News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Winter 2015

2015-03-14

• The syllabus has updated scribe notes for your studying pleasure.

2015-02-26

• Here are some topics for your two- to three-page report that is due Friday, March 13. 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.
  • MIT randomizes tasks to speed up massive multicore processors
  • Smarter multicore chips
  • The security implications of IoT
  • A crypto trick that makes software nearly impossible to reverse-engineer
  • First fully sandboxed Linux desktop app
  • Add a dash of quantum for secure cloud computing
  • Creating a responsive, energy efficient computing cloud
  • BitTorrent tests websites hosted in the crowd, not the cloud
  • Apps everywhere, but no unifying link
  • Tails 1.3 is out

2015-02-03

• For your studying pleasure, the syllabus has been annotated with scribe notes submitted through this morning.

2015-01-02

• 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.