Pylons: Powerful Web Development

David Paola, Senior in CS

Thursday, 2/18 at 5:00pm in 2405 Siebel

Learn how to quickly create and deploy web sites or applications. Pylons is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) web framework that uses the popular Python programming language. video

The Gazelle Web Browser

Chris Grier, Graduate Student in CS

Thursday, 4/9 at 5:30pm in 2405 Siebel

Web browsers began as applications used to view static HTML content. As web sites evolved into dynamic applications composing content from various web sites, browsers have become multi-principal operating environments responsible for securely managing resources shared between mutually distrusting web sites.

In this talk, Chris will discuss the design of the Gazelle web browser. Gazelle is a web browser designed and constructed as a multi-principal operating system. Constructing a browser as an OS exposes intricate security and design issues that other browsers have yet to address. Chris will talk about the security issues that were uncovered and how Gazelle addresses them.