Essentials of Computing Systems

Topic preferences

The main work of the Essentials of Computing Systems course is the self-study of a topic and a small project of your choice as a team. These teams are formed on Brightspace and are of size 10. Please fill in the form once per group with your group number and the student number of your group representative, who fills in the form. You can express your preference for a topics in that form. Each topic is typically assigned to two groups. Details about the topics can be found in the overview map and were presented in the introductory lectures.

Your preference is expressed as an integer for each topic. Higher numbers indicate a stronger preference. You can assign equal preferences to multiple topics. You do not have to assign a preference for every topic. The minimum number of preferences to submit is 3.

Topic assignment is performed by linear optimisation to achieve maximum "happiness", that is, to assign to as many groups as possible their most-preferred topic according to the given ranking. If none of your preferences is available, then you may also get a random topic that no one wants. Therefore, the more topics you assign a preference to, the more likely you are to get one of your preferred topics. Assigning more preferences does not affect your chances of getting the topics you prefer most.

The deadline for submitting your preferences is Friday, 23 September 2022 at 23:59.

Brightspace Group Number
Student number 1 (Group Representative)
Comments
Operating Systems - CPU Virtualisation
Operating Systems - Memory Virtualisation
Operating Systems - Concurrency
Operating Systems - Persistence
Operating Systems - Advanced Persistence
Operating Systems - Security
Computer Architecture - Digital Abstraction
Computer Architecture - Combinational Logic
Computer Architecture - Sequential Logic
Computer Architecture - Digital Building Blocks
Computer Architecture - Architecture
Computer Architecture - Memory and I/O
Computer Networks - Application Layer
Computer Networks - Transport Layer
Computer Networks - Network Layer
Computer Networks - Link Layer
Computer Networks - Wireless
Computer Networks - Security

Data processing

We store the following information: all fields submitted using this form, your IP address, and the date/time you submitted the form. This information is necessary to assign topics and to be able to investigate technical issues or abuse.

This information will be processed on the university's systems. In principle, it is only accessible to the teacher, but can be shared with IT support and/or the board of examiners in case of (suspected) problems. Based on the "Wet op het Hoger Onderwijs en Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek" and the rules and regulations of the education program, this information will be stored for two years.

Other information

All information about this course is available on Brightspace. If you have any questions, please let us know via essencs22@liacs.leidenuniv.nl, or the Brightspace forum.