CS 6553 Operating Systems Daily Topics
Listed here are the topics covered in each class.

1. Tuesday, January 16
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, common mistakes 1-9, ATM example
2. Thursday, January 18
Finished Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, through Historical Test Workloads
3. Tuesday, January 23
Chapter 4, Popular Bnechmarks, SPEC in detail
4. Thursday, January 25
5. Tuesday, January 29
Chapter 6, Principal Component Analysis, upto Markov Processes
6. Thursday, February 1
Class cancelled, UTSA closed due to ice.
7. Tuesday, February 6
Chapter 6, Markov Processes with simple and memory reference examples
8. Thursday, February 8
Finish memory reference example, finish Chapter 6
9. Tuesday, February 13
Discuss assignment 1, part 1
10. Thursday, February 15
Finish discussing Assignment 1, Start Chapter 7
11. Tuesday, February 20
Finish Chapter 7, Start Chapter 12, through conditional probability
12. Thursday, February 22
Continue Chapter 12, starting with CDF, ending with normal distribution
13. Tuesday, February 27
Continue Chapter 12, starting with use of tables for the normal distribution, up to choosing an index of dispersion.
14. Thursday, February 29
Discuss Assignment 3, Finish Chapter 12
15. Tuesday, March 5
Start Chapter 13, up to the t-distribution
16. Thursday, March 7
Return and go over Assignment 4,
continue Chpater 13 through comparing unpaired observations
17. Tuesday, March 12
18. Thursday, March 14
Return and go over midterm exam, discuss exam extra credit,
continue Chapter 13 starting with approximate visual test for unpaired observations through one-sided confidence intervals
-------------------- Spring Break --------------------
19. Tuesday, March 26
Finish Chapter 13. Chapter 14 through 14.2
20. Thursday, March 28
21. Tuesday, April 2
Discuss projects, network protocols, timers and signals
22. Thursday, April 4
Start Chapter 15, through Section 15.1
23. Tuesday, April 9
Return and discuss assignment 5,
Continue Chapter 15 : Section 15.2, 15.3
24. Thursday, April 11
Continue Chapter 15 starting with 15.4
25. Tuesday, April 16
Evaluations, Written project report due, random numburs
26. Thursday, April 18
27. Tuesday, April 23
28. Thursday, April 25
30. Tuesday, April 30
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