$200,000 Microsoft Award Presented to Greek PhD Student

By Stella Tsolakidou on August 2, 2012 in New York, News



Microsoft Corp.'s Trustworthy Computing Group named Vasilis Pappas the winner of the company's first-ever BlueHat Prize contest, a competition that awards the development of new, innovative computer security defense technologies. The company presented Pappas, currently a Ph.D. student at Columbia University in New York, with $200,000 at the Microsoft Researcher Appreciation Party.

kBouncer, the winning entry among 20 submissions, detects abnormal control transfers using the Last Branch Recording feature of Intel processors to mitigate Return Oriented Programming (ROP). ROP is an advanced technique that attackers use to combine short pieces of benign code, already present in a system, for a malicious purpose. By using supported hardware features, kBouncer can be implemented with lower cost to performance and development time.

All three BlueHat Prize finalists designed technologies to mitigate attacks that leverage ROP, underscoring how prominent the exploitation technique is today. Microsoft awarded first runner-up, Ivan Fratric, $50,000 for his submission, called ROPGuard, and a surprise $10,000 cash reward was given to the second runner-up, Jared DeMott, for /ROP. In addition to the monetary prizes, the company gave all three winners subscriptions to the Microsoft Developer Network valued at $10,000 each.

The BlueHat Prize competition was designed to challenge the security community to look beyond the norm of problems, such as vulnerabilities, and instead focus on developing innovative solutions to pressing security challenges.

Vassilis Pappas completed his bachelor studies at the University of Crete in 2007 and got his MA degree in 2009. There are definitely more chances for everyone in the US, if you try hard enough, but many of my fellow students from the University of Crete, stayed in Greece and are doing well too. I always liked the idea of living abroad and especially in NY. You have to love what you are doing and you must work hard to reap the fruits of your labor, noted the Greek PhD student, according to secnews.gr.

(Source: microsoft.com)

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2012/08/02/200000-microsoft-award-presented-to-greek-phd-student/


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probably stole it

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A very bright young man. Congratulations to him.

He is probably packing his bags up to leave for Germany or the UK seeing how qualified he is and the lack of opportunities in Greece, though...

the sad thing is that this bright youngman wont be staying and supporting greece he will live all his life in america.

he is probably richest greek nowadays and for a long while...

"There are definitely more chances for everyone in the US... I always liked the idea of living abroad and especially in NY. You have to love what you are doing..."

I propose giving this young man our $1 Griko Conquerors Award for so masterfully using his fame to publicly take a dump on the little chithole Greece, and encouraging however many precious youth left in Greece to leave their country like he did for a better life abroad. Well done son. You deserve our $1 award for your excellent contribution and encouragement of brain drain in Greece.

 

 

 

 

^^^^^
Is this jealous sad loser really the group general of the Turkish group? Makes you wonder sometimes...


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funny coming from these turd babboons posting from everywhere BUT turdey


such retarded people essentially insulting themselves hahaha

Classic Grik retardation, LOL. Trying desperately to be happy about their youngsters leaving chithole Greece en masse despite their chronic aging population and urgent need for people like this guy to initiate at least SOME industrial innovation.

Unlike Greece where no one apperantly wants to live anymore be it young or old, Turkey doesn't have an aging population problem. In fact, it's quite the opposite hence the immense inflow of foreign investments to Turkey.

As for trying to show me as example of brain drain from Turkey, lol, thank you for your compliments but I'm not a Ph.D. student like the Griko above who says he loves NY and goes out of his way to encourage young Griks to leave Greece.

 

"Classic Grik retardation, LOL. Trying desperately to be happy about their youngsters leaving chithole Greece en masse despite their chronic aging population and urgent need for people like this guy to initiate at least SOME industrial innovation."

Rather classic retardation from your side I would say. Where did you see that we are happy about youngsters leaving Greece? What we are happy about is that our youngsters excel in hard competition in the international arena.


"Unlike Greece where no one apperantly wants to live anymore be it young or old, Turkey doesn't have an aging population problem. In fact, it's quite the opposite hence the immense inflow of foreign investments to Turkey."

Even here in Sweden where I live many Swedes dream of studying and working in US especially those in the IT sector. Are you seriously telling us that Turkey is more advanced and offers more options than US in IT?


"As for trying to show me as example of brain drain from Turkey, lol, thank you for your compliments but I'm not a Ph.D. student like the Griko above who says he loves NY and goes out of his way to encourage young Griks to leave Greece."

The student says:
"There are definitely more chances for everyone in the US, if you try hard enough, but many of my fellow students from the University of Crete, stayed in Greece and are doing well too."...
And by the way I know a couple of successful Turks with Phds who currently live in US. Some of them gave it a try to move back to Turkey, they even bought a house there, but then gave up and moved back to US when not beeing able to find a suiting job in Turkey.


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"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
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