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 Hipkins speaks on "Mining Association Rules between Sets of Items in Large Databases"
Data structures topic emails due on or before October 27
11 Mon 11/3 Dotson speaks on quadtrees
12 Mon 11/10 Hutchins speaks on BGP 4
Barrett speaks on R+-trees
13 Mon 11/17 Mitchell speaks on Alphasort
Medina speaks on K-D-B trees
14 Mon 11/24 School Holiday: Thanksgiving
15 Mon 12/1 Hipkins speaks on (a join algorithm)
Zuniga speaks on suffix trees
16 Mon 12/8 Ramirez speaks on treaps
Orozco Lopez speaks on skip lists
Fri 12/12, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m FINAL EXAM : No exam

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