Schedule

GW-SHC Schedule

These are the talks that we have had, please click on one for more information

Spring 2015

• 10/1/14 -- Inaugural meeting
• 1/14/15 -- First meeting of spring semester 2015
• 1/21/15 -- What Do I Even?
• 1/28/15 -- An initial rump code walkthrough (attempt).
• 2/4/15 -- How to Read Through Large Code Bases
• 2/11/15 -- What happens when you hit enter...
• 2/18/15 -- Brief Overview of the Android Software Stack
• 2/25/15 -- Meeting canceled
• 3/4/15 -- FreeRTOS Paravirtualization
• 3/11/15 -- No meeeting, Spring Break :D
• 3/18/15 -- Shadowrun Overview
• 3/25/15 -- xv6 Operating System Code Review

Fall 2015

• 9/9/2015 -- First Meeting, get acquainted and create list of meeting ideas
• 9/16/2015 -- Overview of the Android System
• 9/23/2015 -- Discussion about Garbage Collection Techniques
• 9/30/2015 -- Basics of Writing a Shell
• 10/7/2015 -- How Does Memory Work?
• 10/14/2015 -- Discussions about the networking stack and process scheduling
• 10/21/2015 -- Introductions to common systems data structures
• 10/28/2015 -- Overview of DPDK

Spring 2016

• 1/29/2016 -- Android Rendering at 60fps
• 2/5/2016 -- Linux Kernel Networking APIs (Neel)
• 2/12/2016 -- Tensorflow & Machine Learning (Michael)
• 2/19/2016 -- Systems Design Structures (Lucas)
• 2/26/2016 -- Virtualization & Hypervisors (Robbie/Neel)
• 3/4/2016 -- Doom Code Walkthough (Victoria/Michael)
• Dates TBD:
• Scaling Git (Phil)
• DPDK/NFV/OpenNetVM (Neel)
• Chrome Sandbox (Gabe)
• Static Code Analysis (Beshoi)

Fall 2016

• 9/9/2016 -- What do we do with our lives?
• 9/16/2016 -- Scaling Git (Phil)
• Rust: As much as possible (Gregor)

Spring 2017

• 1/3/17 -- CFE satellite applications and software
• 1/10/17 -- memory management - persistent memory?? Garbage collection?? (Gregor)
• 1/17/17 -- Modern Filesystems and data structures (Joe)
• Memory management, types and tradeoffs (Gregor)
• Real Time Overview (Luke)
• Peripheral devices (device drivers, I/O and the horror that ensues)
• 3/24/17 -- Cortex M Processor
• 4/7/17 From Morse to Unicode (Gregor)
• Binary Hacks and Bit Twiddling
• Super Computers (Gabe?)
• Power Consumptions / limitations
• demoscene
• Fighter jets OS?? pew pew
• Apollo missions source code (Luke?)
• cFE (Zach)
• DPDK/NFV/OpenNetVM (Neel)
• Red hat filesystem
• Type Theory

Spring 2018:

• Architectural speculation, meltdown and spectre
• Peripheral devices (device drivers, I/O and the horror that ensues)(Seamus)
• Modern Filesystems and data structures, plan 9 (Joe)
• From Morse to Unicode (Gregor?)
• AI (Kevin)
• Data Compression (Michael)
• Parallelism/Concurrency/Synchronization (Robbie)

Late Spring/Fall 2019 (Dates TBD):

• Super Computers/Rackscale (Gabe?)
• Cortex M Processor (Freshmen?)
• DPDK/NFV/OpenNetVM (Full stack) (Riley/Pat)
• Quantum computers (Joe?)
• Encryption (Seamus)
• Type Theory (Gregor)
• Debugging (Gregor or Robbie)
• Data Compression / Information Theory (?)
• Virtualization (Robbo)
• Composite (?)
• ECE / CE talk (Sea bass)
• Over the summer
• Game Physics (Kevin)
• Code exploration (Gabe)
• Netflix, press play (?)

Possible other talks

• Doom code walk through
• CFE(Zach)
• Midi(Zach)
• How git works (facebook solved the git problem)
• Quantum computers
• IPC
• Kernel structures