ECE 428 / CS 425 / CSE 424:   Distributed Systems


Instructor: Nitin Vaidya
Office hours: Tuesday 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. or by appointment.
Office location: 458 Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)
Phone: 265-5414
E-mail: nhv@uiuc.edu

Prof. Yih-Chun Hu will also teach some lectures for this class.
Office hours: Thursday 2:00-3:00, room 464, Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)

Lectures:  Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Siebel Center room 1105


Teaching Assistant:
 

  • Charles Yang (cmyang2@uiuc.edu): Office hours: Wednesday 10-11 a.m. and Thursday 3:30-4:30 p.m., Siebel Center room 228
 


Course handout (PDF file)

Textbook: Distributes Systems: Concepts and Design, by Coulouris, Dollimore and Kindberg, Addison Wesley, 4th edition (3rd edition will suffice for the most part)
Click here for the web site for 4th edition errata
Click here for the web site for 3rd edition errata

Newsgroup: class.cs425

You may need to first visit http://tsg.cs.uiuc.edu/services/newsgroups/ to create an account. Also, the news server for this newsgroup is news.cs.uiuc.edu.		 Test Schedule:
  • The mid-term test for this course will be in class on October 20 (Thursday). Material covered through October 14 will be included for the mid-term. The mid-term test will be open-book open-notes.
  • Final examination will be 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 in the usual classroom for the course (that is, room 1105 Siebel Center). The exam will be open-book open-notes. The final examination will be comprehensive -- all the material covered during the semester, and associated readings, are included.


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