Archived Announcements

• (11/23/09) Teams doing projects will be required to demonstrate their projects on Thursday, December 10th, between 4pm-6pm Each demo session will last 10-15 minutes. A list of available time slots is here. Please email me you preferred of time slots. Send me two or three choices so that I can resolve conflicts. Time slots will be assigned FCFS
• (11/18/09) No recitations next week.
• (11/17/09) I don't really like your textbook's coverage of security, and am instead going to cover a fun paper ("Smashing the stack for fun and profit") that popularized a form of attacks called buffer overflow exploits. I've posted a link to the paper.
• (11/6/09) Statistics on Homework 1: Average = 89; Standard deviation = 16.5; Maximum = 100; Minimum = 40. Homework 2 will be graded in about 1-2 weeks' time.
• (11/5/09) Your midterm exams have been graded. Maximum = 93, Minimum = 19, Average = 46.16, Std. deviation = 17.28. The distribution of scores is available here You'll get your answer sheets on Wednesday.
• (11/4/09) There will be no class on Monday 11/9/09. Midterm solutions discussed in class today will not be posted, so don't come asking later.
• (11/2/09) Third assignment now available on Sakai. The TA in charge of this assignment is Rezwana Karim. Please contact her if you have any questions about this homework.
• (10/28/09) Sample midterm uploaded to Sakai.
• (10/24/09) The final exam for the course is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, December 22nd from 12:00pm-3:00pm. Venue TBD.
• (10/20/09) Slight change in schedule: I am cancelling class tomorrow (October 21st); please continue to work on your homeworks. I will hold the mid-term review next Wednesday (October 28th). To compensate for tomorrow, we will instead have a lecture on Wednesday, November 11th (I had originally cancelled class on that date).
• (10/19/09) On popular demand, the midterm exam has been postponed to November 2nd.
• (10/14/09) Uploaded a research paper on log-structured file systems that we will cover in class next week. Look under Announcements on Sakai.
• (10/13/09) Some teams have randomly been chosen for demos of Homework 1. Please schedule an appointment with the TA (Bogdan) ASAP for your demos. All team members in each team are expected to be familiar with all parts of the project.
• (10/12/09) The mid-term exam will be held in class on October 28th. You will include all material covered in class (and the corresponding textbook chapters) until October 26th.
• (10/12/09) For students doing course projects, a course project proposal is due on October 19th. This proposal must be about 1-2 pages in length (single-spaced, in 11pt font), and must clearly describe the goals of the project, how you plan to achieve those goals, and what experiments you will conduct to evaluate whether you have succeeded. Proposals must be in PDF format, and must clearly state the names of the team members involved in the project. All proposals must be mailed to me (with a CC to the TAs) by 5:00pm on October 19, 2009.
• (10/5/09) Homework 2 is now available on Sakai. The TA in charge of this homework is Ana Paula Centeno. Please contact her if you have any questions about this homework.
• (9/28/09) We will have a relatively short class on Wednesday, so you can use the remaining time to finish Homework 1.
• (9/28/09) If you have any last-minute questions about Homework 1, please contact the TA, Bogdan Branzoi.
• (9/28/09) Office hours (for Vinod) cancelled on October 5th.
• (9/28/09) Those of you that are required to do projects should start thinking about topics (proposals are due on 19th October). As a rough guideline, the project must involve at least as much work as the second homework (which will be released next week). Students working on projects are required to meet me during my office hours on October 12th.
• (9/25/2009) Homework 1 is due on September 30 at 11:55pm (not 11:59pm). Please try to submit well ahead of this deadline. No extensions will be granted. If you don't upload by this time and miss the deadline, you will not get any points for Homework 1.
• (9/15/2009) For the second homework assignment, you will need accounts on VOSLab. We are planning to arrange one account per team on VOSLab. To get you accounts, we need information on team members. Please send an email with names of all team members to Ana Paula Centeno, who will be in charge of Homework 2. Please send only one email per team, and send this information by 11:59pm on September 21 with the tag [cs416-hw2] in the subject line of your email.
• (9/14/2009) There is a small mistake in the first homework. In Warshall's algorithm, we wrote t(i,j,k) = t(i,j,k-1) or (t(i,k,k-1) and t(j,k,k-1)). It should instead be t(i,j,k) = t(i,j,k-1) or (t(i,k,k-1) and t(k,j,k-1)).
• (9/14/2009) We were unable to reserve Core-A for recitation sessions. Recitations will be held at their regular locations (ARC-206 on Wednesdays and Hill-120 on Mondays). By popular request, recitations on Wednesday will start at 5:00pm instead of 5:15pm.
• (9/14/2009) Homework 1 has been released (on Sakai). It is due on September 30th at 11:59pm. Along with your code, please also submit a text file named "members.txt" in which you list the names of all team members.
• (9/13/2009) You have all been added to a Sakai group for this class. Please send me email if you have not been added for some reason.
• (9/2/2009) Go here to create an iLab account if you don't already have one.
• (9/1/2009) We will not have recitations this week. Recitations begin on the second day of class: Tuesday, 9/8/2009 (Monday schedule).
• (9/1/2009) We plan to combine the recitation section for the honors section (H1) with the other recitation sections. Students registered for section H1 can attend either the recitation for Section 01 or the one for Section 02, as per their convenience.
• (8/28/2009) Note that classes on Tuesday 9/8/09 will follow the Monday timetable. Our second class will therefore be on 9/8/09.
• (8/24/2009) Tentative schedule and grading policy posted. Note that honors students and graduate students will additionally be required to do a course project. This is a significant time investment and accounts for a significant fraction of the course grade, so please consider carefully whether you want to register for the honors section or register for this course for graduate-level credit.
• (6/10/2009) Preliminary version of class web page created.