no office hours today

sorry fo inconvenience this may cause

OS Exercise 3 posted

Today's exercise problem has been posted at the Exercise page. The submission deadline is at 2359 of October 24 (Friday).

OS Class and Classroom Changes

From the next week, (10/22), we will use the S6 classroom (Research QUadangles 281) for the lecture.

Due to a business trip of the instructor, the class on 10/29 will be cancelled and the following schedule changes will take place for making up the cancelled class

• The 1st period of 10/22: Lecture for Section 2.2 "Threads."
• The 2nd period of 10/22: Lecture for Section 2.3 "Interprocess Communication."
• The 3rd period of 10/22: Exercise based on Section 2.2 (with an extended deadline).
• The 1st and 2nd periods of 11/5: Exercise based on Section 2.3
• The 3rd period of 11/5: Lecture for Section 2.4 "Scheduling."

Please read Sections 2.2 and 2.3 before coming to the class next week. If you have any question, please send the instructor email or visit the office hours.

OS Exercise 2 posted

Today's exercise problem has been posted at the Exercise page.

OS: Specfial Lecture on 12/5

We plan a special lecture by Joana Corte-Real from University of Porto, Portugal on 12/5. Although it is targeted to the SCCP participant, all OS course students in my class are advised to attend the lecture. By attending the talk and submitting a short report, you will earn extra credit toward your OS class final grade.

Today's office hours

Today's office hours is changed to 'by appointment' and please contact the instructor by email. sorry for any inconvenience this may incur.

OS Next Class (10/15)

According to the Academic Calendar , the class schedule of the next Wednesday will be that of Friday and we will not have the OS class next week.

On Oct 15, we will proceed to Chapter 2 "2 PROCESSES AND THREADS" and we will cover Section 2.1 "PROCESSES.". Section 2.1 is your reading assignment. You will also need review your C-programming skills as the exercise problem will be related to process management system calls.

OS Ex1 posted

Today's problems have been posted at the Exercise page .