CSE 451: Operating Systems, Autumn 2007
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Lectures: MWF 11:30-12:20 EEB 037
Section AA: Thurs 1:30-2:20 MGH 295
Section AB: Thurs 2:30-3:20 MGH 295


Who Office Hours
Brian Bershad, Instructor
bershad at cs.washington.edu

Monday, 12:30-1:20 or by appointment
CSE 562

Aziel Epilepsia, TA
aziel at cs.washington.edu

T 1:00 - 3:30 or by appointment
CSE 002

Marissa Rodenburg , TA
rodenm at cs.washington.edu

M 2:30 - 3:30
Th 11:00 - 12:00 or by appointment
CSE 002
(If you would like to meet with me outside the lab, email me and we'll set up a time/place.)


Announcements
Sun 12/9/07 The final exam is Wednesday Dec 12th 2:30 - 4:20pm. Bring a blue book!
Wed 11/14/07 Midterm solutions and the distribution are up. Click the sidebar link Midterm and Final to see it.
Wed 11/7/07 Project 3 due date corrected: It's due Monday November 19.

HW6 is posted, due Monday November 12.
Mon 11/5/07 Project 3 is posted, due Friday November 16.
Mon 10/22/07 The midterm is Friday October 26
Wed 10/3/07 Homework 2 is posted. HW2 is due Monday 10/8/07.

Project 1 is coming soon...make sure you've got a group and you've notified Marissa of the member's names and usernames.

FOR EACH LECTURE - Please email Prof. Bershad your "What is the point of the most recent lecture?" notes by the end of the day of the most recent lecture.

      Example:
      Subject: POINT OF MOST RECENT LECTURE 11/2/07
            The point was...
Mon 10/1/07 Lecture and Sections notes are online now.

Course Email - You should be receiving email on the cse451 list by now. If you haven't, sign up to use course email.

Project Groups - Form groups of 3 BY FRIDAY and email Marissa with your group member's names and cs usernames.

Textbooks Required Operating System Concepts (7th Edition), Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, ISBN 0-471-69466-5.

Required, read it online The Linux Kernel, David Rusling.
A locally stored copy is kept here.  No attempt will be made to keep the local copy synch'ed with the official copy.

Strongly encouraged Running Linux (4th Edition), Welsh et al., ISBN 0-596-00272-6.
Unless you are already running a Linux system on a personal machine (and maybe even then) I highly recommend you get this book. Available online through the UW Libraries here.

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