David Chisnall

According to our database, David Chisnall authored at least 46 papers between 2005 and 2025.

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2025

It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety.

Robert N. M. Watson, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Tony Chen, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Graeme Jenkinson, Ben Laurie, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Hamed Okhravi, Alex Richardson, Alex Rebert, Peter Sewell, Laurence Tratt, Murali Vijayaraghavan, Hugo Vincent, Konrad Witaszczyk

Commun. ACM, February, 2025

2024

How to Design an ISA.

David Chisnall

Commun. ACM, May, 2024

How to Design an ISA: The popularity of RISC-V has led many to try designing instruction sets.

David Chisnall

ACM Queue, 2024

CHERI: Hardware-Enabled C/C++ Memory Protection at Scale.

Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Ben Laurie, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Alexander Richardson, Peter Sewell, Konrad Witaszczyk, Jonathan Woodruff

IEEE Secur. Priv., 2024

SoK: Software Compartmentalization.

Hugo Lefeuvre, Nathan Dautenhahn, David Chisnall, Pierre Olivier

CoRR, 2024

Formal Mechanised Semantics of CHERI C: Capabilities, Undefined Behaviour, and Provenance.

Vadim Zaliva, Kayvan Memarian, Ricardo Almeida, Jessica Clarke, Brooks Davis, Alexander Richardson, David Chisnall, Brian Campbell, Ian Stark, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell

Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024

Cornucopia Reloaded: Load Barriers for CHERI Heap Temporal Safety.

Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Jonathan Woodruff, Jessica Clarke, Peter Rugg, Brooks Davis, Mark Johnston, Robert M. Norton, David Chisnall, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2024

2023

When Concurrency Matters: Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency.

Luke Cheeseman, Matthew J. Parkinson, Sylvan Clebsch, Marios Kogias, Sophia Drossopoulou, David Chisnall, Tobias Wrigstad, Paul Liétar

Proc. ACM Program. Lang., October, 2023

Confidential Computing within an AI Accelerator.

Kapil Vaswani, Stavros Volos, Cédric Fournet, Antonio Nino Diaz, Ken Gordon, Balaji Vembu, Sam Webster, David Chisnall, Saurabh Kulkarni, Graham Cunningham, Richard Osborne, Dan Wilkinson

Proceedings of the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2023

CHERIoT: Complete Memory Safety for Embedded Devices.

Saar Amar, David Chisnall, Tony Chen, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Ben Laurie, Kunyan Liu, Robert M. Norton, Simon W. Moore, Yucong Tao, Robert N. M. Watson, Hongyan Xia

Proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2023

Towards (Really) Safe and Fast Confidential I/O.

Hugo Lefeuvre, David Chisnall, Marios Kogias, Pierre Olivier

Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, 2023

2022

Confidential Machine Learning within Graphcore IPUs.

Kapil Vaswani, Stavros Volos, Cédric Fournet, Antonio Nino Diaz, Ken Gordon, Balaji Vembu, Sam Webster, David Chisnall, Saurabh Kulkarni, Graham Cunningham, Richard Osborne, Dan Wilkinson

CoRR, 2022

A Secret-Free Hypervisor: Rethinking Isolation in the Age of Speculative Vulnerabilities.

Hongyan Xia, David Zhang, Wei Liu, István Haller, Bruce Sherwin, David Chisnall

Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2022

2021

Toward Confidential Cloud Computing: Extending hardware-enforced cryptographic protection to data while in use.

Mark Russinovich, Manuel Costa, Cédric Fournet, David Chisnall, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Sylvan Clebsch, Kapil Vaswani, Vikas Bhatia

ACM Queue, 2021

Secure Compilation (Dagstuhl Seminar 21481).

David Chisnall, Deepak Garg, Catalin Hritcu, Mathias Payer

Dagstuhl Reports, 2021

Toward confidential cloud computing.

Mark Russinovich, Manuel Costa, Cédric Fournet, David Chisnall, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Sylvan Clebsch, Kapil Vaswani, Vikas Bhatia

Commun. ACM, 2021

2020

Cornucopia: Temporal Safety for CHERI Heaps.

Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Jonathan Woodruff, Sam Ainsworth, Lucian Paul-Trifu, Brooks Davis, Hongyan Xia, Edward Tomasz Napierala, Alexander Richardson, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Khilan Gudka, Alexandre Joannou, A. Theodore Markettos, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe, Peter Sewell, Stacey D. Son, Timothy M. Jones, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2020

2019

CHERI Concentrate: Practical Compressed Capabilities.

Jonathan Woodruff, Alexandre Joannou, Hongyan Xia, Anthony C. J. Fox, Robert M. Norton, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, A. Theodore Markettos, Michael Roe, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson, Simon W. Moore

IEEE Trans. Computers, 2019

snmalloc: a message passing allocator.

Paul Liétar, Theodore Butler, Sylvan Clebsch, Sophia Drossopoulou, Juliana Franco, Matthew J. Parkinson, Alex Shamis, Christoph M. Wintersteiger, David Chisnall

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management, 2019

CheriABI: Enforcing Valid Pointer Provenance and Minimizing Pointer Privilege in the POSIX C Run-time Environment.

Brooks Davis, Robert N. M. Watson, Alexander Richardson, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, John Baldwin, David Chisnall, Jessica Clarke, Nathaniel Wesley Filardo, Khilan Gudka, Alexandre Joannou, Ben Laurie, A. Theodore Markettos, J. Edward Maste, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Edward Tomasz Napierala, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe, Peter Sewell, Stacey D. Son, Jonathan Woodruff

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2019

2018

C Is Not a Low-level Language.

David Chisnall

ACM Queue, 2018

CheriRTOS: A Capability Model for Embedded Devices.

Hongyan Xia, Jonathan Woodruff, Hadrien Barral, Lawrence Esswood, Alexandre Joannou, Robert Kovacsics, David Chisnall, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Edward Napierala, John Baldwin, Khilan Gudka, Peter G. Neumann, Alexander Richardson, Simon W. Moore, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2018

What You Get is What You C: Controlling Side Effects in Mainstream C Compilers.

Laurent Simon, David Chisnall, Ross J. Anderson

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2018

2017

Efficient Tagged Memory.

Alexandre Joannou, Jonathan Woodruff, Robert Kovacsics, Simon W. Moore, Alex Bradbury, Hongyan Xia, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Edward Napierala, John Baldwin, Khilan Gudka, Peter G. Neumann, Alfredo Mazzinghi, Alex Richardson, Stacey D. Son, A. Theodore Markettos

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, 2017

CHERI JNI: Sinking the Java Security Model into the C.

David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, David Brazdil, Alexandre Joannou, Jonathan Woodruff, A. Theodore Markettos, J. Edward Maste, Robert M. Norton, Stacey D. Son, Michael Roe, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Ben Laurie, Robert N. M. Watson

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2017

2016

Fast Protection-Domain Crossing in the CHERI Capability-System Architecture.

Robert N. M. Watson, Robert M. Norton, Jonathan Woodruff, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Michael Roe, Nirav H. Dave, Khilan Gudka, Alexandre Joannou, A. Theodore Markettos, Ed Maste, Steven J. Murdoch, Colin Rothwell, Stacey D. Son, Munraj Vadera

IEEE Micro, 2016

Into the depths of C: elaborating the de facto standards.

Kayvan Memarian, Justus Matthiesen, James Lingard, Kyndylan Nienhuis, David Chisnall, Robert N. M. Watson, Peter Sewell

Proceedings of the 37th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2016

2015

CHERI: A Hybrid Capability-System Architecture for Scalable Software Compartmentalization.

Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Woodruff, Peter G. Neumann, Simon W. Moore, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Nirav H. Dave, Brooks Davis, Khilan Gudka, Ben Laurie, Steven J. Murdoch, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe, Stacey D. Son, Munraj Vadera

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2015

Clean Application Compartmentalization with SOAAP.

Khilan Gudka, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, David Chisnall, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Ilias Marinos, Peter G. Neumann, Alex Richardson

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2015

Beyond the PDP-11: Architectural Support for a Memory-Safe C Abstract Machine.

David Chisnall, Colin Rothwell, Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Woodruff, Munraj Vadera, Simon W. Moore, Michael Roe, Brooks Davis, Peter G. Neumann

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2015

2014

Smalltalk in a C world.

David Chisnall

Sci. Comput. Program., 2014

There's No Such Thing as a General-purpose Processor.

David Chisnall

ACM Queue, 2014

No such thing as a general-purpose processor.

David Chisnall

Commun. ACM, 2014

The CHERI capability model: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk.

Jonathan Woodruff, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Simon W. Moore, Jonathan Anderson, Brooks Davis, Ben Laurie, Peter G. Neumann, Robert M. Norton, Michael Roe

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2014

TESLA: temporally enhanced system logic assertions.

Jonathan Anderson, Robert N. M. Watson, David Chisnall, Khilan Gudka, Ilias Marinos, Brooks Davis

Proceedings of the Ninth Eurosys Conference 2014, 2014

2013

The Challenge of Cross-language Interoperability.

David Chisnall

ACM Queue, 2013

2012

A New Objective-C Runtime: from Research to Production.

David Chisnall

ACM Queue, 2012

The Go Programming Language - Phrasebook.

David Chisnall

Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 978-0-321-81714-3, 2012

2010

Cocoa Programming - Developer's Handbook.

David Chisnall

Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 978-0-321-63963-9, 2010

2009

A Modern Objective-C Runtime.

David Chisnall

J. Object Technol., 2009

2007

Autonomic visualisation.

David Chisnall

PhD thesis, 2007

Ray-driven dynamic working set rendering.

David Chisnall, Min Chen, Charles D. Hansen

Vis. Comput., 2007

Adaptive Infrastructure for Visual Computing.

Kenneth W. Brodlie, John Brooke, Min Chen, David Chisnall, Chris J. Hughes, Nigel W. John, Mark W. Jones, Mark Riding, Nicolas Roard, Martin J. Turner, Jason D. Wood

Proceedings of the EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics, 2007

2006

Knowledge-Based Out-of-Core Algorithms for Data Management in Visualization.

David Chisnall, Min Chen, Charles D. Hansen

Proceedings of the 8th Joint Eurographics - IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization, 2006

The Making of SimEAC.

David Chisnall, Min Chen

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2006

2005

Visual Supercomputing: Technologies, Applications and Challenges.

Ken Brodlie, John Brooke, Min Chen, David Chisnall, Ade J. Fewings, Chris J. Hughes, Nigel W. John, Mark W. Jones, Mark Riding, Nicolas Roard

Comput. Graph. Forum, 2005