Description

In this course students study advanced operating system topics and are exposed to recent developments in operating systems research. This course involves readings and lectures on classic and new journal and conference papers.

Prerequisites

Operating Systems and Systems Programming (Stanford Course: CS140) or equivalent

Topics include

  • Concurrent execution
  • Memory management using things like virtual memory and memory allocations
  • Scalability such as lock-free data structures
  • File systems
  • Operating system architecture
  • Virtualization
  • Security such as data security, integrity and authentication
  • The history and experience of systems programming

Course Availability

The course schedule is displayed for planning purposes – courses can be modified, changed, or cancelled. Course availability will be considered finalized on the first day of open enrollment. For quarterly enrollment dates, please refer to our graduate education section.