The schedule is preliminary. 

Week 1:

• Wednesday Jan 23: Introduction
• Friday Jan 25: An Overview of Virtual Machine Architectures (reviews)

Week 2:

• Monday Jan 28: (1) Path Profiling (2) An Application of Path Profiling, review both! (reviews)
• Wednesday Jan 30: (required) HP Dynamo, (optional, more details: Dynamo TR, 102 pages) slides (reviews)
• Friday Feb 1: Jikes (a.k.a. IBM Jalapeno Java VM) (papers and tutorials on Jalapeno, optional) (reviews)

Week 3:

• Monday Feb 4: Discussion of Dynamo, Jalapeno, continued.  Project infrastructure discussion. (reviews)
• Wednesday Feb 6: Run-time program specialization, plus sections 1-3 from DyC (reviews)
• Friday Feb 8: Calpa (automatic annotations for DyC) (reviews)

Week 4:

• Monday Feb 11:HijackGL Guest Speaker: Alex Mohr, UW (reviews)
• Wednesday Feb 13: cancelled (guest talk rescheduled)
• Friday Feb 15:Slipstream Processors (reviews)

Week 5:

• Monday Feb 18: Master/Slave Speculative Parallelization (get a hardcopy of the paper from Ras), Guest speaker: Craig Zilles, UW (reviews)
• Wednesday Feb 20: Time-Shifted Modules (reviews)
• Friday Feb 22: Speculative Lock Elision (reviews)

Week 6:

• Monday Feb 25: Presentation topics.
• Wednesday Feb 27: Project ideas. Time-shifted modules, Speculative lock elision, concluded.
• Friday Feb 29: no class

Week 7:

• Monday Mar 4: no class, project ideas due Monday 7pm
• Wednesday Mar 6: Register allocation for OOO processors (reviews)
1. Thursday, afternoon, project proposal meetings
• Friday Mar 8: project proposal meetings, cont. (during class time)

Week 8:

• Monday Mar 11: Efficient Software-Based Fault Isolation (reviews)
• Wednesday Mar 13: Watermarking, obfuscation, Kelly and Steven (reviews)
• Friday Mar 15: no class

Week 9:

• Monday Mar 18: critical-path analysis, Ras (reviews)
• Wednesday Mar 20: Memory parallelism and prefetching, Brad and Tejas (reviews)
• Friday Mar 22: no class, project proposals due Friday 6pm.

Week 10:

• Mar 25 -- 29: Spring break.

Week 11:

• Monday Apr 1: Making C safe (Min, Vinod, and Xidong).
• Wednesday Apr 3: Safely extending operating systems (Brian, Keith, and Will).
• Friday Apr 5: no class

Week 12:

• Monday Apr 8: no class.
• Wednesday Apr 10: Reverse Execution Debugging (David and Venkat).
• Friday Apr 12:  Progress reports (5-minute madness).

Week 13:

• Monday Apr 15: Jong-Deok Choi, Datarace detection (get papers from Ras, availability date TBA)
• Wednesday Apr 17: Run-ahead prefetching (Kerry and Weiping)
• Friday Apr 19: no class

Week 14:

• Monday Apr 22: Christian Collberg's talk
• Wednesday Apr 24: Memoization (Arman Rouf)
• Friday Feb 26: no class

Week 15:

• Monday Apr 29: no class
• Wednesday May 1: checking properties of software (Ras)
• Friday May 3: no class, paper submissions due Thursday May 2, 6pm.

Week 16:

• Monday May 6: no class, final paper reviews due Tuesday May 7, 6pm.
• Wednesday May 8: mining specification (Ras)
• Friday May 10: no class, final paper due Friday May 10, 6pm.

Week 17:

• Monday May 13: project presentations I
• Wednesday May 15: project presentations II