6.033 AT A GLANCE, SPRING TERM, 1998, Revision 1.0

Week of Monday

Monday

Lecture

Tuesday

Recitation

Wednesday

Lecture

Thursday

Recitation

Friday

Other

2/2

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2/6

  

R1: Lucky's Bozos on the bus

First day of classes

L1: Intro to systems

Read:Saltzer Ch 1

R2: Simon, Gabriel

Writing Program

Read:Gopen

2/9

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2/13

L2: Major lessons & technology trends

Read:Saltzer Ch 2

R3: Leveson

L3: System structure

R4: X-window system

  

2/16

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2/20

Presidents Day

L4: Virtual memory

Read:Ward 16 & 18

L5: Threads

Read:Birrell's threads (p1-p22)

R5: UNIX

  

2/23

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2/27

L6: Concurrency

Read:Ward 19

R6: Eraser

L7: Networking: overview

Read:Halstead I (or new notes)

R7: Birrell and Nelson's RPC

  

3/2

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3/6

L8: Network layers

Read:Halstead II (or new notes)

R8: Ethernet and High-speed switching (Sections 1-3)

L9: Link and network layer

R9: Mobile IP

Assigned:Design Project 1

QUIZ 1: material through L8

Add date

3/9

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3/13

L10: E/E layer

R10: End-to-end argument

L11: Naming: overview

R11: DNS

Writing program

3/16

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3/20

L12: Naming network

R12: Semantic file system

L13: Security

Read:Lerman, Crisis and aftermath

R13: Mobile code or Active Networks?

Due:Design Project1

  

3/23-3/27

Spring vacation: have fun!

3/30

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4/3

L14: Authentication

Read:Saltzer's Protetion in computer systems (Sec. I)

R14: Kerberos

L15: Authorization

Read:Saltzer's Protetion in computer systems (Sec. II)

R15: Why crypto systems fail

  

4/6

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4/10

L16: Certification

R16: Saltzer Chapter 6 Appendix

L17: Fault tolerance

Read:Plauger, Petroski

R17: Gray & Siewiorek, Space shuttle

Assigned:Design Project 2

 

4/13-

4/17

L18: Transactions

R18: RAID

L19: Implementing transactions

R19: Cirrus banking

QUIZ 2: material from R8 through R16

4/20

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4/24

Patriot's day

Patriot's day

L20: Modular transactions

R20: System R

Drop date

  

4/27

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5/1

L21: Replication and consistency

R21: Coda

L22: Performance

R22: LFS

Due:Design Project 2

  

5/4-

5/8

L23: Performance analysis

Read:Brooks Ch 12 4

R23: LRPC

L24: Complexity

Read:Brooks Ch 5 8 11

R24: CONFIRM

  

5/11-5/15

L25: Wrap up

R25: Press, Lampson

QUIZ 3: covers L17 through R24

Last day of classes

NO FINAL!

6.033 Handout 0: Tentative schedule (1/20/98).