Systems
Luis Rodriguez
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Course Description
Topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems:
techniques for controlling complexity, system infrastructure, networks
and distributed systems, atomicity and coordination of parallel
activities, recovery and reliability, privacy of information, impact
of computer systems on society. Case studies of working systems and
outside reading in the current literature provide comparisons and
contrasts. The group project is to write an NSF systems proposal to
fund a middle-ware product, for announcement RFP01-63.
Text: Distributed Systems, Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg. The
Mythical Man-Month, Brooks. Selected papers.
Requirements: One exam, eight essays, one project.
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