News for UCLA Computer Science 111, Winter 2013

2013-03-07

• Here are some topics for your two- to three-page report. 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.
  • How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi's operating system
  • Google declares war on the password
  • UAB develops a simple defense for complex smartphone malware
  • Computer scientists prevent data theft on smartphones and tablet computers
  • The threat of silence
  • Linux drops support for Intel's 386 processors
  • Linux Foundation to offer signed solution for UEFI Secure Boot conundrum
  • 2012: a BSD year in retrospective
  • Intel, universities are working on transformable CPUs
  • 0install reaches 2.0

2013-02-09

• The syllabus has been updated for all scribe notes submitted through today.

2013-01-10

• Lab 1a has been corrected by removing the stray text ", or is : (colon)".
• The skeleton code for Lab 1a has been corrected by removing a stray word "LABEL" from a comment.
• Paul Eggert's office hours are Mondays 09:00–10:00 and Wednesdays 14:00–15:00.

2013-01-06

• 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.
  • Sign up at the HSSEAS OASA Winter 2013 Enrollment Survey. The Dean's office will use that to advise us if there is a crunch.
  • 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.