Chen Ding, Professor of Computer Science
WFs 3:25pm to 4:40 Gavett 206
CSC 252 teaches the fundamentals of modern computer organization, including software and hardware interfaces, assembly languages and C, memory hierarchy and program optimization, data parallelism and GPUs. It shows the underlying physical reality which the virtual world including AI is built and depends on.
Textbooks
Introduction to Programming with RISC-V by Borin, https://riscv-programming.org/book/riscv-book.html, required: §1 to §7.
Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective 3rd Edition by Bryant and O’Hallaron, required: §1, §4.1-4.4, §5 to §12.
CUDA C++ Programming Guide https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index.html §1 to §3.2.4 (including §3.2.4), §4, and §5.
For all other information, see Blackboard.
Except for using RISC-V as the main assembly language (rather than x86), the course is similar to the Spring 2023 course taught by Professor Yuhao Zhu. The previous year page also includes a set of past exams, problem sets, and their solutions.
Rochester Programming Systems Reseach 
[…] This is a course required for the Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Rochester. A graduate must understand in depth the underlying physical reality which the virtual world including AI is built and depends on, i.e. the fundamentals of modern computer organization, including software and hardware interfaces, assembly language and C programming, memory hierarchy and program optimization, parallelism and operating systems. The textbooks are listed here. […]