News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Fall 2010

2010-12-03

The syllabus has been updated with all scribe notes submitted by 23:59:59 local time.

2010-11-12

Here are some topics for your two- to three-page report. (Initially this was going to be a one-page report, but since we dropped the requirement for presentations, it's now somewhat longer.) 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 aspects 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.

• Multicore may not be so scary
• New version of Linux OS includes Ceph file system developed at UCSC
• New Google tool makes websites twice as fast
• In D.C.'s Web voting test, the hackers were the good guys
• Microsoft provides Azure access to academic projects
• Inter-cloud data security technology developed by Fujitsu
• DRDO plans new secure operating system, military satellite fleet
• Malware aimed at social networks may steal your reality
• Faster websites, more reliable data
• Stopping malware: BLADE software eliminates "drive-by downloads" from malicious websites

2010-10-25

• The syllabus has been updated to reflect all scribe notes submitted by 00:00 today. If you are responsible for scribe notes for this week, please submit them to CourseWeb as soon as possible, so that others can study them for the midterm tomorrow.

2010-10-23

• The syllabus has been updated to reflect all scribe notes submitted by 00:00 today.

2010-10-06

• Due to continuing office renovations, Jonathan's office hours Wednesday 15:00–17:00 are also at at Boelter 3770.

2010-10-06

• Due to office renovations, Jonathan's office hours tomorrow are 15:00–17:00 at Boelter 3770 instead of at the usually scheduled place.

2010-10-04

• Dr. Eggert's Monday office hours have been changed from 12:50–13:50 to 11:50–12:50.

2010-10-01

• Lab 1b's deadline has been delayed to Friday, Oct. 15.

2010-09-29

• Lab 4 was inadvertently omitted from the syllabus. It is due December 2. The syllabus has been fixed.
• Jonathan's office hours are Wednesdays 15:00–17:00 in Boelter 4428.

2010-09-28

• The CourseWeb copies of lab1a.tar.gz and of weensyos1.tar.gz (under "Assignments") were corrupted by a CourseWeb bug. We worked around that problem at around 13:30 22:50 today, so you may need to refetch them. You can also get them from the "CS 111 Tarballs" section of Keith Stevens's Useful Links page.
• The CourseWeb copies of bochs-2.4.5.tar.gz and of qemu-0.9.1-i386.tar.gz (under "Materials") were corrupted by the same CourseWeb bug. This problem was fixed around 22:50 today. Or, you can get bochs-2.4.5.tar.gz from the SourceForge copy (md5sum fda7eadcd9590934d2901f8439631463) and qemu-0.9.1-i386.tar.gz from our own cached copy (md5sum ff807f7b7627ada17bf06ae1638bd566).

2010-09-24

• The Fall 2010 Installfest of the UCLA Linux Users Group will be on Saturday, October 2, from 10:00 to 16:00, in Boelter 4760. The LUG also has a regular meeting Thursday, September 30, at 18:00, in Boelter 3820.
• Keith's office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 14:30–15:30 in Boelter 4428.
• Jong Han (Jonathan) Park is our second teaching assistant.

2010-09-22

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