Computer Science 275 - Systems II: Operating Systems

This course will cover the crucial responsibilities and mechanisms of operating system kernels, focusing on the themes of abstraction, virtualization, concurrency, caching, and persistence.  Topics will include processes, memory management and virtual memory, multi-processing and threads, file systems, and virtual machines.

Requisite: COSC-112 or COSC-113 and COSC-171 or COSC-175. Fall semester: Professors Kaplan and Yoo. Spring semester: Professor Yoo.

How to handle overenrollment: Priority to majors in order of seniority.

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Quantitative work.