December 2021 - nlplab - mailman.cs.vt.edu

congrats to Zhiyang
by Lifu Huang 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

Congrats to Zhiyang on receiving an internship offer from Amazon Alexa team! Zhiyang will work with Yang Liu, a world famous expert in NLP and Speech. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid, Moksh 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian, 3-3:30pm: Jeet 3:30-4pm: Sijia, 4-5pm: Menglong, 5-6pm: Xiaochu Thursday: 1-2pm: Zhiyang (over Zoom) 2-3pm: Deval, Apoorv, Zhiyang (over Zoom) I will start to revise NAACL submissions and put my comments into the overleaf next week. Please frequently check the overleaf, address the comments and mark Done. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

I will have to catch a NSF proposal deadline, so I will schedule all the meetings on Wednesday. Wednesday: 10-11am: Zaid, Moksh 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian, 3-3:30pm: Jeet 3:30-4pm: Sijia, 4-5pm: Menglong, 5-6pm: Xiaochu Thursday: 1-2pm: Zhiyang 2-3pm: Deval, Apoorv, Zhiyang --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

I will schedule at least one meeting for each student during the break to make sure you are catching up with NAACL deadline. Tuesday: 11-12pm: Zaid, Moksh 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian, 3-3:30pm: Jeet 3:30-4pm: Sijia, 4-5pm: Aditya, 5-6pm: Xiaochu Thursday: 1-2pm: Zhiyang 2-3pm: Deval, Apoorv, Zhiyang All of you need to put approach and experiment details into the overleaf before the meeting, otherwise we will just cancel the meeting. Please also make a detailed research plan from now until Jan 15 to make sure you can catch the deadline. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: [Bburg-fac] FW: Critical log4j vulnerability
by Lifu Huang 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

Please watch out the following message and make sure our server is safe This vulnerability only affects log4j versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1. Previous versions should be fine as is the new version 2.15.0 which was just released. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Dec 10, 2021, 2:10 PM -0500 > > There is a critical vulnerability in Apache log4j that is being actively exploited. The zero-day vulnerability was announced yesterday, 09 Dec. I have seen where this vuln is listed as a Critical with a score of 10 out of 10. nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228 > > Apache released a patch today: www.cisa.gov/uscer...al-rce > > Someone posted this egrep to check for attempted comprmise (thanks Brad): > sudo egrep -i -r '\$\{jndi:(ldap[s]?|rmi|dns):/[^\n]+' /var/log > > to check compressed logs in /var/log: > sudo find /var/log -name \*.gz -print0 | xargs -0 zgrep -E -i '\$\{jndi:(ldap[s]?|rmi|dns):/[^\n]+' > > A large number of software uses log4j, so this is not only an Apache vuln. It is recommended to upgraded to log4j 2.15.0 or apply the recommended mitigations immediately. > > If you find any signs of compromise or intrusion, please share the IP addresses. > > Thanks > Shane

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Tuesday: 1:30-2pm: Zhiyang 2-2:30pm: Minqian 3:30-4pm: Sijia, Zhiyang and Minqian join. 4:00-5pm: Aditya 5-6pm: Xiaochu, Zhiyang and Minqian join Wednesday: 10-10:30am: Zaid, Moksh 2:30-3pm: Jeet Thursday: 1-2pm: Zhiyang, 2-3pm: Deval and Apoorv, Zhiyang join 3:30-4pm: Anirudh Friday: 9:30-10am: Sijia, Minqian and Zhiyang also join Everyone needs to catch up with the progress of your project and update the overleaf with all details before our meetings. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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