Edward J. Schwartz: Computer Science Researcher

Edward J. SchwartzComputer Security Researcher1 min. read

My family and I had quite the day attending the 2023 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference (CPOSC) yesterday at the Ware Center in Lancaster, PA. In addition to attending, we spoke in three different talks!

My wife, Dr. Stephanie Schwartz, kicked things off.

Stephanie
presenting — Stephanie presenting

She gave a short introduction on Random Forests as an introduction for her student Samantha Noggle, in "Machine Learning Techniques to Improve Users' Music Listening Experiences". I thought Samantha did a great job on her presentation. It was an interesting topic that she presented at just the right level of detail.

Next, my step son Nick Elzer, along with his coworker from Quub, Nathaniel Every, gave his first ever public conference presentation, and did a great job!

Nick and Nathaniel
presenting — Nick and Nathaniel presenting

Their presentation was "SpaceHeX Beta1.0 Release - What If, For Space Hardware Development, We Put Each Egg In Its Own Basket?", and was about SpaceHex, a prototyping system they open sourced to make it easier for people to break into satellite development. They also demoed a pretty sweet omnidirectional rover that they built (at 2am the night before, naturally).

Started the open source repo for our space hardware development platform https://t.co/cRzHZkM6Gg

Had a blast presenting with @Nick_elzer for @quubspace!

Thank you @CPOSC for having us! pic.twitter.com/eRoHm5ea2u
— Nathaniel Evry (@NathanielEvry) April 1, 2023

Finally, I gave a tutorial presentation called "Introduction to Exploiting Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities". If you want, you can follow along here and the videos below.

After a few years of hiatus, it was great to have CPOSC 2023 be back in person again. I saw a number of great presentations, and met a lot of interesting and smart people. It's always surprising how many technical people work in an area that is known for its rural farming!

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