CS 4960, Fall 2025   Class Schedule, Lecture Notes

Note: Schedule will change please check regularly.

WK Class/Date Events Notes
1 Mon 8/25 Introduction
2 Mon 9/1 School Holiday: Labor Day
3 Mon 9/8 Picking Topics, public speaking advice Presentation tips, courtesy IASTED.org
4 Mon 9/15
5 Mon 9/22 Dotson speaks on "Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time"
6 Mon 9/29 Hutchins speaks on "Frontier: Exploring Exascale"
Barrett speaks on "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data"
7 Mon 10/6 Mitchell speaks on "Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web"
Medina speaks on "Co-Design and System for the Supercomputer 'Fugaku'"
8 Mon 10/13 Hipkins speaks on "MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters"
Zuniga speaks on "Designing for Disasters"
9 Mon 10/20 Ramirez speaks on "Android Permissions Demystified"
Orozco Lopez speaks on "How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic"
10 Mon 10/27 Break for talk preparation Data structures topic emails due on or before October 27
11 Mon 11/3
12 Mon 11/10 Student A speaks on ???
Student B speaks on ???
13 Mon 11/17 Student C speaks on ???
Student D speaks on ???
14 Mon 11/24 School Holiday: Thanksgiving
15 Mon 12/1 Student E speaks on "???"
Student F speaks on "???"
16 Mon 12/8
??? 12/??, ?:00 p.m.-?:00 p.m. FINAL EXAM : No exam

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