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 .

AOS and SCA: graduate courses

Graduate students who are interested in my courses offered in the 3rd quarter. Please contact the instructor and discuss your interest and prerequisite status. Especially, those who plan to take the Special Topic in Computer Architecture course, you need to contact the instructor and discuss the project topic as it is a project-oriented course and just coming to the classroom won't suffice to study in the course.

Advanced Operating Systems, 2014

Special Topic in Computer Architecture 2014

OS Course Overview Slides and TA

Course overview slides* are posted at the course web page (here) .
*still being polished and subject to revision.

Tomoya Fukukawa has been appointed as the TA of the OS course.

OS Textbook (3rd edition for this year again)

Earlier, we mentioned that the 4th edition of the Modern Operation Systems had been published . However, its international edition has not been published yet and the availability is not clear at this moment. Therefore, we are going to use the 3rd edition as the textbook of our class again. Since the 4th edition (although only the hard cover) was already published, the 3rd edition became an 'obsolete' edition. Its availability should be limited and the potential students should order your copy at the university book store as soon as they start taking orders.