Nate Foster

Nate Foster

Office: 4137 Upson Hall
Phone: (607) 255-5210
Email: jnfoster[at]cs.cornell.edu

Research Overview

My research focuses on problems in programming languages, networks, and security. Some topics of interest include semantics, type systems, bidirectional languages, provenance, data synchronization, and mechanized proof. Recently I have also been working on domain-specific languages for networks.

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Recent Publications

Arjun Guha, Mark Reitblatt, and Nate Foster. Machine-Verified Network Controllers. In ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Seattle, WA, June 2013. To appear.

Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, and David Walker. Composing Software Defined Networks. In USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Lombard, IL, April 2013. To appear. [ conference version ]

Nate Foster, Arjun Guha, Mark Reitblatt, Alec Story, Michael J. Freedman, Naga Praveen Katta, Christopher Monsanto, Joshua Reich, Jennifer Rexford, Cole Schlesinger, David Walker, and Rob Harrison. Languages for software-defined networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 51(2):128-134, 2013. [ pdf | official version ]

Mark Reitblatt, Nate Foster, Jennifer Rexford, Cole Schlesinger, and David Walker. Abstractions for Network Update. In ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM), Helsinki, Finland, pages 323-334, August 2012. [ conference version ]

Stephen Gutz, Alec Story, Cole Schlesinger, and Nate Foster. Splendid Isolation: A Slice Abstraction for Software-Defined Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Helsinki, Finland, pages 79-84, August 2012. [ conference version ]

Nate Foster, Kazutaka Matsuda, and Janis Voigtländer. Three Complementary Approaches to Bidirectional Programming. In International Spring School on Generic and Indexed Programming (SSGIP), Oxford, UK, pages 1-46, May 2012. Invited paper. [ conference version ]

Christopher Monsanto, Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, and David Walker. A Compiler and Run-time System for Network Programs. In ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Philadelphia, PA, pages 217-230, January 2012. [ conference version ]

Research Group

I work with a great group of students and postdocs.

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Last updated January 2012