Instructor
Michael Stonebraker
stonebraker@lcs.mit.edu
NE43-540 (inside NE43-501)

Office hours
Thursday 10am - 12noon

Final Exam schedule
Room: 36-153
Time: Thursday, May 23 1.30 - 4.30pm

Course Mailing list
6.893@mit.edu

News
3/21/2002: Assignments 3, 4 and term project posted.
3/14/2002: Final exam scheduled. There will be a three hour exam on Thursday May 23 from 1.30 to 4.30pm in room 36-153
3/9/2002: Expanded version of assignment 2 posted.
2/21/2002: There is no class on Thursday February 28

Handouts
2/7/2002 Course Information Topic Outline
2/13/2002 Reading assignment for the whole semester
2/14/2002 Writing Assignment 1 : Due March 1, 2002
2/14/2002 Writing Assignment 2 : Due March 22, 2002
3/21/2002 Writing Assignment 3 : Due April 13, 2002
3/21/2002 Writing Assignment 4 : Due April 27, 2002
3/21/2002 Term Project Assignment : Due May 17, 2002

Old News
2/21/2002: You should turn in homework to Dan Wilson in NE43-511. Homework is due by 5PM on the day specified on the assignment.
2/21/2002: Guest Lecturer: On March 14th, we will have Charlie Perkins as a guest speaker. He is a senior manager of database administrators at Fidelity in Boston. He will be talking about DBMS practices at Fidelity. This will be a "view from the trenches", so bring all your questions. He will begin at 2PM and talk until he runs out of questions, probably around 4PM.
2/9/2002: Send an email to om_p at mit.edu if you want to be included in the course mailing list 6.893@mit.edu. The course mailing list will be an official means of communication between the students and the instructor.
2/8/2002: The text Readings in Database Systems will probably be at Quantum by Thursday, February 14. Students might want to drop into the store or simply email june@quantumbk.com to reserve a copy of the book if they want it. That way, as soon as the books arrive, Quantum can email them individually and they will have a couple of days to come in and pick it up.