
    <h1>
      TITLE</h1>
    <p>
      A Radically Transparent Computer Without Complex VLSI</p>
    <h2>
      VENUE</h2>
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      1st IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy CyberInfrastructure
      for IoT and Microelectronics (SaTC 2025), Wright State University,
      February 25-27, 2025.</p>
    <p>
      This is a recording of the final rehearsal that occurred three
      hours before this invited talk. No slides were used.</p>
    <h2>
      ABSTRACT</h2>
    <p>
      Foreign adversaries have colonized America’s computers from at
      least 1986. Four decades later, online safety is the largest
      failure in the history of human engineering. Radical stewardship
      in cybersecurity would bring radical progress, but responsibility
      for losses will need to flow from the bottom up. The buck stops
      with victims, who must accept all blame for cyberattacks. Only
      then will people at risk properly vet the products and vendors
      they select.</p>
    <p>
      A leading challenge in stewardship is balancing the opaque,
      proprietary nature of VLSI complex logic with the owner’s need for
      complete control. Since these aspects are incompatible and owner
      control is essential, it’s necessary to design computers that
      avoid complex VLSI entirely. One such architecture, Dauug | 36, is
      being developed at Wright State University to deliver 36-bit
      computing, preemptive multitasking, paged virtual memory, and
      hundreds of opcodes, all without using a single microprocessor or
      anything like one.</p>
    <h2>
      BIOGRAPHY</h2>
    <p>
      Marc Abel is an engineer-scientist specializing in technology that
      supports civil rights, economic security, and geopolitical
      stability. He holds a 1991 B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science
      (focused on computer science) from Caltech, and a 2022 Ph.D. in
      Computer Science and Engineering from Wright State University.</p>
    <p>
      Marc is the sole inventor, architect, implementer, maintainer,
      documenter, and promoter of the Dauug | 36 open-source
      minicomputer for critical infrastructure. He is the original and
      still only author of Dauug | 36’s firmware, designer and
      implementer of Dauug | 36’s assembly language and assemblers,
      writer of several related software tools, especially open-source
      electronic design automation and simulation tools, and the sole
      author of Osmin, a real-time operating system (RTOS) kernel for
      the architecture. He is the writer of 200,000 words of system
      documentation, including his dissertation and its online
      continuation called The Dauug House.</p>
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