6.033 lectures are in 26-100 at 2pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. Recitations are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
We will release the Spring 2015 assignments as the semester moves
along. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in
the future may be missing.
| Monday | Tuesday |
Wednesday | Thursday |
Friday |
feb 2
Reg day |
feb 3
REC 1: Worse is Better
Preparation: Read Worse is Better
Assigned: Hands-on DNS
First day of classes |
feb 4
LEC 1: Coping with Complexity: Enforced Modularity and Client/server Organization (slides)
Reading: Book sections 1.1-1.5, and 4.1-4.3 |
feb 5
REC 2: Therac-25
Preparation: Therac-25 paper |
feb 6
TUT 1: Introduction to system critiques (run by TAs)
Assigned: Paper critique #1 |
feb 9
LEC 2: Canceled due to snow
|
feb 10
REC 3: Canceled due to snow
|
feb 11
LEC 3: Naming (slides)
Reading: Book sections 2.2, and 3.1 |
feb 12
REC 4: DNS
Preparation: Book section 4.4: "Case study: The Internet Domain Name System (DNS)
DUE: Hands-on DNS
Assigned: Hands-on UNIX |
feb 13
TUT 2: How to read a paper (run by communication instructors)
Assigned: Paper critique #2 |
feb 16
President's day |
feb 17
LEC 4: Virtual memory (slides)
Reading: Book sections 5.1, 5.3, and 5.4
Monday schedule |
feb 18
LEC 5: Bounded buffers and locks (slides)
Reading: Book section 5.2 |
feb 19
REC 5: UNIX
Preparation: Unix paper
DUE: Hands-on UNIX
Assigned: Hands-on Valgrind |
feb 20
TUT 3: No tutorial
DUE: Paper critique #1 |
feb 23
LEC 6: Threads (slides)
Reading: Book sections 5.5 and 5.6 |
feb 24
REC 6: UNIX
Preparation: Unix paper |
feb 25
LEC 7: OS structure, Virtual Machines (slides)
Reading: Book section 5.8 |
feb 26
REC 7: Eraser
Preparation: Eraser
DUE: Hands-on Valgrind
Assigned: Hands-on MapReduce |
feb 27
TUT 4: Team-writing and collaboration (run by communication instructors)
Assigned: DP proposal (see also: DP description) |
mar 2
LEC 8: Performance (slides)
Reading: Book sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.4 |
mar 3
REC 8: MapReduce
Preparation: MapReduce paper |
mar 4
LEC 9: Intro to networking (slides)
Reading: Book sections 7.1 and 7.2 (book chapters 7-11 are online)
DUE: Send team list to TA
We assume that you have taken 6.02 and have the necessary background from the networking topics studied there. If not, or if you need a refresher, as background please read chapters 15-19 of the 6.02 book, which we've posted here. |
mar 5
REC 9: End-to-End arguments
Preparation: End-to-End
DUE: Hands-on MapReduce
Assigned: Hands-on traceroute |
mar 6
TUT 5: DP discussion (run by TAs)
DUE: Paper critique #2
ADD DATE |
mar 9
LEC 10: Routing and BGP
Reading: BGP tutorial through Section 3.2 |
mar 10
REC 10: RON Overlay Network
Preparation: RON paper |
mar 11
LEC 11: Transport layer
|
mar 12
REC 11: Canceled
DUE: Hands-on traceroute
Assigned: Hands-on TCP |
mar 13
TUT 6: Writing DP proposal (run by communication instructors)
|
mar 16
LEC 12: In-network resource management (slides)
|
mar 17
REC 12: Bufferbloat
Preparation: Bufferbloat |
mar 18
LEC 13: Wireless/BLE + DP questions
|
mar 19
REC 13: TCP for Data Centers
Preparation: TCP for Data Centers
DUE: Hands-on TCP |
mar 20
TUT 7: No tutorial
DUE: DP proposal |
mar 23
Spring break |
mar 24
Spring break |
mar 25
Spring break |
mar 26
Spring break |
mar 27
Spring break |
mar 30
LEC 14: Network Neutrality (slides)
|
mar 31
REC 14: Network Neutrality
Preparation: Approaches to Transparency |
apr 1
LEC 15: Reliability (slides)
Reading: Book sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 |
apr 2
REC 15: RAID
Preparation: RAID paper
Assigned: Hands-on Logging |
apr 3
QUIZ 1: 2:00pm (FAQ)
Last names A-K: in 26-100
Last names L-Z: in 50-340 |
apr 6
LEC 16: Intro to transactions (slides, notes on all-or-nothing disk sector)
Reading: Book sections 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2
Assigned: DP Presentation |
apr 7
REC 16: Distributed Storage
Preparation: GFS |
apr 8
LEC 17: Logging
Reading: Book section 9.3 |
apr 9
REC 17: LFS
Preparation: LFS paper
DUE: Hands-on Logging
Assigned: Hands-on DB |
apr 10
TUT 8: DP presentation and figures (run by communication instructors)
Assigned: Paper critique #3 |
apr 13
LEC 18: Isolation
Reading: Book sections 9.4 before 9.4.1, and 9.5
DP Presentations should be scheduled for this week or next |
apr 14
REC 18: DB Survey
Preparation: Concurrency Control and Recovery Paper |
apr 15
LEC 19: Distributed transactions
Reading: Book section 9.6 |
apr 16
REC 19: PNUTS
Preparation: PNUTS
DUE: Hands-on DB |
apr 17
TUT 9: Discussion on DP analysis/evaluation and common mistakes (run by TAs)
|
apr 20
Patriots day |
apr 21
Patriots day |
apr 22
LEC 20: Availability via Replication
|
apr 23
REC 20: Trusting trust
Preparation: Trusting trust
Assigned: Hands-on buffer overrun
DROP DATE |
apr 24
TUT 10: How to write a design report (run by communication instructors)
DUE: Paper critique #3
Assigned: DP Report |
apr 27
LEC 21: Security intro (slides)
Reading: Book section 11.1 |
apr 28
REC 21: Beyond Stack Smashing
Preparation: Beyond Stack Smashing |
apr 29
LEC 22: Authentication and passwords (slides)
Reading: Book section 11.2 |
apr 30
REC 22: Why Cryptosystems Fail
Preparation: Why Cryptosystems Fail
DUE: Hands-on buffer overrun
Assigned: Hands-on trust |
may 1
TUT 11: No tutorial
CI instructors will be holding office hours this week and next for help with the design report. |
may 4
LEC 23: Secure channels (slides)
Reading: Book sections 11.3, 11.4, and 11.5 |
may 5
REC 23: DNSSEC
Preparation: DNSSEC |
may 6
LEC 24: Network security and DDoS attacks (slides)
|
may 7
REC 24: Botnets
Preparation: Botnets
DUE: Hands-on trust |
may 8
TUT 12: No tutorial
DUE: DP Report |
may 11
LEC 25: Underground Web Technologies (slides)
|
may 12
REC 25: Bitcoin
Preparation: Bitcoin |
may 13
LEC 26: Guest Lecture by Daniel Weitzner: "Foundations of Internet Policy: How Internet technology and law meet, clash, but ultimately work out."
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may 14
REC 26: Security wrap-up
Preparation: The Night Watch
Last day of classes |
may 15 |
may 18
Final exam week |
may 19
Final exam week |
may 20
Final exam week |
may 21
QUIZ 2: 1:30pm (FAQ)
Johnson Ice Rink
Final exam week |
may 22
Final exam week |
