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I followed his course 6.5840 on distributed systems (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/, YouTube videos at https://youtube.com/
by rs186 11mo ago
I followed his course 6.5840 on distributed systems (https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/ https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/, YouTube videos at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbs...) and completed the labs. One day, out of curiosity, I looked up his name. Then I realized what a legend he is.
Great course by the way.
- tonyplee 11mo agoWould be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988...
- tptacek 11mo agoIn 1988? Just stick random semicolons in things.
- mindcrime 11mo ago> Would be cool if he adds a session on how to hack distributed system in 1988.. username: field password: technician
- oneshtein 11mo agoAccount "guest" with no password was provided by default back then, to help others do some work remotely, debug connection issues, or chat with admins.
- PeterStuer 11mo agoHonestly, there was not very much security back in those days. So much relied on trusting the Internet "community" not to abuse.
- pyyxbkshed 11mo agoI am also doing the course now in my freetime. Even I wasn't aware who he is. On a sidenote, what did you do after the course? It is an amazing course though!
- maxmcd 11mo agoI went here next: https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup https://www.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup
- rs186 11mo agoSadly, not much. My shitty job working on legacy systems doesn't really allow me to use it professionally. Still, I got a much better perspective on concurrency and systems in general, and when I occasionally see articles/videos about system design questions I could understand what they are talking about, which probably will be handy when the day arrives. I have a colleague who suggested that I could look at open source projects on distributed systems and get my hands wet, although I haven't had a chance to do that due to time constraints. Maybe something you could consider.
- Dave_Rosenthal 11mo agoRTM was my TA at MIT for a CS/systems engineering course. It took the students until we did an assignment about the worm to realize who he was IIRC. The students thought it was very cool, but even then, as a TA covering the assignment, he didn't really talk about it.
- arbuge 11mo agoHe was also a TA at Harvard with Trevor Blackwell for CS 148 (computer networking, taught by H T Kung) at the time. I remember taking that with them in 1995.
- ww520 11mo agoHis dad was a legend as well, chief scientist in NSA.
- moc_saves 11mo ago[flagged]