News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Fall 2008

2008-12-06

Scribe notes are available for your studying pleasure in the syllabus.

2008-11-26

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.

• Multi-core and parallel programming: is the sky falling?
• Solving the Internet gridlock
• Opening the cloud
• Windows 7 knows where you are
• On security, Microsoft reports progress and alarm
• Good code, bad computations: a computer security gray area
• In age of impatience, cutting PC start time

2008-10-26

• Scribe notes are available on the syllabus for your midterm-studying pleasure.

2008-09-24

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