| August 26 | Power aware systems (slides - homework) | Prof. Daniel Mosse |
| August 28 | Prof. Daniel Mosse | |
| September 2 | Analyzing Server Scheduling Algorithms (reading material) | Prof. Kirk Pruhs |
| September 4 | Prof. Kirk Pruhs | |
| September 9 | Network Security | Prof. Jose Brustoloni |
| September 11 | Prof. Jose Brustoloni | |
| September 16 | Parsing Natural Languages | Prof. Rebecca Hwa |
| September 18 | Prof. Rebecca Hwa | |
| September 23 | Spoken Dialogue Systems | Prof. Diane Litman |
| September 25 | Prof. Diane Litman | |
| September 30 | Research methods (lecture slides) | Prof. Rami Melhem |
| October 2 | Prof. Rami Melhem | |
| October 7 | Storage Management: Trends, Goals, and Myths (web page) | Prof. Ahmed Amer |
| October 9 | Prof. Ahmed Amer | |
| October 14 | Online Algorithms | Prof. Patchrawat Uthaisombut |
| October 16 | Prof. Patchrawat Uthaisombut | |
| October 21 | Data management in new environments (web page) | Prof. Panos Chrysanthis |
| October 23 | Prof. Panos Chrysanthis | |
| October 24 | PROPOSALS FOR STUDENTS' PRESENTTIONS DUE TO melhem@cs.pitt.edu | |
| October 28 | Data management in new environments (web page) | Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis |
| October 30 | Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis | |
| November 4 | Emerging trends and future directions in networking research | Prof. Taieb Znati |
| November 6 | Prof. Taieb Znati | |
| November 11 | Compilers and Program Optimization for the New Millenium | Prof. Markus Mock |
| November 13 | Prof. Markus Mock | |
| November 18 | Software Dynamic Translation and Applications | Prof. Bruce Childers |
| November 20 | Prof. Bruce Childers | |
| November 25 | No class | |
| November 27 | Thanks Giving Recess | |
| December 2 |
James Clause: Regression Test Selection Jose Baiocchi: Aspect-oriented Programming Jonathan Misurda: Instrumentation for Code Coverage Testing | Students' presentations |
| December 4 |
Elizabeth Clause: Clustering in Large Multimedia Databases Qinglan Li: Schema Validation Takashi Okumura: The Google Cluster Architecture Beatriz Maeireizo: Multimodal Biometric Recognition | Students' presentations |
| December 9 |
Andrea Munteanu: Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems Joseph Slumber: Hypervisor-based fault-toilerance Brian Smyth: Remote Timing attacks Guanfeng Li: A Secure Bootsrap Architecture | Students' presentations |
| December 11 |
Saurabh Goel: Multicast-based protocols for mobility support Dan Li: TDM Switch scheduling David Essary: Wearable Computers | Students' presentations |