6.033: Computer System Engineering

6.033: Computer System Engineering - Spring 2000

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6.033 At A Glance, Spring Term, 2000 (1/19/00)

Week of
Monday
Monday
Lecture
Tuesday
Recitation
Wednesday
Lecture
Thursday
Recitation
Friday
Other
1/31
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2/4
   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
2/7
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2/11
 L2: Major lessons and technology trends
Read: Saltzer Ch 2		 R3: Leveson L3: System structure
 R4: X-window system  
2/14
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2/18
 L4:Virtual memory R4:UNIX L5:
Storage hierarchy		 R5:VM for OO  
2/21
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2/25
 Presidents Day L6: Threads
 L7: Concurrency
 R7: Eraser  
2/28
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3/3
 L8: Networking intro
 R8: Ethernet
L9: Network layers
 R9: TBD
Assigned: Design Project 1		 QUIZ 1: material through R8
Add date
3/6
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3/10
 L10: Link and Network layer
 R10: Mobile IP L11: E/E layer
 R11: End-to-end argument Writing program
3/13
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3/17
 L12: Congestion and flow control
 R12: Click modular router L13: Names
 R13: NAT
Due: Design
Project 1		  
3/20
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3/24
 Spring break Spring break Spring break Spring break Spring break
3/27
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3/31
 L14: Naming networks
 R14: Grapevine L15: Security
Read: Spafford and Lerman		 R15: Appendix
Chapter 6		  
4/3
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4/7
 L16: Authentication
Read: Saltzer's Protection in computer systems (Sec. I)		 R16: Trusting Trust L17: Authorization
Read: Saltzer's Protection in computer systems (Sec. II)		 R17: Why crypto systems fail
Assigned: Design Project 2		  
4/10
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4/14
 L18: Certification
 R18: TBD L19: Fault tolerant computing
 R19: Gray and Siewiorek, Plauger, Petroski QUIZ 2: material from L9 through R18
4/17
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4/21
 Patriot's Day Patriot's Day L20: Transactions
 R20: RAID
Drop date		  
4/24
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4/28
 L21: Implementing transactions R21: System R L22: Modular transactions
 R22: LFS
Due: Design
Project 2		  
5/1
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5/5
 L23: Replication and consistency
Read: Brooks Ch 1,2,4		 R23: Coda L24: Complexity
Read: Brooks Ch 5,8,11		 R24: Project presentations  
5/8
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5/12
 L25: Wrap up R25: Press,Lampson QUIZ 3: material from L19 through L25
R26: Wrap up
Last day of classes		 NO FINAL!

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