Cătălin Hriţcu

Architectural Support for Software-Defined Metadata Processing

2015

Optimized hardware for propagating and checking software-programmable metadata tags can achieve low runtime overhead. We generalize prior work on hardware tagging by considering a generic architecture that supports software-defined policies over metadata of arbitrary size …

Project Everest: Perspectives from Developing Industrial-Grade High-Assurance Software

2026 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

Project Everest began at Microsoft Research in 2016, aiming to spur research in program verification to produce industrial-grade software. In collaboration with INRIA and Carnegie Mellon University, Project Everest’s goal was to produce drop-in verified …