COM 1722: Freshman Honors Seminar II

Lectures, Handouts, and Readings

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January 7, 2003

Administrivia; Building a processor bottom-up; Bits, binary representation, arithmetic and logical operators,
gates, and notion of universality


January 14, 2003

Building multiplexers and demultiplexers from gates; clocked gates; building registers from clocked gates


January 28, 2003

Design of a simple processor


February 4, 2003

Computer Systems overview; A sample problem: scheduling processes in operating systems; Example scheduling policies;
UNIX scheduling
 


February 11, 2003

How to deter spam


February 18 to March 4, 2003

Student seminars


March 11, 2003