News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Fall 2013

2013-11-20

• Here are some topics for your two- to three-page report that is due Friday, December 6. 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 two- to three-page report in PDF form for the topic you chose.
  • Fair pricing key to node sharing in HPC
  • Booting to Rust
  • Contiki 2.7 released!
  • The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
  • Why Valve's SteamOS could be revolutionary
  • Smartphone Pin revealed by camera and microphone
  • The quest to build a truly free version of Android
  • Open-source software projects need to improve vulnerability handling practices, researchers say
  • Your car is about to go open source
  • Firms, researchers seek better ways to detect evasive threats

2013-10-07

• Zhe's office hours are Tuesdays 16:00–18:00.

2013-10-04

• Tuan's office hours are Mondays 14:00–16:00, and Zhe's are Mondays 12:00–14:00.

2013-09-26

• There will be a discussion section during week 0, on Friday, September 26, to talk about the first assignment. Due to some urgent family issues Tuan Le will not be available to run one of the sections; so the two noon sections, labs 1B and 1C, will be merged just for that day. We are still working on getting a room larged enough for the merged section; please look for notices on the old rooms as to where the new room will be. The normal discussion section schedule resumes next week.
• Check that your SEASnet account works right away, as there are occasionally delays before your account is activated.
• Here are some suggestions if you're interested in the course but are neither enrolled nor on the waiting list.
  • Any PTEs are not typically given out until the end of the second week, to make sure that enough resources are available. You can try coming to classes before then. Sign up on any attendance sheet that is being passed around.