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Sayan Mitra
Lecturer
Email:mitras
Phone: 333-7824
Office: CSL 266

Jerry Chiang
Teaching Assistant
Email:chiang2
Office: CSL 443

Jason Haas
Teaching Assistant
Email:jjhaas2
Office: CSL 443

CS 425 / ECE 428 / CSE 424: Distributed Systems

Spring 2009

Course Essentials

Basic Information

Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Location: 1105 Siebel Center for Comp Sci
Units: 3
Mailing list: TBA

The newsgroup is for questions/discussion on homeworks and programming assignments. But, do not post solutions (code or write-up) to the newsgroup! Use email only when you cannot use the newsgroup, e.g., for urget/personal questions.

People



Instructor: Sayan Mitra
Office hours: Mon 3-4pm
Office hours location:CSL 266

TA: Jerry Chiang
Office hours: Mon 2-3pm
Office hours location:CSL 443

TA: Jason Haas
Office hours: Wed 2-3pm
Office hours location:CSL 443
Material



Main text
Authors: Coulouris, Dollimore, Kindberg

A good reference
Author: Ghosh
Additional reading
material such as research
papers will be handed out in
class as required.

Grading


Class participation is important. You are expected to have read reading material for the lecture (e.g., sections of the textbook, papers) before the lecture. Grading for undergraduate and graduate students will be separated. Grades will be assigned on a curve (relative grading).

Homeworks and Assignments

Homework sets will be given out approximately every other week. Homeworks will be due at the beginning of the class on the day of the deadline. Homework solutions are required to be typed. We will not accept handwritten solutions. Figures and equations may be drawn by hand.

Two programming assignments will be give out, each requireing roughly 4 weeks of effort. You may choose to work in groups of 2 students for each assignment. Detailed policies in the course overview handout.