CMSC 491P

Developing Palmtop Systems

Mon & Wed  3:30pm-4:45pm

Description

This 3 credit course will cover advanced topics in Operating Systems.

Course Organization

 
Instructor: Anupam Joshi
Office: ECS 225 E
Office Phone: 455-2590
E-Mail Address: joshi@cs.umbc.edu
Office Hours: By appointment 		 TA: Vlad Korolev
Office: ECS 231
Office Phone: x2861
E-Mail Address:vkorol1@cs.umbc.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

Course Information (or Stuff you should know up front ...)

This is a project oriented course devoted to learning about system development issues for small mobile computing devices such as the PalmPilot. The goal is to introduce the basics of the undelying hardware and OS issues, and give students first hand experience building novel applications using existing development tools. We will also explore research issues raised by these kinds of systems, including power management, HCI issues, mobile computing, and wireless networking. The projects may be done by individuals or small groups. Students will be required to do presentations in class including project proposal, project design, and relevant papers in the mobile computing literature. The grades will be based on the project and presentations. We will also invite outside exprets from the industry to give lectures to students. Lectures are a very small component of this course, and formal lectures will be only be held in the begining of the semester.

Prerequisites:

Students are expected to have a background in Assembly Language Programing and Data Structures.

Grading

  • Project
  • Presentations 20%

    • Academic Dishonesty

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