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時間： 105.12.8(四) 13:30~15:30
地點： 工程三館 330室
演講者：George V. Neille-Neil
（FreeBSD core team member, FreeBSD foundation director）
演講題目：Teaching, and Understanding, Systems Software with FreeBSD and DTrace
演講摘要：
We have observed a decline in the teaching of operating systems
fundamentals in a period where it is becoming more important, in large
part due to a lack of contemporary and re-usable material, and
training for people to teach operating systems. Where such courses
still exist they work with toys rather than real systems, avoid
interesting micro-architectural elements required to achieve
performance on contemporary systems, omit coverage of the features
developers are most likely to engage with e.g., multi-threading,
multi-core hardware, and networking. Finally, and perhaps most
importantly, they fail to teach suitable experimental methodology to
allow developers to evaluate whether their performance work is
effective.
It is our belief that giving students the ability to observe, at run
time, the inner workings of a complex system, such as the FreeBSD
Operating System, provides them with a clearer understanding of how
such systems ought to work in theory, how they actually work in
practice, and how to design systems that attain a very high quality in
the field.
All of our teaching materials are on line: http://teachbsd.org
講者介紹：
George likes to say that he, "Works on networking and operating system
code for fun and profit." Writing machine code, building hardware and
teaching computing since his teens, his first profit making
programming gig was hacking DBase III code for an insurance company
while still in High School. He published his first piece of commercial
software, an audio digitizer for the then popular Amiga computer,
while still in college.
He is the author of two leading books on operating systems, the latest
co-authored with Marshall Kirk McKusick and Robert N. M. Watson of The
Design and implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System 2nd Ed.
Standing firmly at the intersection of industry and academia and due
to his top ranking as software development, George has worked on
research projects with the University of Cambridge as well as the
University of Twente in the Netherlands. He has spent many years
producing commercial software for companies such as Wind River
Systems, who, along with NASA, put a bit of his code on Mars with the
Pathfinder probe.
For over ten years he has been the columnist better known as Kode
Vicious, producing the most widely read column in both of ACM's
premier flagship magazines, "Queue" and "Communications of the ACM".
More recently he was tapped to chair the ACM Practitioner Board, which
is dedicated to bridging the gap between research and industry, where
he helped create the ACM Applicative conference.
He is an avid bicyclist and traveler who speaks several languages
including Japanese, and Dutch as well as English, and has lived and
worked in Amsterdam and Tokyo. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New
York.