6.033: Computer System Engineering - Spring 2001

6.033 At A Glance, Spring Term, 2001 (4/21/01)

Week of Monday	Monday Lecture	Tuesday Recitation	Wednesday Lecture	Thursday Recitation	Friday Other
2/5 - 2/9		R1: Lucky's Bozos on the bus *First day of classes*	L1: Intro to systems Read:Ch 1[a,b,c]	R2: Simon, Gabriel	Writing Program Read: Gopen
2/12 - 2/16	L2: Major lessons and technology trends Read:Ch 1[d,e]	R3: Leveson	L3: System structure Read:Ch 3.A	R4: X-window system
2/19 - 2/23	Presidents' Day Holiday	Monday Schedule L4: Virtual Memory Read:Ch 3.B	L5: Storage hierarchy Read:Ch 3.C	R5: VM for OOP
2/26 - 3/2	L6: Threads Read:Ch 3.D	R6: UNIX	L7: Coordination Read:Ch 3.E	R7: Eraser
3/5 - 3/9	L8: Networking intro Read:Ch 4.A	R8: Ethernet	L9: Network layers Read:Ch 4.B	R9: TBD Assigned: Design Project 1	QUIZ 1: material through R8 *Add date*
3/12 - 3/16	L10: Link and Network layer Read:Ch 4.C + 4.D	R10: Mobile IP	L11: E/E layer Read:Ch 4.E	R11: End-to-end argument	Writing program
3/19 - 3/23	L12: Congestion and flow control	R12: Click modular router	L13: Names Read:Ch 5.A + 5.B	R13: NAT Due: Design Project 1
3/26 - 3/30	Spring break	Spring break	Spring break	Spring break	Spring break
4/2 - 4/6	L14: Naming networks Read:Ch 5 Appendix C	R14: Grapevine	L15: Security Read: Ch 6.A + 6.B	R15: Appendix Chapter 6---War stories
4/9 - 4/13	L16: Authentication Read: Read:Ch 6.C + 6.D	R16: Trusting Trust	L17: Authorization Read: Ch 6.E	R17: Why crypto systems fail Assigned: Design Project 2
4/16 - 4/20	Patriots' Day: no class	Patriots' Day	L18: Certification Read: Ch 6.F	R18: TBA	QUIZ 2: material from L9 through R17
4/23 - 4/27	L19: Fault Tolerant Computing Read: Ch 7	R19: RAID	L20: Transactions Read: Ch 8.A + 8.B	R20: LFS *Drop date*
4/30 - 5/4	L21: Implementing transactions Read: Ch 8.C + 8.D	R21: System R	L22: Modular transactions Read: Ch 8.E	R22: More system R Read: Read Petroski & Plauger
5/7 - 5/11	L23: Replication and consistency Read:Coda paper, Section 1, 2, and 3	R23:Read the rest of the Coda paper	L24:Replication II Read:Echo paper, Section 1, 2, and 3	R24: Read the rest of the Echo paper Due: Design Project 2
5/14 - 5/18	L25:System Design Read: Brooks Ch 1,2,4	R25: Project Presentations	L26: Coping with complexity Read: Brooks Ch 5,8,11	R26: Lampson's Hints *Last day of classes*
5/21	QUIZ 3: material from L18 through R26, will be held on Monday May 21, 1:30p-4:30p in Johnson

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