Course Instructor: Marius Zaharia

Syllabus:

The Operating Systems lecture goal is to stimulate research activities and develop student abilities to implement advanced concepts by presenting and offering for debate research papers addressing advanced topics in the operating systems space. During the lecture, an open debate is started to discuss the research paper(s).

The scientific topics include virtualization, advanced synchronization mechanisms, network deep packet inspection, operating systems security, vulnerability analysis, mobile OS topics. The lecture is doubled by a practical project realized in a team of 2-3 students based on a novel idea.

The purpose of the project is to implement a software component and to write a scientific research paper that can be presented at a conference.