Course Calendar

6.033 covers four units of technical content: operating systems, networking, distributed systems, and security. Lectures deliver the fundamental technical concepts; recitations show you how those concepts are applied to real systems. In tutorial, you'll learn communication skills to help you reason about systems, and describe and defend your own.

The calendar below includes lecture and recitation topics, along with due dates for all assignments. We also note when we expect various assignments to become available, and when we expect to deliver feedback (grades or otherwise) for each of assignment. The release dates for assignments and feedback are subject to small changes throughout the semester.

We will release the Spring 2021 assignments as the semester progresses. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in the future may be missing or inaccurate.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
feb 15 President's day	feb 16 REC 1: Introduction to 6.033 Recitations First day of classes	feb 17 LEC 1: Enforced Modularity via Client/server Organization	feb 18 REC 2: We Did Nothing Wrong	feb 19 TUT 1: Intro to 6.033 Communication Released: DP Specification
feb 22 LEC 2: Naming	feb 23 REC 3: DNS Assignment Available: Hands-on DNS	feb 24 LEC 3: Virtual memory	feb 25 REC 4: UNIX	feb 26 TUT 2: Consensus and Reasoning About Systems DUE: DP Team input
mar 1 LEC 4: Bounded buffers and locks	mar 2 REC 5: UNIX Assignment Available: Hands-on UNIX	mar 3 LEC 5: Threads DUE: Hands-on DNS	mar 4 REC 6: DP Discussion Released: DP Team Assignments (on Piazza)	mar 5 TUT 3: Reading for Systems Concepts Assignment Available: DP Prep Assignment
mar 8 Student Holiday	mar 9 LEC 6: OS structure, Virtual Machines	mar 10 LEC 7: Intro to networking and layering DUE: Hands-on UNIX Released: Hands-on DNS grades	mar 11 REC 7: Ethernet	mar 12 TUT 4: Collaboration and Collaborative Writing DUE: DP Prep Assignment Assignment Available: DP preliminary report (DPPR)
mar 15 LEC 8: Network Layer: Routing Released: Recitation Participation Check-in #1	mar 16 REC 8: Encapsulation	mar 17 LEC 9: BGP Assignment Available: Hands-on networking	mar 18 REC 9: Overlay Networks (RON)	mar 19 TUT 5: Visual Design, Figures, and Diagrams Released: Hands-on UNIX grades Released: Technical feedback on DP Prep assignment ADD DATE
mar 22 Student Holiday	mar 23 Student Holiday	mar 24 LEC 10: Transport Layer: TCP DUE: Hands-on networking	mar 25 REC 10: Performance, Measurement, and Evaluation (RON)	mar 26 TUT 6: Assembling the DPPR Released: WRAP feedback on DP Prep assignment
mar 29 LEC 11: In-network Resource Management	mar 30 REC 11: DCTCP DUE: DP Preliminary Report	mar 31 LEC 12: Application Layer	apr 1 REC 12: End-to-end Arguments	apr 2 TUT 7: DP Presentation Assignment Available: DP Presentation Assignment
apr 5 LEC 13: Canceled Released: Recitation Participation Check-in #2 Released: Hands-on networking grades	apr 6 REC 13: Canceled EXAM: Midterm	apr 7 LEC 14: Reliability	apr 8 REC 14: GFS	apr 9 TUT 8: Responding to Feedback Feedback Released: Technical feedback on DPPR
apr 12 LEC 15: Transactions Feedback Released: DP updates	apr 13 REC 15: MapReduce Released: Midterm grades Released: DPPR grades Assignment Available: Hands-on MapReduce	apr 14 LEC 16: Logging	apr 15 REC 16: ZFS	apr 16 TUT 9: Analysis and Evaluation
apr 19 Patriots day	apr 20 Student Holiday	apr 21 LEC 17: Isolation DP Presentations begin here, and run through 4/27 Assignment Available: Hands-on logging	apr 22 REC 17: Canceled DUE: Hands-on MapReduce	apr 23 TUT 10: Peer Review Assignment Available: DP Peer Review Assignment Available: DP Report
apr 26 LEC 18: Distributed Transactions	apr 27 REC 18: Consistency Guarantees This is the last day for DP Presentations Assignment Available: Hands-on databases	apr 28 LEC 19: Replication DUE: Hands-on logging Released: DP Presentation grades	apr 29 REC 19: Raft Drop Date	apr 30 TUT 11: Final DP Report Released: Recitation Participation Check-in #3 Released: Hands-on MapReduce grades
may 3 LEC 20: Intro to Security + Authentication	may 4 REC 20: Raft	may 5 LEC 21: Low-level attacks DUE: Hands-on databases	may 6 REC 21: Meltdown Released: Hands-on logging grades	may 7
may 10 LEC 22: Secure Channels	may 11 REC 22: DNSSEC DUE: DP Report	may 12 LEC 23: ToR	may 13 REC 23: Canceled	may 14 DUE: DP Peer Review
may 17 LEC 24: Network Attacks Released: Hands-on databases grades Released: Tutorial Participation grades	may 18 REC 24: Mirai	may 19 LEC 25: Wrap-up	may 20 Last day of classes	may 21
may 24 Released: Recitation Participation grades	may 25 EXAM: Final exam opens	may 26 EXAM: Final exam closes	may 27	may 28 Released: DP Final Report grades Released: Peer Review grades