Subject: Fwd: Gjesteforelesning fra Andrew Tanenbaum
From: Kolbjørn Barmen (Kolbjorn.Barmen@uninett.no)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 10:36:09 CEST
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-- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter>Sender: plageman@ifi.uio.no >Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:25:28 +0200 >From: Thomas Plageman <plageman@ifi.uio.no> >X-Accept-Language: en >To: ansatte@ifi.uio.no >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.
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