Date	Topic	Required	Optional	Slides	Due
9/24	Course Overview		The Faces of System Research How to Read a paper Mothy’s tips for reviews How to give a bad talk Ernst’s presentation tips Jones’s presentation tips OStep	Andrew	Form
9/27	Wisdom		worse is better Hints for Computer System Design The Night Watch	Andrew
9/29	OS History and Unix	Unix no review	Multics Memory Multics IO	Andrew
10/01	OS History and Opal	Opal	Brinch Hansen Mach On u-Kernel Construction	Andrew	Form
10/04	Kernel	The Exokernel	Exokernel Performance Demikernel ghOSt Lightweight VMs	Andrew Sloan
10/06	Kernel	Lightweight Remote Procedure Calls		Nayan Andrew
10/08	Kernel	The MultiKernel		JunYi Andrew	Project Proposal
10/11	Kernel	IX		Lakshmi Andrew
10/14	File Systems	A Fast File-System for UNIX		Andrew Eugene
10/15	File Systems	A log-structured File System		Andrew Surya
10/18	Scheduling	Lottery Scheduling		Andrew Brevan
10/20	Scheduling	Scheduler Activations		Amogh Andrew
10/22	Distributed FSs	CODA		Andrew	Quiz #1
10/25	Distributed FSs	xfs		Fabien Andrew
10/27	(No Class, SOSP)
10/29	Distributed FSs	Speculator		Sloan Andrew
11/01	Virtualization	Disco		Amogh Andrew
11/03	Virtualization	Xen		Nayan Andrew
11/05	Project Check-in			All	Project Check-in (Presentation)
11/08	Virtualization	Ballooning		Surya Andrew
11/10	Virtualization	ReVirt		Eugene Andrew	Project Check-in (Paper)
11/12	Reliability	Eraser		Fabien Andrew
11/15	Reliability	Bugs as Deviant Behavior		Lakshmi Andrew
11/17	Cancelled	Class Cancelled for Strike
11/19	Reliability	Nooks		Brevan Andrew
11/22	Reliability	Failure Oblivious Computing		Junyi Andrew
11/24	Wrap-UP	DBOS See google group		Andrew
11/26	(Thanksgiving)
11/29	Debate	Is DBOS ‘good’ or ‘bad’?		All
12/01	Presentations
12/03	Presentations				Quiz #2
12/07	(Final Examination)	No Final			Project Paper Due