Although some of the discussion guides are unfortunately brief, for most papers there are many more suggestions than can be reasonably explored in the time available for a single recitation class. The intent is that the instructor choose suggestions that are particularly familar, or that fit well the current framework of lectures, or are for some reason more timely. The list of readings is long, having accumulated over several decades. In a typical semester, only about a dozen papers would actually be assigned as readings. Note that the dates on the guides can be misleading as to their actual age; many of the guides were developed as hand-written notes years or even decades before 1995, when they started to be transcribed to web pages to make them accessible on-line.

Some of the discussion guides were initially transcribed as plain text files, occasionally assembled by cut and paste from e-mail, and they retain that appearance within HTML-formatted web pages. The primary consideration has not been polish, it has been to locate and make available as many materials as possible.

Only those recitation guides authored by Professor Saltzer appear here. Not included are some 25 recitation guides for which the primary author was another 6.033 instructor.

Suggestions for discussion of technical papers, listed in order by the last name of the first author of the paper.

Suggestions for discussion of other system-related topics.