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Talking with Lecturers: Gernot Heiser

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Subrat and Shane chat to the lecturer of the infamous Advanced Operating Systems course at UNSW, ✨ Gernot Heiser ✨! In an episode packed with brain 🧠 bending topics, they dive into not just lecturing, but also his decorated research career, as Gernot discusses:

  • Being the FIRST team in the world 🌏 to formally prove the security 🔒 of an operating system - seL4
  • How seL4 has been used in autonomous cars 🚗, helicopters 🚁 and iPhones 📱
  • The mistakes made 😞 and lessons learnt 💪 from building a startup

    • Timestamps

    1:00 Getting into Operating Systems

    15:49 Importance of OS
    23:09 Industry vs academia
    29:40 Microkernels and working with Qualcomm
    41:42 Starting OpenKernelLabs
    49:06 Developing and using seL4 - the world’s first formally verified operating system
    1:23:19 Creating and lecturing the Advanced Operating Systems course
    1:35:40 Interests, hobbies, and food
    1:40:30 Reflection on failures and learnings, and advice for students

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