Suchergebnis: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2018
Informatik Master | ||||||
Vertiefungsfächer | ||||||
Vertiefung General Studies | ||||||
Seminar in General Studies | ||||||
Nummer | Titel | Typ | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
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263-2930-00L | Blockchain Security Seminar Number of participants limited to 26. The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar. | W | 2 KP | 2S | P. Tsankov | |
Kurzbeschreibung | This seminar introduces students to the latest research trends in the field of blockchains. | |||||
Lernziel | The objectives of this seminar are twofold: (1) learning about the blockchain platform, a prominent technology receiving a lot of attention in computer Science and economy and (2) learning to convey and present complex and technical concepts in simple terms, and in particular identifying the core idea underlying the technicalities. | |||||
Inhalt | This seminar introduces students to the latest research trends in the field of blockchains. The seminar covers the basics of blockchain technology, including motivation for decentralized currency, establishing trust between multiple parties using consensus algorithms, and smart contracts as a means to establish decentralized computation. It also covers security issues arising in blockchains and smart contracts as well as automated techniques for detecting vulnerabilities using programming language techniques. | |||||
263-3504-00L | Hardware Acceleration for Data Processing The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar. | W | 2 KP | 2S | G. Alonso, T. Hoefler, C. Zhang | |
Kurzbeschreibung | The seminar will cover topics related to data processing using new hardware in general and hardware accelerators (GPU, FPGA, specialized processors) in particular. | |||||
Lernziel | The seminar will cover topics related to data processing using new hardware in general and hardware accelerators (GPU, FPGA, specialized processors) in particular. | |||||
Inhalt | The general application areas are big data and machine learning. The systems covered will include systems from computer architecture, high performance computing, data appliances, and data centers. | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Students taking this seminar should have the necessary background in systems and low level programming. | |||||
263-3900-00L | Communication Networks Seminar Number of participants limited to 20. The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar. | W | 2 KP | 2S | A. Singla | |
Kurzbeschreibung | We explore recent advances in networking by reading high quality research papers, and discussing open research opportunities, most of which are suitable for students to later take up as thesis or semester projects. | |||||
Lernziel | The objectives are (a) to understand the state-of-the-art in the field; (b) to learn to read, present and critique papers; (c) to engage in discussion and debate about research questions; and (d) to identify opportunities for new research. Students are expected to attend the entire seminar, choose a topic for presentation from a given list, make a presentation on that topic, and lead the discussion. Further, for each reading, every student needs to submit a review before the in-class discussion. Students are evaluated on their submitted reviews, their presentation and discussion leadership, and participation in seminar discussions. | |||||
Literatur | A program will be posted here: Link, comprising of a list of papers the seminar group will cover. | |||||
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | An undergraduate-level understanding of networking, such that the student is familiar with concepts like reliable transport protocols (like TCP) and basics of Internet routing. ETH courses that fulfill this requirement: Computer Networks (252-0064-00L) and its predecessor (Operating Systems and Networks -- 252-0062-00L). Similar courses at other universities are also sufficient. | |||||
263-4505-00L | Algorithms for Large-Scale Graph Processing The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar. | W | 2 KP | 2S | M. Ghaffari | |
Kurzbeschreibung | This is a theory seminar, where we present and discuss recent algorithmic developments for processing large-scale graphs. In particular, we focus on Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) algorithms. MPC is a clean and general theoretical framework that captures the essential aspects of computational problems in large-scale processing settings such as MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, Dryad, etc. | |||||
Lernziel | This seminar familiarizes students with foundational aspects of large-scale graph processing, and especially the related algorithmic tools and techniques. In particular, we discuss recent developments in the area of Massively Parallel Computation. This is a mathematical abstraction of practical large-scale processing settings such as MapReduce, and it has been receiving significant attention over the past few years. The seminar assumes no particular familiarity with parallel computation. However, we expect that all the students are comfortable with basics of algorithms design and analysis, as well as probability theory. In the course of the seminar, the students learn how to structure a scientific presentation (in English) which covers the key ideas of a paper, while omitting the less significant details. | |||||
Inhalt | The seminar will cover a number of the recent papers on Massively Parallel Computation. As mentioned above, no familiarity with parallel computation is needed and all the relevant background information will be explain by the instructor in the first lecture. | |||||
Literatur | The papers will be presented in the first session of the seminar. |
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