Logic Column 5 Column Editor : Jon G . Rieck e Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologie s 700 Mountain Avenu e Murray Hill, NJ 0797 4 riecke@bell-labs .co m Editor's note : After a long absence, the Logic column has returned . This month's column, by Denni s Volpano and Geoffrey Smith, explores privacy properties for programming languages and typ e systems for enforcing them . Planned columns will cover the semantics of state, complexity theor y extended to higher-order functions, and the 1998 Logic in Computer Science (LICS) Symposium . Confinement Properties fo r Programming Languages * Dennis Volpano Computer Science Department Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93943, USA volpano@cs .nps .navy .mil Geoffrey Smith School of Computer Scienc e Florida International University Miami, FL 33199, US A smit;hg@cs .fiu .edu April 15, 199 8 Suppose TrusiMe is a web site that offers a new program for filing a federal tax return electronicall y with the IRS . It runs within your web browser and has all the latest forms, reflecting recent change s in the tax law . You 're happy because it means that now you don ' t have to buy and install softwar e
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