Class

Topics

Resources

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08/26 (M)

Introduction [Notes]

Course Objectives and Administrivia

2

08/28 (W)

Paper Reading [Notes]

v  S. Keshav, How to Read a Paper, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication February 2016

v  Michael J. Hanson and Dylan J. McNamee, Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology

v  Philip W. L. Fong, How to Read a CS Research Paper, July 2004

v  William G. Griswold, How to Read an Engineering Research Paper

v  Griswold's Paper Comprehension Template

3

09/02 (M)

Labor Day - University is Closed

4

09/4 (W)

Paper Reviewing [Notes]

Term Review [Assignment]

v  William Strunk, Jr. The Elements of Style, 1918

v  Mark Hill and Kathryn S. McKinley, Notes on Constructive and Positive Reviewing, May 2005

v  Alan Jay Smith, The Task of the Referee, IEEE Computer 23(4), April 1990

v  Timothy Roscoe, Writing reviews for systems conferences, March 2007

5

09/09 (M)

Giving a research talk [Notes]

v  Michael Ernst, Giving a technical presentation

v  Jonathan Shewchuk, Giving an Academic Talk

v  Charles Van Loan, The Short Talk

6

09/11(W)

Reading and Reviewing Discussion and Wrap-up

v  Review 1 - How to Share a Secret, A. Shamir

v  Review 2 - OceanStore: An Architecture for Global Scale, J. Kubiatowicz

v  Discussion

7

09/16 (M)

Scripting, plotting, LaTeX

v  LaTeX Distributions

o   Linux - TeX Live, Mac OSX - MacTeX

o   Windows - MiKTeX

o   Overleaf

v  GNUPlot

8

09/18 (W)

Department Computing Resources [Notes]

Overview of Departmental Computing Resources

9

09/23 (M)

GitHub [Notes]

v  Version Control with Subversion, B. Collins-Sussman, B. W. Fitzpatrick, and C. M. Pilato,

v  GitHub and GitHub Resources

v  GitHub: Making Your Code Citable

v  ProGit Reference

10

09/25 (W)

Recap

11

09/30 (M)

Research Integrity

v  The following must be read before lecture

v  On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research

v  Honor in Science

12

10/03(W)

Dr. Taieb Znati

v  Energy and QoS-Aware fault Tolerance at Scale

13

10/07 (M)

Research Fellowships

[Notes]

v  How to write successful fellowships

14

10/09 (W)

Dr. Xulong Tang

v  A Brief Overview of SIMD Architectures: Vector, SIMD Extensions and GPUs

o   Divergence-Aware Warp Scheduling

o   Characterization and Analysis of Dynamic Parallelism in Unstructured GPU Applications