CS514: Intermediate Computer Systems

Spring 2007: Professor Ken Birman

MW 1010-1125A; Hollister room 110 (We’re leaving you free on Thursday and Friday to reduce the disruption associated with travel for job interviews and the like).

Spring calendar information for 2007:

Instruction Begins	Monday	January 22
Spring Break Begins, 1:10 PM	Saturday	March 17
Instruction Resumes, 7:30 AM	Monday	March 26
Last Day of Classes	Saturday	May 5

Primary course TA: Vivek Vishnumurthy. Additional part-time help relating to specific technologies: Krzys Ostrowski (for QSM), Mahesh Balakrishnan (Ricochet), Tudor Marian (Tempest).

Course News (last updated May 3, 2007):

• New: See guidelines for the hw3 project report, and the demo.
• Trouble subscribing to the 514 newsgroup? Look here.
• Please note that the course project is quite different than in previous offerings! In fact the course itself is totally changed from the version taught in 2006.
• Please read about Assignment 3 as soon as possible. You will probably want to do some advance planning and not get caught starting it on the last day of the course – assignments 1 and 2 are actually really easy and are mostly preparation for assignment 3, which is a bigger project. Unlike for assignments 1 and 2, we are also allowing larger teams to form and work together on assignment 3. So, by planning ahead, you can also figure out who to team up with.
• Krzys will be teaching one week of classes, in February, to help people learn about the QSM technology recommended for use in doing assignment 3.

Course Overview and Organization.

Lecture times, teaching staff, office hours, prerequisites, assignments and grading policy.

Topic Outline.

High-level listing of topics to be covered along with recommended readings.

Slide Sets

Learning C# and Visual Studio

Programming Project.

· Assignment 1: An overlay network

· Assignment 2: Web service music kiosk

· Assignment 3: Using QSM to implement a Web 3.0 prototype