joining Google, he was Director of the Performance Tools Lab in
Intel's Software Products Division. Chen served on the faculty of
Harvard University from 1994-1998, conducting research in operating
systems, computer architecture and distributed system, and teaching a
variety of related graduate and undergraduate courses. He has
published widely on the subjects of systems performance and computer
architecture. Dr. Chen has bachelors and masters degrees from Stanford
University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.