COMP 517: Resource Aware Programming (RAP) Seminar, Spring 2009

Instructor:	Walid Taha	Lectures:	Duncan Hall (DH) 3110	Time:	MWF 9:00-9:50 am

Here is a link to last semester's seminar.

Introduction

The focus of the seminar this semester will be determined at the start of the semester. Please see previous year links and discussion page for topics currently being considered.

Project Proposals

Please review the technical writing tips before submitting your written work or presenting a talk.

Name	Topic/Proposal	Discussion	Report
Angela	...	...
Cherif	...	...
Jun	...	...	...
Edwin	...	...	...
Ron	...	...	...
Marisa	...	...	...
Richard	...	...	...
Fulong	...	...	...

Related Links

• Current Paper Plans
• Feedback Form
• Zen and Presentation

Course Schedule

Please note that any future dates may change, and these are only guidelines.

Crossed out dates indicate holidays; crossed out topics/speakers indicate canceled/rescheduled talks.

#	Day	Date	Misc	Topic/Reading Due	Abstract/Slides	Speaker	Notes(scribe)
1	Mon	Jan 5
2	Wed	Jan 7
3	Fri	Jan 9		Suggestions & Planning
4	Mon	Jan 12	DH 3076	Suggestions & Planning
5	Wed	Jan 14		Lazy Evaluation and Delimited Control		Ron
6	Fri	Jan 16		Static Consistency Checking for Verilog Wire Interconnects		Cherif
7	Mon	Jan 19		Martin Luther King Day
7	Wed	Jan 21		No Class - POPL/PEPM
7	Fri	Jan 23		No Class - POPL/PEPM
7	Mon	Jan 26		Multi-stage Programming I		Walid	Jun (notes)
8	Wed	Jan 28	DH 3076	Multi-stage Programming II		Ed
9	Fri	Jan 30		Multi-stage Programming III		Ed
10	Mon	Feb 2		Multi-stage Programming IV		Walid
11	Wed	Feb 4	DH 3092	Implementing Haptic Feedback Tasks from Dynamic Equations		Group Discussion
12	Fri	Feb 6	DH 2014	A Gentle Introduction to Multi-stage Programming - Part II		Group Discussion	Angela (notes)
13	Mon	Feb 9		A Gentle Introduction to Multi-stage Programming		Group Discussion	Cherif (notes)
14	Wed	Feb 11		Organizational Meeting		Walid
15	Fri	Feb 13		Multi-staged programming tutorial		Group Discussion
16	Mon	Feb 16		Compiling Staged Java with OpenJDK?: A Proposal		Ed	Jun (notes)
17	Wed	Feb 18		Power to the people!		Walid	Angela (notes)
18	Fri	Feb 20		Continued discussion of power paper			Marisa (notes)
19	Mon	Feb 23		on memoization		Jun
20	Wed	Feb 25		Thesis Proposal		Fulong	Richard (notes)
21	Fri	Feb 27		The VPP Verilog Preprocessor (HFL practice)		Cherif
22	Mon	Mar 2		Spring Break
22	Wed	Mar 4		Spring Break
22	Fri	Mar 6		Spring Break
22	Mon	Mar 9		Exploring the Design Space of Higher-order Casts (ESOP practice)		Ron
23	Wed	Mar 11		Acumen		Angela
24	Fri	Mar 13		Should Java Concoqtion be based on LF or on Coq?		Ron
25	Mon	Mar 16
26	Wed	Mar 18		Latches, a Master-Slave, and a Counter		Richard
27	Fri	Mar 20		VPP Discussion		(notes)
28	Mon	Mar 23		Correctness of Monadically Memoized Staging		Jun	(notes)
29	Wed	Mar 25		Master Thesis Defense (part I)		Angela
30	Fri	Mar 27					(notes
31	Mon	Mar 30
32	Wed	Apr 1
33	Fri	Apr 3		Midterm Recess
33	Mon	Apr 6
34	Wed	Apr 8		3d Bike in Acumen		Marisa
35	Fri	Apr 10
36	Mon	Apr 13
37	Wed	Apr 15
38	Fri	Apr 17

Accomodations for Students with Special Needs

Students with disabilities are encouraged to contact me during the first two weeks of class regarding any special needs. Students with disabilities should also contact Disabled Student Services in the Ley Student Center and the Rice Disability Support Services.

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