6.033 AT A GLANCE, SPRING TERM, 1999, Revision 1.0

Week of Monday

Monday

Lecture

Tuesday

Recitation

Wednesday

Lecture

Thursday

Recitation

Friday

Other

2/1

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2/5

  

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

2/8

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2/12

L2: Major lessons & technology trends

Read:Saltzer Ch 2

R3: Leveson

L3: System structure

R4: X-window system

  

2/15

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2/19

Presidents Day

L4: Virtual memory

L5: Storage hierarchy

R5: VM for OO

  

2/22

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2/26

L6: Threads

R6: UNIX

L7: Concurrency

R7: Eraser

  

3/1

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3/5

L8: Networking intro

R8: Remote procedure call

L9: Network layers

R9: Ethernet

Assigned:Design Project 1

QUIZ 1: material through R8

Add date

3/8

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3/12

L10: Link and Network layer

R10: Mobile IP

L11: E/E layer

R11: End-to-end argument

Writing program

3/15

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3/19

L12: Congestion and flow control

R12: TBD

L13: Names

R13: Semantic file system

Due:Design Project1

  

3/22-3/26

Spring vacation: have fun!

3/29

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4/2

L14: Naming networks

R14: Grapevine

L15: Security

Read:Spafford and Lerman

R15: Appendix Chapter 6

  

4/5

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4/9

L16: Authentication

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

R16: Kerberos

L17: Authorization

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

R17: Why crypto systems fail

Assigned:Design Project 2

 

4/12-

4/16

L18: Certification

R18: TBD

L19: Fault tolerant computing

R19: Gray & Siewiorek, Plauger, Petroski

QUIZ 2: material from L9 through R18

4/19

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4/23

Patriot's day

Patriot's day

L20: Transactions

R20: RAID

Drop date

  

4/26

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4/30

L21: Implementing transactions

R21: System R

L22: Modular transactions

R22: LFS

Due:Design Project 2

  

5/3-

5/7

L23: Replication and consistency

Read:Brooks Ch 12 4

R23: Coda

L24: Complexity

Read:Brooks Ch 5 8 11

R24: Project presentations

  

5/10-5/14

L25: Wrap up

R25: Press, Lampson

QUIZ 3: covers L19 through L25

R26: Wrap up

Last day of classes

NO FINAL!

6.033 Handout 0: Tentative schedule (1/25/99).