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Course Calendar

We will release the Spring 2017 assignments as the semester progresses. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in the future may be missing or inaccurate.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
feb 6

Reg day		 feb 7
REC 1: Worse is Better

Assigned: Hands-on DNS

First day of classes		 feb 8
LEC 1: Coping with Complexity: Enforced Modularity via Client/server Organization (slides)

Reading: Book sections 1.1-1.5, and 4.1-4.3		 feb 9
REC 2: Therac-25 (Canceled due to snow)
 feb 10
TUT 1: What/How/Why Framework

Assigned: System critique #1
feb 13
LEC 2: Naming

Reading: Book sections 2.2, and 3.1		 feb 14
REC 3: DNS

Assigned: Hands-on UNIX		 feb 15
LEC 3: Virtual memory (slides)

Reading: Book sections 5.1, 5.3, and 5.4
DUE: Hands-on DNS		 feb 16
REC 4: UNIX
 feb 17
TUT 2: Stasis Theory and System Critiques
feb 20
President's day		 feb 21
LEC 4: Bounded buffers and locks (slides)

Reading: Book section 5.2
DUE: Hands-on UNIX
Assigned: Hands-on Valgrind		 feb 22
LEC 5: Threads (slides)

Reading: Book sections 5.5 and 5.6		 feb 23
REC 5: UNIX
 feb 24
TUT 3: DP discussion

DUE: System critique #1
Assigned: DP preliminary report (see also: DP materials)
feb 27
LEC 6: OS structure, Virtual Machines (slides)

Reading: Book section 5.8		 feb 28
REC 6: Eraser

DUE: Hands-on Valgrind
DUE: Send team list to TA
Assigned: Hands-on MapReduce		 mar 1
LEC 7: Performance (slides)

Reading: Book sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.4		 mar 2
REC 7: MapReduce
 mar 3
TUT 4: Team-writing and collaboration
mar 6
LEC 8: Intro to networking (slides)

Reading: Book section 7.2 (book chapters 7-11 are online)		 mar 7
REC 8: The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols

DUE: Hands-on MapReduce
Assigned: Hands-on traceroute		 mar 8
LEC 9: Routing and BGP (slides)

Reading: BGP tutorial through Section 3.2
Assigned: System critique #2		 mar 9
REC 9: RON
 mar 10
TUT 5: DP Preliminary Report/RFPs


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mar 13
LEC 10: Transport layer (slides) (AIMD explanation)

Reading: Chapter 19 of the 6.02 notes

Note that the 6.02 reading uses slightly different ACKs		 mar 14
REC 10: Canceled due to snow

Assigned: Hands-on TCP		 mar 15
LEC 11: In-network resource management (slides)

DUE: Hands-on traceroute		 mar 16
REC 11: Bufferbloat
 mar 17
TUT 6: Design Choices and Justifications

DUE: System critique #2
mar 20
LEC 12: Overcoming the Internet's architecture with P2P Networks (slides)
 mar 21
REC 12: DCTCP

DUE: Hands-on TCP		 mar 22
LEC 13: Wireless networks (slides)
 mar 23
REC 13: CDNs
 mar 24
TUT 7: No tutorial

DUE: DP preliminary report
mar 27
Spring break		 mar 28
Spring break		 mar 29
Spring break		 mar 30
Spring break		 mar 31
Spring break
apr 3
LEC 14: Reliability (slides)

Reading: Book sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3		 apr 4
REC 14: Distributed Storage
 apr 5
LEC 15: Transactions (Atomicity + Isolation) (slides)

Reading: Book sections 9.1, 9.2.1, and 9.2.2		 apr 6
REC 15: Canceled (prep for the quiz!)


QUIZ 1: 7:30pm-9:30pm; Location		 apr 7
TUT 8: DP presentation

Assigned: DP Presentation
apr 10
LEC 16: Atomicity via Logging (slides)

Reading: Book section 9.3		 apr 11
REC 16: LFS

Assigned: Hands-on Logging		 apr 12
LEC 17: Isolation (slides)

Reading: Book sections 9.4 before 9.4.1, and 9.5		 apr 13
REC 17: Databases
 apr 14
TUT 9: Figures
apr 17
Patriots day		 apr 18
Patriots day		 apr 19
LEC 18: Distributed transactions (slides)

Reading: Book section 9.6
DUE: Hands-on Logging
Assigned: Hands-on DB

DP Presentations should be scheduled between 4/19 and 4/25		 apr 20
REC 18: Consistency Guarantees
 apr 21
TUT 10: DP analysis/evaluation

Assigned: DP Report (rubric)
apr 24
LEC 19: Availability via Replication (slides)
 apr 25
REC 19: Raft
 apr 26
LEC 20: Security intro (slides)

Reading: Book section 11.1
DUE: Hands-on DB
Assigned: Hands-on buffer overrun		 apr 27
REC 20: Beyond Stack Smashing


DROP DATE		 apr 28
TUT 11: How to write a design report

Assigned: Peer Review
may 1
LEC 21: Authentication and passwords (slides)

Reading: Book section 11.2

CI instructors will be holding office hours this week and next for help with the design report and peer review.		 may 2
REC 21: Why Cryptosystems Fail
 may 3
LEC 22: Secure channels (slides)

Reading: Book sections 11.3, 11.4, and 11.5
DUE: Hands-on buffer overrun		 may 4
REC 22: DNSSEC
 may 5
TUT 12: How to do a Peer Review
may 8
LEC 23: Network security and DDoS attacks (slides)

DUE: DP Report (rubric)		 may 9
REC 23: Botnets
 may 10
LEC 24: Digital Currency (slides)
 may 11
REC 24: Blockstack
 may 12
TUT 13: No tutorial

DUE: Peer Review
may 15
LEC 25: Tor (slides)
 may 16
REC 25: Privacy and Policy
 may 17
LEC 26: The Importance of Policy (slides)

Reading: The Night Watch		 may 18
REC 26: Morality in Systems + DP wrap-up


Last day of classes		 may 19
may 22
QUIZ 2: 9:00am-11:00am, Johnson Ice Rink (Not Johnson Track)

Final exam week		 may 23

Final exam week		 may 24

Final exam week		 may 25

Final exam week		 may 26

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