Is there an accompanying textbook for your course or only the papers that are listed?
Not for the Advanced class. We cover state-of-the-art systems. Textbooks are about 10 years behind.
okay I'm curious - what are dirty systems programming skills, professor?
It's one of those things where you know it when you see it. I got 18 year old CMU students showing up knowing how write x86 SIMD intrinsics or ones with LLVM JIT experience. Dirty.
running sed against a binary to replace function calls because the source has been lost to the sands of time