15-840 Current Research Issues in Computer Systems (Fa/Sp 1999-00)
Instructor: Peter Steenkiste
Units: 2
Description:
The seminar on "Current Research Topics in Computer Systems" is a weekly seminar in which graduate students present their research results. Each students typically makes two presentations each semester. The purpose of the seminar is to give students a forum in which they can improve their speaking skills in front of a friendly audience and in which they can get feedback on both preliminary research ideas and more mature research results. The seminar covers a wide range of topics in computer systems. In recent years, the focus has been on networking, mobile computing, network-awareness, and compilers.