aD Uni Systems Course

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2/25
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3/2
         L1:Intro to Systems, Critical Thinking about Systems, the Role of Complexity
  • Lucky's Bozos on the bus
  • Science of Scientific Writing
  • Worse is better
  • Architecture of Complexity
R1:Student Groups, Final Projects, Writing about Systems 		L2: System Models, System Design
  • Hints for Computer System Design
  • An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accident
  • The X Window System
R2:Hierachic Systems discussion, Writing assignment
3/4
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3/9
 L3: Basics of Operating Systems, Storage, Virtual Memory
  • The UNIX time-sharing system
  • Disk System Architectures for High Performance Computing
  • Virtual Memory for an Object Oriented Language
R3:Therac-25 discussion, Writing assignment 		L4: Distributed Systems R3:Virtual memory discussion, Writing assignment L5: Networking Pt. 1 L6: Networking Pt. 2 L8: Distributed Storage L7:Security
3/11
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3/16
 Quiz,
Choose RFP Project 		L9: Name Services L10: Time and Coordination L11:Transactions L12: Distributed Transactions L13: Replication
3/18
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3/23
 Project Progress Review L14: Distributed Multimedia L15: Mach case study RXX: Survivor practice talks Survivor: aD Uni Final project presentations Survivor: aD Uni Final project presentations, cont. Final Judgement + Prizes