<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Edward J. Schwartz: Computer Science Researcher]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edward J. Schwartz: Computer Science Researcher]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io</link><generator>GatsbyJS</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:16:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The End of OOAnalyzer-ASP... For Now]]></title><description><![CDATA[I previously wrote about
OOAnalyzer-ASP,
an experimental reimagining of the OOAnalyzer tool using Answer Set Programming.
I have bad news: I…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-08-08--the-end-of-oo-analyzer-asp-for-now/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-08-08--the-end-of-oo-analyzer-asp-for-now/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benchmarking Quantized LLMs for Local Coding Agents Part 4: Investigating the Impact of Thinking on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Part
1
and Part
2,
I reported some peculiar behavior for quantized Qwen3.5-2B models.  In Part 3,
I reported results for a larger variant…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-07-22--benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-4-investigating-the-impact-of-thinking-on-qwen3-5-35-b-a3-b/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-07-22--benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-4-investigating-the-impact-of-thinking-on-qwen3-5-35-b-a3-b/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benchmarking Quantized LLMs for Local Coding Agents Part 3: Investigating the Performance of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Take 2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Part
1
and Part
2,
I reported some peculiar behavior for quantized Qwen3.5-2B models.  In Part 3
Take
1,
I reported early results for a…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-07-04--benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-3-investigating-the-performance-of-qwen3-5-35-b-a3-b-take-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-07-04--benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-3-investigating-the-performance-of-qwen3-5-35-b-a3-b-take-2/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benchmarking Quantized LLMs for Local Coding Agents Part 3: Investigating the Performance of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Take 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[This post contains a broken experiment in which thinking was inadvertently enabled but did not use sampling parameters intended for thinking…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-06-12--auto-bench-benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-06-12--auto-bench-benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-3/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benchmarking Quantized LLMs for Local Coding Agents Part 2: Testing all instances of SWE-bench Verified]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Part 1,
I introduced auto-bench, a tool for benchmarking quantized LLMs for local coding
agents, and shared some results from a…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-06-04--auto-bench-benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-06-04--auto-bench-benchmarking-quantized-ll-ms-for-local-coding-agents-part-2/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[ASP: Towards the Next Generation OOAnalyzer]]></title><description><![CDATA[OOAnalyzer is one of my favorite projects for a few reasons.  The underlying problem is deceptively hard.  If you look closely enough, OO…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-05-28--towards-the-next-generation-oo-analyzer/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-05-28--towards-the-next-generation-oo-analyzer/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-hosted MCP Servers for Daily Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like many people, when I'm on the go and need to do something, I reach for an LLM
assistant. In my case, that's Claude. Anthropic, OpenAI…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-05-20--self-hosted-mcp-servers-for-daily-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-05-20--self-hosted-mcp-servers-for-daily-life/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[auto-bench: Benchmarking Quantized LLMs for Local Coding Agents]]></title><description><![CDATA[New open LLMs are released constantly and keep improving. Gemma 4 was recently claimed to be groundbreaking, but when I tried the quantized…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-05-15--commonsense-benchmarks-for-local-coding-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-05-15--commonsense-benchmarks-for-local-coding-agents/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["Idioms: A Simple and Effective Framework for Turbo-Charging Local Neural Decompilation with Well-Defined Types" Accepted to NDSS 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce that my student Luke Dramko's paper "Idioms: A Simple and Effective Framework for Turbo-Charging Local Neural…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-01-15--idioms-a-simple-and-effective-framework-for-turbo-charging-local-neural-decompilation-with-well-defined-types-accepted-to-ndss-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2026-01-15--idioms-a-simple-and-effective-framework-for-turbo-charging-local-neural-decompilation-with-well-defined-types-accepted-to-ndss-2026/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musings on Decompilation Artifacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Apologies in advance, this is probably going to be rambling.) I spend a lot of time looking at various research artifacts.  Yesterday, I…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-12-06--musings-on-decompilation-artifacts/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-12-06--musings-on-decompilation-artifacts/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias Blocking in Ghidra's Decompiler]]></title><description><![CDATA[My colleague Cory Cohen recently asked me to take a look at some surprising
behavior in Ghidra's decompiler.  He had a decompiled function…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-11-06--alias-blocking-in-ghidra-s-decompiler/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-11-06--alias-blocking-in-ghidra-s-decompiler/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["Systematic Testing of C++ Abstraction Recovery Systems by Iterative Compiler Model Refinement" Published at SURE 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[Systematic Testing of C++ Abstraction Recovery Systems by Iterative Compiler Model Refinement I'm excited to announce that our paper…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-10-15--systematic-testing-of-c-abstraction-recovery-systems-by-iterative-compiler-model-refinement-published-at-sure-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-10-15--systematic-testing-of-c-abstraction-recovery-systems-by-iterative-compiler-model-refinement-published-at-sure-2025/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["Quantifying and Mitigating the Impact of Obfuscations on Machine-Learning-Based Decompilation Improvement" Published at DIMVA 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[🎉 New Research Published at DIMVA 2025 I'm excited to announce that "Quantifying and Mitigating the Impact of Obfuscations on Machine…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-07-11--quantifying-and-mitigating-the-impact-of-obfuscations-on-machine-learning-based-decompilation-improvement-published-at-dimva-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-07-11--quantifying-and-mitigating-the-impact-of-obfuscations-on-machine-learning-based-decompilation-improvement-published-at-dimva-2025/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["A Human Study of Automatically Generated Decompiler Annotations" Published at DSN 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[🎉 New Research Published at DSN 2025 I'm excited to announce that "A Human Study of Automatically Generated Decompiler Annotations" has…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-06-16--a-human-study-of-automatically-generated-decompiler-annotations-published-at-dsn-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-06-16--a-human-study-of-automatically-generated-decompiler-annotations-published-at-dsn-2025/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-compiling Decompiler Output]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many people seem to be unaware that decompilers have a decompilation export feature, which is particularly beneficial when you are trying to…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-05-02--re-compiling-ghidra-decompiler-output/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-05-02--re-compiling-ghidra-decompiler-output/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notes: Neural Decompiler Artifacts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can existing neural decompiler artifacts be used to run on a new example?  Here are some notes on the current state of the art.  I assign…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-02-25--notes-neural-decompiler-artifacts/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-02-25--notes-neural-decompiler-artifacts/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LangChain and Ollama Make Building Local Tool Calling Agents Easy. It's a Shame They Don't Work! (Part 2/?)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Part 1, we showed that tool-calling agents built using open source LLMs and LangChain almost universally performed poorly.  They…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-02-21--lang-chain-and-ollama-make-building-local-tool-calling-agents-easy-it-s-a-shame-they-don-t-work-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-02-21--lang-chain-and-ollama-make-building-local-tool-calling-agents-easy-it-s-a-shame-they-don-t-work-part-2/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Personal Manifesto]]></title><description><![CDATA[Given the recent change in government here in the US, I've been thinking a lot
about my personal beliefs and values. As part of this process…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-01-23--a-personal-manifesto/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2025-01-23--a-personal-manifesto/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hello BQN! Goodbye APL and Uiua.]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past several years, I've been using Advent of
Code as an excuse to do some professional
development and learn new languages.  The…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-12-20--hello-bqn-goodbye-apl-and-uiua/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-12-20--hello-bqn-goodbye-apl-and-uiua/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[LangChain and Ollama Make Building Local Tool Calling Agents Easy. It's a Shame They Don't Work! (Part 1/?)]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting possibilities of AI and LLMs are agents: tools that
allow LLMs to interact with various tools in order to solve…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-12-16--building-local-tool-calling-agents-is-easy-too-bad-they-do-not-work--part1/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-12-16--building-local-tool-calling-agents-is-easy-too-bad-they-do-not-work--part1/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BlueSky and EchoFeed]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently signed up for
BlueSky.  I just learned of a
new service, EchoFeed, that polls RSS feeds and posts
the content to BlueSky (and…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-11-26--echo-feed/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-11-26--echo-feed/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notes: Power washing mixture for vinyl]]></title><description><![CDATA[This page documents my experience with "pressure washing" my vinyl fence and
siding.  I have pressure washing in quotes, because it's SH or…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-11-17--note-power-washing-mixture/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-11-17--note-power-washing-mixture/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notes: Profiling]]></title><description><![CDATA[At some point, I hope to create a Notes section on my website that will turn Markdown files into a list of notes. This is basically how the…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-11-14--notes-profiling/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-11-14--notes-profiling/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dog on the Run]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fostering My wife and I started fostering rescue dogs mostly by accident.  We adopted a
Shih-tzu mix, who seemed completely relaxed when we…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-07-19--a-dog-on-the-run/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-07-19--a-dog-on-the-run/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advanced Automation using Ansible and Dorothy]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my last
post
I talked about how I have been using Ansible for my new laptop configuration,
and shared my configuration for notion. So far…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-05-10--advanced-automation-using-ansible-and-dorothy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-05-10--advanced-automation-using-ansible-and-dorothy/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creating a modern-ish, usable Linux desktop with notion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometime while I was in graduate school, I started using the
notion window manager.  (Actually, at the time, I
think it was ion3.)  Notion…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-04-20--creating-a-modern-ish-usable-linux-desktop-with-notion/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-04-20--creating-a-modern-ish-usable-linux-desktop-with-notion/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initial Thoughts on Owning an Electric Vehicle]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm a serial car leaser.  This December, when my old lease was running out,
there were not a lot of very appealing lease deals.  Some of the…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-03-05--initial-thoughts-on-owning-an-electric-vehicle/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-03-05--initial-thoughts-on-owning-an-electric-vehicle/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the thrilling world of ones and zeros...]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was playing around with ChatGPT and it came up with this gem: In the thrilling world of ones and zeros, where the mere thought of assembly…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-02-26--in-the-thrilling-world-of-ones-and-zeros/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-02-26--in-the-thrilling-world-of-ones-and-zeros/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick Thoughts: "Security must be a business enabler, not a hinderer."]]></title><description><![CDATA[I saw a quote in a recent ACM article
that resonated with me: Security must be a business enabler, not a hinderer. The article is about…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-02-25--quick-thoughts-security-must-be-a-business-enabler-not-a-hinderer/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-02-25--quick-thoughts-security-must-be-a-business-enabler-not-a-hinderer/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[On The Performance of Hashing for Similar Function Detection]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine that you reverse engineered a piece of malware in pain-staking detail,
only to find that the malware author created a slightly…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-01-11--fuzzy-hashing-for-code-comparisons/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2024-01-11--fuzzy-hashing-for-code-comparisons/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflections on Advent of Code 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!  I just completed Advent of
Code 2023, and wanted to jot down a few reflections
before I…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-12-26--reflections-on-advent-of-code-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-12-26--reflections-on-advent-of-code-2023/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Click for Full Screen]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been working on a blog post that has some interesting images in it.
Unfortunately, my blog view is narrow, which makes it hard to see…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-25--click-for-full-screen/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-25--click-for-full-screen/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debugging the Ghidra Decompiler]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to document a few things that I do infrequently enough that I tend to
forget how to do them, and need to rediscover the process…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-14--debugging-the-ghidra-decompiler/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-14--debugging-the-ghidra-decompiler/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mainline Kernels on Ubuntu Jammy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is necessary to use a bleeding edge Linux kernel such as
 to debug hardware issues.  In this post, I'll discuss how to do
this…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-08--mainline-kernels-on-ubuntu-jammy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-08--mainline-kernels-on-ubuntu-jammy/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pulse Secure, systemd-resolved and Chrome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some days I hate computers.  Today is one of those days.  My work computer froze
over the weekend (which is another long, frustrating story…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-06--pulse-secure-systemd-resolved-and-chrome/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-11-06--pulse-secure-systemd-resolved-and-chrome/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is It a Function or an OO Method?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been feeling left behind by all the exciting news surrounding AI, so I've
been quietly working on a project to get myself up to speed…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-09-28--function-or-oo-method/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-09-28--function-or-oo-method/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[BLISTER Summit 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've mentioned a few times that I'm an avid skier.  I live in central
Pennsylvania though, and so the skiing is not always the best, to say…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-04-08--blister-summit-23/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-04-08--blister-summit-23/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initial thoughts on Rust]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last December, I did most of Advent of Code in
Rust, which I had never used before.  You can find my solutions
here. The Good Modern syntax…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-01-24--initial-thoughts-on-rust/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-01-24--initial-thoughts-on-rust/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CPOSC 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[My family and I had quite the day attending the 2023 Central Pennsylvania Open
Source Conference (CPOSC) yesterday at the Ware Center
in…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-04-02--cposc-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-04-02--cposc-2023/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey" receives IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2021 Best Paper Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[Right before the holidays, I, along with my co-authors of the journal article The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-01-16--ieee-transactions-on-software-engineering-2021-best-paper-award/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2023-01-16--ieee-transactions-on-software-engineering-2021-best-paper-award/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distinguished Papers]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's been an exciting year so far.  I'm happy to announce that two
papers I co-authored received awards.  Congratulations to the students…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2022-08-11--distinguished-papers/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2022-08-11--distinguished-papers/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA["A Generic Technique for Automatically Finding Defense-Aware Code Reuse Attacks" To Be Published at CCS20, Pre-publication Available]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce that a paper written with my colleagues, A
Generic Technique for Automatically Finding Defense-Aware Code Reuse…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-08-19--a-generic-technique-for-automatically-finding-defense-aware-code-reuse-attacks-to-be-published-at-ccs20-pre-publication-available/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-08-19--a-generic-technique-for-automatically-finding-defense-aware-code-reuse-attacks-to-be-published-at-ccs20-pre-publication-available/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research vs. Engineering]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the aspects I like about my job as a researcher at
SEI is that I split my time between being an
academic researcher and a software…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-04-06--research-vs-engineering/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-04-06--research-vs-engineering/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DIRE ASE 2019 Camera Ready Available]]></title><description><![CDATA[My colleagues and I finished the camera ready version of our DIRE paper on variable name recovery.
Although there's no code released at this…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2019-09-22--dire-camera-ready-available/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2019-09-22--dire-camera-ready-available/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA['The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey' Published in IEEE TSE and ICSE 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[My colleagues and I wrote a survey paper on fuzzing entitled The
Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey.  Late last
year this…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-02-11--february-2020-update/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-02-11--february-2020-update/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rabbit Hole of Multi-line URLs]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm a long time user of weechat.  I don't
really use IRC anymore, but I use it to connect to
bitlbee for IMs, slack, and so on. I really…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-04-01--the-rabbit-hole-of-multi-line-ur-ls/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2020-04-01--the-rabbit-hole-of-multi-line-ur-ls/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[August 2019 Updates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Variable Recovery As far back as I can remember, one of the accepted dogmas of reverse engineering is that when a program is compiled, some…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2019-08-17--august-2019-updates/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2019-08-17--august-2019-updates/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zermatt, Switzerland: My Thoughts and Tips]]></title><description><![CDATA[Many people don't know that in addition to my work with computers, I'm very passionate about exercise and fitness.  I enjoy circuit training…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2019-01-21--zermatt-switzerland-my-thoughts-and-tips/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2019-01-21--zermatt-switzerland-my-thoughts-and-tips/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theming Semantic UI React in GatsbyJS]]></title><description><![CDATA[Semantic UI comes with the ability to add themes,
but this must be done at build time.  Semantic UI is built using
LESS, a CSS pre…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2018-12-31--theming-semantic-ui-react-in-gatsby-js/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2018-12-31--theming-semantic-ui-react-in-gatsby-js/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to my new blog!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hi there.  This is my first blog entry on my new website. This Christmas break, my wife and I decided to update our websites.  Her website…]]></description><link>https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2018-12-28--web-technologies/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://edmcman.github.io/blog/2018-12-28--web-technologies/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>