Schedule for the JVM seminar, 1999 - 2000

We'll have about 11 meetings in the spring; each lasts about 2 hours (from 3 to 5 PM) and all meetings will be held in Room 400 AKW.

  • Jan 26     Java Reflection and Binary Compatibility (Bratin)     (See related papers)
  • Feb 02     JVM Memory Management (Stefan)     (See related papers)
  • Feb 09     JVM Discussion
  • Feb 16     No meeting
  • Feb 23     Java Instructions (Dachuan)     (Venners98 Ch 15-19; LY99 Ch 6-7; Engel99 Ch 10)
  • Mar 01     Threads and Locks (Vinod)     (LY99 Ch 8; Venners98 Ch 20)
  • Mar 22     KVM (Garvin)
  • Mar 29     Remote Method Invocation     (See related papers)
  • Apr 05
  • Apr 12
  • Apr 19     JIT Compilers (Zhanyong)     (See related papers)
  • Meetings in Fall 1999:

  • Sep 08     Admin (Arvind/Zhong)
  • Sep 15     Java Overview (Zhong)     (LY99 Ch 2; AG97; GJS96)
  • Sep 22     Java, JVM and JRE Overview (Zhong/Arvind)     (LY99 Ch 3; Venners98 Ch 5)
  • Sep 29     No Meeting    
  • Oct 06     JVM and JRE Overview (Arvind)     (LY99 Ch 3; Venners98 Ch 5)
  • Oct 13     Class File Format and Bytecode Verification (Chris)     (LY99 Ch 4; Venners98 Ch 6-7)
  • Oct 20     Bytecode Verification and Class Loading (Chris/Valery)     (LY99 Ch 4-5; Venners98 Ch 6-8)
  • Oct 27     Loading, Linking, and Initializing (Valery)     (LY99 Ch 5; Venners98 Ch 8)
  • Nov 04*   Loading, Linking, and Initializing (Valery)     (LY99 Ch 5; Venners98 Ch 8)
  • Nov 10     Java Native Interface (Antony)     (Liang99)
  • Nov 17     Java Security (Poojan,Nadeem)     (Gong99)
  • Nov 22*   (2 - 4 PM) Java Security (Poojan,Nadeem)     (Gong99)

  • Main Books: LY99 (available online); GJS96 (available online); Venners98 ($35.96 at Amazon) or Venners99 ($39.99 at Amazon); Engel99 ($39.95 at Amazon); MDS97 ($26.36 at Amazon); Liang99 ($39.95 at Amazon); Gong99 ($34.95 at Amazon); AG97 ($37.95 at Amazon). We should have multiple copies of these books circulated among the seminar attendees. Priority will be given to the current or the upcoming speakers.

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