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Welcome to the CSEP 551 Home Page.
Instructor: Hank Levy
Office hours: TBA
TA: Adrienne Wang
[ Announcements | Administrivia | Papers | Projects ]
CSEP 551 is a graduate course on operating systems, and more broadly, software computer systems in general. This course will cover a wide array of research topics in systems, starting from historical perspectives and ending with web-related and mobile systems. The class will consist of two major thrusts: reading and reviewing research papers, and doing a research project of your own.
Prerequisities: the basic prerequisite is to have taken a strong undergraduate operating systems course (CSE 451 or equivalent). If you haven't taken an undergrad OS course, please come talk to us. We will not be covering undergraduate material in this course.
Exams, papers: you will be responsible for reading and preparing a summary of one or two papers before each class. Your final grade will depend on faithfully submitting summaries for each and every paper before we talk about them in class: this is simply to ensure everybody keeps up with the reading. There will be one two-hour final exam at the end.
Projects: research projects (done in groups of size 2 or 3) are a critical aspect of this course. Your goal is to do quality systems research, and add to the community's knowledge of how to build real systems. Projects must be written up in a term paper. Project ideas will be suggested by the instructors, but you are strongly encouraged to come up with your own ideas.
Announcements
Administrivia
- Class schedule: Monday/Wednesday, 7pm-8:20pm, EE1 037
- Office hours: see above
- Instructions for joining the class mailing list
- Archived class mailing list
Papers
We will be covering approximately 25-30 papers this quarter. All of the papers that we will be covering are accessible on-line; there will not be a class reader that you have to purchase.
- Instructions for reviewing papers
- Reading list, schedule, and paper discussion groups
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