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CS 551 - Systems Programming

Credits: 3

A detailed study of the application program interface of a modern operating system. File operations, concurrency, processes, threads, inter-process communication, synchronization, client-server programming, multi-tier programming. Prerequisite: Undergraduate Operating Systems. Term offered varies.