News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Spring 2009

2009-06-08

Scribe notes for lecture 16 are available; they had been misfiled under 17.

2009-06-06

Scribe notes for all lectures are available, except for lecture 16, which is missing. You can get an approximation of that material by looking at the relevant sections of lecture notes 16, 17, 17a and 17b from Fall 2008.

2009-05-29

Here are some topics for your one-page report. Each topic is illustrated by a single article or web page, but please don't limit your reading to just this web page: you should be coming up with a summary of the topic, not the article. For example, some of these articles refer to recently published scholarly papers, and you should read the original papers, not just the article. Some of the topics are fairly large; the intent is that you focus on the operating system components of each topic, and not other technical components, management, economics, or politics. Please submit a one-page report in PDF form for the topic you chose.

• A tool to make more of many cores
• Europe funds secure operating system research
• Viral epidemics poised to go mobile
• I.B.M. unveils real-time software to find trends in vast data sets
• A blueprint to stop browser attacks
• A Nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing
• Does anti-piracy software on video games open security risks on users' computers?
• Researchers take over dangerous botnet
• How hackers can steal secrets from reflections
• Software: the eternal battlefield in the unending cyberwars
• Sleep talking PCs save energy and money

2009-04-29

• Lab 2's due date has been extended to May 4.

2009-04-08

• Dr. Eggert's Tuesday office hour has been moved from 14:00 to 15:00.

2009-04-02

• The due date for WeensyOS 1 has been delayed by a day, to April 14.
• Jonathan's office hours have been set to Fridays 12:00–14:00.
• ACM took the 2001 edition of its model computer science curriculum offline, so the course's home page has been updated to refer only to the 2008 edition, which, alas, is a huge PDF document without a good online index.

2009-03-28

• Obtain or renew your SEASnet account right away, as there are occasionally delays before your account is activated.