Introduction to Operating Systems

The [Course Wiki](https://www.udacity.com/wiki/ud923) serves as the syllabus for Introduction to Operating Systems. But, for a high-level view of the course, we have listed the lessons:

Part 1: Introduction

- Lesson 1: Course Overview - Lesson 2: Introduction to Operating Systems

Part 2: Process and Thread Management

- Lesson 1: Processes and Process Management - Lesson 2: Threads and Concurrency - Lesson 3: Threads Case Study: PThreads - Lesson 4: Thread Implementation Considerations - Lesson 5: Thread Performance Considerations

Part 3: Resource Management and Communication

- Lesson 1: Scheduling - Lesson 2: Memory Management - Lesson 3: Inter-Process Communication - Lesson 4: Synchronization Constructs - Lesson 5: I/O Management - Lesson 6: Resource Virtualization

Part 4: Distributed Systems

- Lesson 1: Remote Services - Lesson 2: Distributed File Systems - Lesson 3: Distributed Shared Memory - Lesson 4: Data Center Technologies

Ada Gavrilovska - Ada is a senior research faculty at the College of Computing and the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech. Her interests include conducting experimental systems research, specifically addressing high-performance applications on distributed heterogeneous platforms, and focusing on topics that range from operating and distributed systems, to virtualization, to programmable network devices and communication accelerators, to active and adaptive middleware and I/O.

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