CS 4960, Spring 2026   Class Schedule, Lecture Notes

Note: Schedule will change please check regularly.

WK Class/Date Events Notes
1 Thur 1/29 Introduction
2 Thur 2/5 Picking Topics, public speaking advice
3 Thur 2/12
4 Thur 2/19
5 Thur 2/26 Haro speaks on "Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space"
Moncur speaks on "How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic"
6 Thur 3/5 Cortez speaks on "Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data"
Tremain speaks on "Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time"
7 Thur 3/12 Khalil speaks on "Mining association rules between sets of items in large data sets"
Miao speaks on "Understanding the Mirai Botnet"
8 Thur 3/19 Navarro speaks on "Co-Design and System for the Supercomputer 'Fugaku'"
Rayan speaks on "Designing for Disasters"
9 Thur 3/26 Goodson speaks on "Android Permissions Demystified"
Dao speaks on "Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web"
10 Thur 4/2 Break for talk preparation Data structures topic emails due on or before April 2
11 Thur 4/9 School Holiday: Spring Break
12 Thur 4/16 Student C speaks
Student D speaks
13 Thur 4/23 Student E speaks
Student F speaks
14 Thur 4/30 Student G speaks
Student H speaks
15 Thur 5/7
16 Thur 5/14 Course Wrap-up
FINAL EXAM : None