News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Winter 2017

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2017-02-24

A new set of Edison instructions has an updated list of components. (Some of the components in the older list were out of stock.)

2017-02-17

Here are some topics for your three-page report. The first topic is illustrated by an advocacy article; if you choose this one, please don't limit your reading to just this source: you should be coming up with a summary of the topic, not the article. The remaining topics are illustrated by a single article taken from ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), where your job is to summarize and critique the survey article (for example: did it overlook important subtopics? is it up-to-date?). 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 three-page report in PDF form for the topic you chose. Your audience for this report is a busy computer science professional who knows the operating systems but may not be an expert in this particular topic.

• Atlidakis V, Andrus J, Geambasu R, Mitropoulos D, Nieh J. POSIX has become outdated. ;login:. 2016;41(3):6–11.
• Diener M, Cruz EHM, ALves MAZ, Navaux POA, Koren I. Affinity-based thread and data mapping in shared memory systems. ACM Comput Surv. 2017;49(4):64. doi:10.1145/3006385.
• Estebanez A, Llanos DR, Gonzalez-Escribano A. A survey on thread-level speculation techniques. ACM Comput Surv. 2016;49(2):22. doi:10.1145/2938369.
• Pietry I, Sakellariou R. Mapping virtual machines onto physical machines in cloud computing: a survey. ACM Comput Surv. 2017;49(4):76. doi:10.1145/2983575.
• Reaves B, Bowers J, Gorski SA III et al. *droid: assessment and evaluation of Android application analysis tools. ACM Comput Surv. 2016;49(3):55. doi:10.1145/2996358.
• Servos D, Osborn SL. Current research and open problems in attribute-based access control. ACM Comput Surv. 2017;49(4):65. doi:10.1145/3007204.
• Shin Y, Koo D, Hur J. A survey of secure data deduplication schemes for cloud storage systems. ACM Comput Surv. 2017;49(4):74. doi:10.1145/3017428.
• Shu R, Wang P, Gorski SA III et al. A study of security isolation techniques. ACM Comput Surv. 2016;49(3):50. doi:10.1145/2988545.
• Tam K, Feizollah A, Anuar NB, Salleh R, Cavallaro L. The evolution of Android malware and Android analysis techniques. ACM Comput Surv. 2017;49(4):76. doi:10.1145/3017427.
• Xu M, Song C, Ji Y et al. Toward engineering a secure Android ecosystem: a survey of existing techniques. ACM Comput Surv. 2016;49(2):38. doi:10.1145/2963145.

2017-02-16

• Labs 3A and 3B are available.
• Please see and act on the ordering instructions updated ordering instructions for Lab 4 as soon as possible.

2017-02-09

• The due date for Lab 2B has been extended to Monday, February 20.

2017-02-09

• Lab 2A has been corrected as follows: "If this option has been specified, each line of statistics output should begin with “add-yield-none”."

2017-01-24

• Lab 1C's benchmarking assignment has been made less sketchy, to give you a better idea of what benchmarks we are looking for.

2017-01-13

• The description of the example in Lab 1's "Basic idea" section has been corrected to agree with the the actual example; several of the file descriptor numbers were incorrect.
• A missing "two" was added to the description of the --pipe option.

2017-01-10

• Lab 1A's deadline has been changed to Friday, January 20. Lab 1B's deadline has been changed to Friday, January 27. Lab 1C's deadline has been changed to Friday, February 3.
• The home page now has office hours for Zhaoxing Bu and Jungbeom Lee. Remaining office hours are still TBD.

2017-01-09

• Effective Wednesday, January 11, the lecture has moved to Court of Sciences 24 (in Young Hall).

2017-01-08

• 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.
  • Read Enrollment in Undergraduate Computer Science Classes and follow its advice.
  • 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.