CIS 506 COURSE INFORMATION 2002 spring

Professor: Dr. Fred Thulin http://pluto.ksi.edu/~fthulin/

Office: Dean's Office Hours: 5:00-6:00 T-F & by appt.

Phone: 847.679.3135 Fax: 847.679.3166 email: fthulin@ksi.edu

Course notes: http://pluto.ksi.edu/~fthulin/CIS506/506notes.html

The class will meet Tuesdays 2-5 PM.

Text: Tanenbaum, A.S., Distributed Operating Systems. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-219908-4.

Reference: Galli, D.L., Distributed Operating Systems: Concepts and Practice. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN 0-13-079843-6

Coverage: Chapters 1-7; additional chapters if time permits.

Course requirements: There will be three quizzes, a final exam, three research paper reviews and a project. There will be no makeup exams or quizzes. These requirements will count the following approximate percentages toward the course grade:

quizzes: 25% (Feb. 5, Mar. 12, Apr. 16)

reviews: 25% (Due Feb. 12, Mar. 19, Apr. 22)

project: 15%

final exam: 35% (Apr. 30)

Grade cutoff points are A: 90%, B: 80%, C: 65%, D: 50%.

Academic Integrity: It is expected that each student submit only his or her own work for credit in the course. A violation may result in splitting a score, expulsion or a grade of F for all parties involved. See the handout Knowledge Systems Institute Policy on Academic Dishonesty.

Reviews: For each review assignment, read a research article listed in the text's bibliography (pp. 577-601) or one on similar subject matter and write a review of it. Your review should be about one page long; three-fourths should summarize the material and one fourth should be a critique. The review should be written using a text editor or word processor (e.g. Word) and be introduced (i.e. the citation should appear at the top of the page) with a formal citation of the form:

Tanenbaum, A.S., Kaashoek, M.F. & Bal, H.E.: Parallel programming using shared objects and broadcasting, IEEE Computer, v. 25, 1992.