COMP 620: Graduate Seminar in Distributed Computing

COMP 620: Graduate Seminar in Computer Systems
Rice University
Spring 2010

Meeting Time and Place

Monday 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location DH3076

Description

We will study papers from different areas in Computer Systems such as Operating Systems, Networking, Mobile Wireless, File and Storage Systems, Architecture, Databases, etc.

To get the most out of COMP620 and learn from the presentation experience, you should assume the paper you are presenting is your own paper. You should therefore prepare the presentation and defend the paper based on your own ideas. You should design your own presentation as you see fit. Ask your advisor to help review your presentation before the seminar. You will also receive feedbacks after the talk. You may use detailed figures (e.g. figures of results) that are hard to reproduce from the paper itself and from online slides, but be sure to acknowledge the source of the material. Always respect the copyright of material from other sources and do not plagiarize. You should not use an existing presentation found on-line. COMP620 is one of the few places where you can hone your presentation skills in a friendly environment. So, put your own personal touch on your presentation and get the most from it!

Seminar Schedule

Class	Date	Room	Paper title	Presenter
1	1/25	DH3076	Improving Application Security with Data Flow Assertions	Yuliy
2	2/1	DH3076	CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs through a Hybrid Data Path	Florin
3	2/8	DH3076	Heat-ray: Combating Identity Snowball Attacks using Machine Learning, Combinatorial Optimization and Attack Graphs	Caleb
4	2/15	DH3076	Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code	Mike
5	2/22	4:00pm McMurtry Auditorium	David Patterson -- The Parallel Revolution Has Started: Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
6	3/8	DH3076	A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis	Luis
7	3/15	DH3076	Static Enforcement of Web Application Integrity Through Strong Typing	Anping
8	3/22	4:00pm McMurtry Auditorium	Hector Ruiz -- It's All About Competition
9	3/29	DH3076	RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism to Scale Software Routers	Zheng
10	4/5	DH3076	MapReduce Online	Zhuhua
11	4/12	DH3076	Delay-Hiding Energy Management Mechanisms for DRAM	Myeongjae
12	4/19	DH3076	Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Efficient Opportunistic Retransmission Protocol	Wei-Cheng

Paper List