Measuring and Improving Memory's Resistance to Software Corruption; Relational Instruction

长期以来，系统设计人员一直认为，由于内存的易失性和易受软件损坏的影响，内存不能可靠地存储永久数据。内存的不可靠性迫使一些应用程序将数据写入磁盘，从而降低了系统性能，并损害了可靠性，迫使关心性能的应用程序在崩溃时丢弃30秒的数据。这份职业规划的主要研究目标是1)使内存即使在操作系统或数据库错误的情况下也能可靠地存储永久数据；以及2)测量软件故障损坏内存的频率，无论有没有额外的保护。这份职业生涯规划的主要教育技巧是关系指导：花时间和精力与学生个人交往。这项计划提出了几种简单的方法，如集体午餐，在大班本科生中有效地做到这一点；先前的经验证明，以个人方式关心学生如何激励他们学习。

System designers have long assumed that memory cannot reliably store permanent data because of memory's volatility and vulnerability to software corruption. Memory's unreliability slows system performance by forcing some applications to write data through to disk and hurts reliability for forcing applications that care about performance to throw away 30 seconds of data on a crash. The primary research goals of this CAREER plan are 1) to enable memory to reliably store permanent data even in the presence of operating system or database errors; and 2) to measure how often software faults corrupt memory, both with and without extra protection. The primary education technique of this CAREER plan is relation instruction: spending time and effort relating with students personally. This plan suggests several simple ways, such as group lunches, to do this effectively with large, undergraduate classes; prior experience attests to how caring for students in a personal manner motivates them to learn.