[Olug-list] Re: Gjesteforelesning fra Andrew Tanenbaum (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Subject: Re: Gjesteforelesning fra Andrew Tanenbaum

Hei!

Da har jeg glemmt noe:
Gjesteforlesningen fra Andrew Tanenbaum skal være fra 15:15 til 17:00
på fredag den 25. 10. 02.

Med vennlig hilsen,
Thomas Plagemann

Thomas Plageman wrote:

> Hei!
>
> Jeg har æren å invitere alle interesserte til en gjesteforelesning
> av Andrew Tanenbaum i INF242 Operativsystemer.
> Forlesningens tittel er:
>
> The Design of a Billion-User Worldwide Distributed System
>
> Se vedlagte abstract for forelesningen, samt informasjon om
> Andrew Tanenbaum.
>
> Forelesingen holdes fredag den 25.10.2002 i store auditorium og lille
> auditorium (videooverføring) på ifi. Videre blir forelesningen
> "webcastet" på Internett slik at de som ikke kan reise til ifi kan
> følge forelesningen over nettet! All nødvendig informasjon for å
> følge forelesningen via nettet finnes på
>
> http://www.usit.uio.no/it/dlo/lab/webcast/
>
> For de som er ikke kjent med INF242:
> For å undervise operativsystemer bruker vi (som mange
> andre) Andrew Tanenbaums bok "Modern Operating Systems"
> som pensum. Det som skiller kurset fra de fleste andre
> OS-kurs er kursets praktiske øvelser.
> I kurset utvikler studentene et operativsystem fra bunnen av. Dette
> gjøres gjennom fem prosjekter som bygger på hverandre. Studentene
> lager en egen bootblock, skriver en scheduler, implementerer
> systemkall, virtuelt minne, filsystem osv. Kurset er svært krevende,
> men den kunnskapen og innsikten som studentene erverver seg er
> betydelig dypere enn i andre typer OS-kurs. Kurset har blitt utviklet
> ved Universitet i Tromsø og blir forlest i Tromsø, ved Princeton
> University og ved Universitet i Oslo.
>
> Med vennlig hilsen,
> Thomas Plagemann
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The Design of a Billion-User Worldwide Distributed System
>
> Andrew S. Tanenbaum
>
> Vrije Universiteit
>
> With the enormous growth of wide-area networks, especially the Internet,
> one
> research focus within the operating systems community has moved to
> building
> systems that can connect together a billion users who collectively have
> a
> trillion objects.  No existing system can even begin to handle this.
> Current
> wide-area applications are constructed individually and do not have any
> common framework and do not interwork.  Furthermore, each new
> application
> developer must begin again from scratch, since pieces of existing
> systems are
> rarely reusable.
>
> The Globe system is being designed to address these problems.  It
> consists of
> an object-based layer of software ("middleware") that can be placed on
> top of
> each operating system to provide a common interface for applications to
> deal
> with.  The lecture will discuss the design of the Globe layer, including
> the
> properties of its objects, classes, and interfaces.  A key idea used in
> Globe
> is the distributed object, in which an object resides in multiple
> (possibly
> widely-separated) addresses spaces at the same time.  Properties and
> structure of distributed objects will be discussed, as will object
> binding
> and location, a highly complex matter for a system with a trillion
> (potentially mobile) objects owned by a billion users.
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Biography of Andrew S. Tanenbaum
>
> Andrew S. Tanenbaum was born in New York City and raised in White
> Plains, NY.
> He has an S.B.from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of
> California at Berkeley.  He is currently a Professor of Computer Science
>
> at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he teaches and does
> research
> in the areas of computer architecture, operating systems, networks, and
> distributed systems.
> He is also Dean of the interuniversity computer science graduate school,
> ASCI.
>
> Prof. Tanenbaum is the principal designer of three operating systems:
> TSS-11, Amoeba, and MINIX.
> TSS-11 was an early system for the PDP-11.
> Amoeba is a distributed operating systems for SUN, VAX, and similar
> workstation computers.
> MINIX is a system for the IBM PC, Atari, Macintosh, Amiga, and SPARC,
> providing a system as simple as real UNIX (i.e. Version 7) for
> educational
> use.
>
> Furthermore, Tanenbaum was also the chief designer of the Amsterdam
> Compiler Kit, a system that has been used to produce compilers for a
> half dozen languages on about 10 different machines.
> The Kit was widely used at universities and companies around the world.
>
> In addition, Tanenbaum is the author or coauthor of five books:
> "Distributed Systems" (2002),
> "Modern Operating Systems 2/e" (2001),
> "Structured Computer Organization, 4/e" (1999)
> "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, 2nd ed.", (1997), and
> "Computer Networks, 3rd ed." (1996).
> These books have been translated into 16 languages and are used all
> over the world.
> Tanenbaum has also published more than 90 refereed papers on a variety
> of
> subjects and has lectured in a dozen countries on many topics.
>
> Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and
> a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.  In 1994 he was the
> recipient of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.
> In 1997 he won the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to
> Computer Science.