6.033: Computer System Engineering

6.033: Computer System Engineering - Spring 1999

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General Information

Catalog description // Class meetings // Staff // TA office hours

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MIT catalog description

Prereq.: 6.004 Prereq: (and, by implication, 6.001 and 6.002)
U (2)
4-0-8

Topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems: techniques for controlling complexity; networks and distributed systems; atomicity and coordination of parallel activities; recovery and reliability; privacy of information; impact of computer systems on society. Case studies of working systems and outside reading in the current literature provide comparisons and contrasts. Additional credit for those completing laboratory project available via registration for 6.906, subject to enrollment limits. 4 Engineering Design Points.

Underground Review.

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Class meetings

Number   Time   Location   Instructor   TA
Lecture    MW2 34-101 Kaashoek
Special lectures    F2 34-101
Lab recitations    F2 36-153 Fu and Hu
Recitations (#1)   TR10   34-303   Sussman   Rahul
          (#11)   TR10   36-155   Rudolph   Forbess
          *(#2)   TR11   34-303   Sussman   Doering
          (#6)   TR11   34-302   Rudolph   Rahul
          (#4)   TR11   36-155   Seshan   Boyapati
          (#5)   TR12   34-303   Balakrishnan   Fu
          (#3)   TR1   36-839   Seshan   Forbess
          (#7)   TR1   34-303   Saltzer   Hu
          (#8)   TR1   34-302   Balakrishnan   Shlyakhter
          (#10)   TR1   36-153   Teller   Boyapati
          (#9)   TR2   34-303   Saltzer   Shlyakhter
          *(#12)   TR2   36-153   Teller   Doering

* Note change of TA

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Staff

Lectures
Frans Kaashoek   NE43-522   3-7149   kaashoek@mit.edu
 
Recitations
Hari Balakrishnan   NE43-510   3-8713   hari@lcs.mit.edu
Larry Rudolph   NE43-208   3-6562   rudolph@abp.lcs.mit.edu
Jerry Saltzer   NE43-513   3-6016   Saltzer@mit.edu
Srinivasan Seshan   NE43-509   3-3082   srini@watson.ibm.com
Gerald Sussman   NE43-428   3-5874   gjs@mit.edu
Seth Teller   NE43-252   8-7885   seth@lcs.mit.edu
 
Teaching assistants
Chandra Boyapati   NE43-525   3-3058   chandra@lcs.mit.edu
Jeff Doering   24-321      jdoering@mit.edu
Jessica Forbess   24-321      jforbess@mit.edu
Kevin Fu   NE43-520A   504-7527   fubob@mit.edu
Jeffrey Hu   24-321      jhu@mit.edu
Hariharan Rahul   NE43-503   3-5155   rahul@lcs.mit.edu
Ilya Shlyakhter   NE43-703   3-8793   ilya_shl@mit.edu
 
Course secretary
Neena Lyall   NE43-523   3-6019   lyall@lcs.mit.edu

Course TAs mailing list: 6.033-tas@mit.edu
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Course lab TAs mailing list: 6.033-lab-tas@mit.edu
Use this mailing list to contact the 6.033 lab TAs, Kevin Fu and Jeffrey Hu.

Course staff mailing list: 6.033-staff@mit.edu
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Tentative TA office hours

Chandra Boyapati   M 1-2, R 2:30-3:30  
Jeff Doering   T 3-4, R 1-2  
Jessica Forbess   M 4:30-5:30, R 4:30-5:30  
Kevin Fu   M 4-5, F 11:30-12:30  
Jeffrey Hu   M 1-2, W 3-4  
Hariharan Rahul   M 1-2, T 12-1  
Ilya Shlyakhter   M 4-5, F 3-4  

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