1. Naming
2. Fault Isolation with Clients and Servers
3. Virtualization and Virtual Memory
4. Virtual Processors: Threads and Coordination
5. Performance
6. Introduction to Networks
7. Layering and Link Layer
8. Network Layer and Routing
9. End-to-End Layer
10. Congestion Control
11. Distributed Naming
12. Reliability
13. Atomicity Concepts
14. Recoverability
15. Isolation
16. Transactions and Consistency
17. Multi-site Atomicity
18. Security Introduction
19. Authentication
20. Authorization and Confidentiality
21. Advanced Authentication
22. Complex and Trusted Systems

In this course, Professor Hari Balakrishnan gives 25 video lectures on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems: techniques for controlling complexity; strong modularity using client-server design, virtual memory, and threads; networks; atomicity and coordination of parallel activities; recovery and reliability; privacy, security, and encryption; and impact of computer systems on society. The Instructor will also look at case studies of working systems and readings from the current literature provide comparisons and contrasts, and do two design projects. In these video lectures, students engage in extensive written communication exercises. This course is worth 4 Engineering Design Points.
This course was also taught as part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) programme as course number SMA 5501 (Computer System Engineering).