CMP SCI 791M - Seminar: Garbage Collection - Fall 1997

Instructors:
    J. Eliot B. Moss, Associate Professor
    Office: LGRC A217B (across from department main office)
    Hours: by appointment
    Email: moss@cs.umass.edu
    Phone: (413) 545-4206; Fax: (413) 545-1249

    Kathryn S. McKinley, Assistant Professor
    Office: LGRC A357
    Hours: by appointment
    Email: mckinley@cs.umass.edu
    Phone: (413) 545-2410; Fax: (413) 545-1249
Class schedule:
    Seminar:   Mon/Wed 3:35- 4:50  LGRT 202 (first meeting 9/8)
General class information
  • We will meet only one of Mon and Wed in each week (depends on dept colloquia)
  • The text is: Jones and Lins, "Garbage Collection", Wiley, 1996
  • The text is available at the Jeffrey Amherst College Store, downtown Amherst
  • Students will help present material from the text through the semester
  • This reading seminar carries 1 credit
  • Grades will be based on participation and presentation
  • Schedule of presentations:
    
     Date  Person              Chapter and Topic
     9/08  Moss             1: Intro, 2: Classical algorithms
     9/15  McKinley         3: Reference Counting
     9/22  Khan             4: Mark Sweep
     9/29  Weaver           5: Mark Compact
    10/06  Lindenmaier      6: Copying
    10/15* Kutlu            7: Generational
    10/20  Wright/Burrill   8: Incremental and Concurrent
    10/27  Wright/Burrill   8: Incremental and Concurrent
    11/03  Cahoon           9: GC for C
    11/10  Cavazos         10: GC for C++
    11/17  Singhai         11: Cache Consciousness
    11/24  Stefanovic/Moss 12: Distributed
    12/01  Stefanovic/Moss 12: Distributed
    12/08  TBD             TBD (and slippage :-)
    
    * = not a Monday
    
    Last update: 9/15/97