| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Book Chapter(s) |
Audio |
Assignments |
| 1 |
Tue 01/12 |
Syllabus, Intro |
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Photo and contact info assigned |
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Thu 01/14 |
Concurrency overview continued |
Java Ch1, Erlang Ch1 & 11 |
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Fri 01/15 |
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Photo and contact info due |
| 2 |
Tue 01/19 |
Java Thread Mechanisms - basics, Race.java |
Java Ch 2 |
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Homework1 - in Jan. 19th notes assigned |
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Thu 01/21 |
Thread Safety |
Java Ch 2 |
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| 3 |
Tue 01/26 |
Sharing Objects |
Java Ch 3 |
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Homework2 - in Lecture5 notes assigned |
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Thu 01/28 |
Safe Publication, Object locking implementation |
Java Sec 3.4ff |
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Homework1 - in Jan. 19th notes due |
| 4 |
Tue 02/02 |
Composing Objects |
Ch 4 |
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Thu 02/04 |
Building Blocks, code for slide 3 example |
Ch 5 |
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Homework2 - in Lecture5 notes due, Homework3 - code inspection assigned |
| 5 |
Tue 02/09 |
Building Blocks - continued |
Ch 5 |
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Thu 02/11 |
Task Execution, Exam Review |
Ch 6 |
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Homework3 - code inspection due, Project1 - synchronizers assigned |
| 6 |
Tue 02/16 |
1st mid-term |
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Thu 02/18 |
Erlang intro |
Erlang Chapters 1-4, 10 |
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| 7 |
Tue 02/23 |
Sequential Erlang continued |
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Thu 02/25 |
Go over exam and Sequential Erlang continued |
Ch 1-4, 10 |
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Project1 - synchronizers due |
| 8 |
Tue 03/01 |
Go over exam, Ring Assignment |
Ch 11-12 |
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Project2 - Concurrent Erlang assigned |
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Thu 03/03 |
Shared State & Ring notes |
Ch 13 |
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| 9 |
Tue 03/08 |
Object Simulation, Process linking and keep-alive, None |
Ch 13 and Ch 22 |
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Thu 03/10 |
Go over synchronizers asst., Lifts assignment - skeleton code |
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Project3 - Lifts Simulation assigned |
| Spring Break |
Mon 03/14 |
Spring Break |
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| 10 |
Tue 03/22 |
Erlang-OTP, distributed computing |
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Thu 03/24 |
Exam Review and Sample Exam, Synchronous message passing |
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Fri 03/25 |
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Project2 - Concurrent Erlang due |
| 11 |
Tue 03/29 |
2nd mid-term |
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Thu 03/31 |
Synchronous Message Passing, CML Paper |
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| 12 |
Tue 04/05 |
Go over Exam 2 and Transactions |
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Thu 04/07 |
Synchronous Message Passing Assignment, Transactions and Transactional Memory, TM Paper |
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Project4 - Synchronous Communication assigned |
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Fri 04/08 |
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Project3 - Lifts Simulation due |
| 13 |
Tue 04/12 |
Toward lock-free concurrency: Dynamic Transactional Memory - notes, DSTM paper, Haskell STM Paper, Joe Duffy: Retrospective on TM |
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Thu 04/14 |
Read-copy-update (RCU), RCU Articles |
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| 14 |
Tue 04/19 |
Java ReentrantLocks, MapReduce, Google MapReduce Paper |
Ch 26 |
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Thu 04/21 |
No class meeting - Google's Go Language Concurrency Videos |
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| 15 |
Tue 04/26 |
Go language - tour of concurrency features |
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Thu 04/28 |
pthreads and the event-loop model, Sample Final |
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| Finals week |
Wed 05/04 |
Final Exam - Wed. May 4, 3:10-5:10PM |
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Thu 05/05 |
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Project4 - Synchronous Communication due |
