Course Calendar

We will release the Spring 2020 assignments as the semester progresses. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in the future may be missing or inaccurate.

All content on this website is subject to change prior to the start of the semester.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
jan 27	jan 28	jan 29	jan 30	jan 31 Reg day
feb 3 LEC 1: Enforced Modularity via Client/server Organization (slides) Reading: Book sections 1.1-1.5, and 4.1-4.3 First day of classes	feb 4 REC 1: We Did Nothing Wrong	feb 5 LEC 2: Naming (slides) Reading: Book sections 2.2, and 3.1 Assigned: Hands-on DNS	feb 6 REC 2: DNS	feb 7 TUT 1: Intro to 6.033 Communication Assigned: System critique #1
feb 10 LEC 3: Virtual memory (slides) Reading: Book sections 5.1, 5.3, and 5.4	feb 11 REC 3: UNIX DUE: Hands-on DNS Assigned: Hands-on UNIX	feb 12 LEC 4: Bounded buffers and locks (slides) Reading: Book section 5.2	feb 13 REC 4: UNIX	feb 14 TUT 2: Consensus and Critique
feb 17 President's day	feb 18 LEC 5: Threads (slides) Reading: Book sections 5.5 and 5.6 DUE: Hands-on UNIX	feb 19 LEC 6: OS structure, Virtual Machines (slides) Reading: Book section 5.8	feb 20 REC 5: Eraser	feb 21 TUT 3: DP discussion DUE: System critique #1 Assigned: DP preliminary report
feb 24 LEC 7: Performance (slides) Reading: Book sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.4	feb 25 REC 6: MapReduce DUE: Send team list to TA Assigned: Hands-on MapReduce	feb 26 LEC 8: Intro to networking (slides) Reading: Book section 7.2 (book chapters 7-11 are online)	feb 27 REC 7: Ethernet	feb 28 TUT 4: Writing the Critiques & Intro to Collaboration Assigned: System critique #2
mar 2 LEC 9: Routing (slides) Reading: Chapters 17-18 of the 6.02 notes	mar 3 REC 8: The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols DUE: Hands-on MapReduce Assigned: Hands-on Traceroute	mar 4 LEC 10: BGP (slides) Reading: BGP tutorial through Section 3.2	mar 5 REC 9: 4D	mar 6 TUT 5: Collaboration & Figures ADD DATE
mar 9 LEC 11: Transport layer (slides, video) Reading: Chapter 19 of the 6.02 notes Note that the 6.02 reading uses slightly different ACKs	mar 10 REC 10: DCTCP (Supplement)	mar 11 LEC 12: In-network resource management	mar 12 REC 11: End-to-end arguments in system design (Supplement)	mar 13 TUT 6: Canceled
mar 16 LEC 13: Canceled	mar 17 REC 12: Canceled	mar 18 LEC 14: Canceled	mar 19 REC 13: Canceled	mar 20
mar 23 Spring break	mar 24 Spring break	mar 25 Spring break	mar 26 Spring break	mar 27 Spring break
mar 30 LEC 15, 16: Reliability and Transactions REC 14: Distributed Storage TUT 7: Remote Collaboration DUE: System critique #2 DUE: Hands-on Traceroute	mar 31	apr 1	apr 2	apr 3 DUE: DP preliminary report Note that the DP page includes updated DPPR resources as of 3/25, in response to a tumultuous few weeks
apr 6 LEC 17: Atomicity via Logging REC 15: ZFS TUT 8: DP Presentation	apr 7 Assigned: Hands-on Logging	apr 8	apr 9 Quiz 1 will be released at noon on this day, and due at noon on 4/10.	apr 10 Assigned: DP Presentation
apr 13 Lec 18, 19: Isolation and Distributed Transactions REC 16: Consistency Guarantees TUT 9: No tutorial videochats, schedule your presentation rehearsal with your instructor	apr 14 DUE: Hands-on Logging Assigned: Hands-on DB	apr 15	apr 16	apr 17
apr 20 Patriots day	apr 21 Lec 20: Availability via Replication Rec 17: Raft TUT 10: Analysis and Evaluation DUE: Hands-on DB DROP DATE DP Presentations should be scheduled between 4/21 and 4/24	apr 22	apr 23	apr 24 Assigned: DP Report
apr 27 LEC 21, 22: Authentication and Passwords; Secure Channels Rec 18: DNSSEC TUT 11: Final DP Report WRAP instructors will be holding office hours this week and next for help with the design report.	apr 28	apr 29	apr 30	may 1
may 4 LEC 23, 24: Low-level Attacks; Network security and DDoS attacks Rec: 19: Meltdown	may 5	may 6	may 7	may 8 DUE: DP Report
may 11 LEC 25: Wrap-up Rec 20: Ethics	may 12 Last day of classes	may 13	may 14	may 15 Final exams
may 18 Quiz 2 will be released at 1:30pm EDT on this day. It is a three-hour timed quiz that will be available for 24 hours on Gradescope. Final exams	may 19 Final exams	may 20 Final exams	may 21	may 22