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  1. Michael Bailey and Rachel Greenblatt (Ed.)
    Android’s filesystem access control provides a foundation for system integrity. It combines mandatory (e.g., SEAndroid) and discretionary (e.g., Unix permissions) access control, protecting both the Android platform from Android/OEM ser- vices and Android/OEM services from third-party applications. However, OEMs often introduce vulnerabilities when they add market-differentiating features and fail to correctly reconfigure this complex combination of policies. In this paper, we propose the PolyScope tool to triage Android systems for vulnerabilities using their filesystem access control policies by: (1) identifying the resources that subjects are authorized to use that may be modified by their adversaries, both with and without policy manipulations, and (2) determining the attack operations on those resources that are actually available to adversaries to reveal the specific cases that need vulnerability testing. A key insight is that adversaries may exploit discretionary elements in Android access control to expand the permissions available to themselves and/or vic- tims to launch attack operations, which we call permission expansion. We apply PolyScope to five Google and five OEM Android releases and find that permission expansion increases the privilege available to launch attacks, sometimes by more than 10x, but a significant fraction (about 15-20%) cannot be converted into attack operations due to other system configurations. Based on this analysis, we describe two previously unknown vulnerabilities and show how PolyScope helps OEMs triage the complex combination of access control policies down to attack operations worthy of testing. 
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  2. A major challenge for online learning is the inability of systems to support student emotion and to maintain student engagement. In response to this challenge, computer vision has become an embedded feature in some instructional applications. In this paper, we propose a video dataset of college students solving math problems on the educational platform MathSpring.org with a front facing camera collecting visual feedback of student gestures. The video dataset is annotated to indicate whether students’ attention at specific frames is engaged or wandering. In addition, we train baselines for a computer vision module that determines the extent of student engagement during remote learning. Baselines include state-of-the-art deep learning image classifiers and traditional conditional and logistic regression for head pose estimation. We then incorporate a gaze baseline into the MathSpring learning platform, and we are evaluating its performance with the currently implemented approach. 
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    For robots using motion planning algorithms such as RRT and RRT*, the computational load can vary by orders of magnitude as the complexity of the local environment changes. To adaptively provide such computation, we propose Fog Robotics algorithms in which cloud-based serverless lambda computing provides parallel computation on demand. To use this parallelism, we propose novel motion planning algorithms that scale effectively with an increasing number of serverless computers. However, given that the allocation of computing is typically bounded by both monetary and time constraints, we show how prior learning can be used to efficiently allocate resources at runtime. We demonstrate the algorithms and application of learned parallel allocation in both simulation and with the Fetch commercial mobile manipulator using Amazon Lambda to complete a sequence of sporadically computationally intensive motion planning tasks. 
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