SINGAPORE-MIT ALLIANCE (COMPUTER SCIENCE)

SMA5501 / MIT6.033 – Computer System Engineering

Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS)

 

Spring 2003 (updated: April 30, 2003)

Description

Topics on the engineering of computer software and hardware systems: techniques for controlling complexity; hard modularity; networks and distributed systems; atomicity and coordination of parallel activities; recovery and reliability; privacy of information; impact of computer systems on society. Case studies of working systems and outside reading in the current literature provide comparisons and contrasts. Two design projects.

 

Instructors

Assoc Professor Teo Yong Meng	Professor Larry Rudolph
S16, Room #04-07	Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Department of Computer Science (NUS)	Email: rudolph@lcs.mit.edu
Email: teoym AT comp.nus.edu.sg

 

Teaching Assistants

Ameya Virkar, Yu Bei	Chris Avrich
S16, Room #04-02A	MIT
Department of Computer Science (NUS)
Email: ameya@comp.nus.edu.sg             yubei@comp.nus.edu.sg	Email: cda@mit.edu

 

Course Schedule:

§       Scheduled Lecture Video Sessions: Mon and Wed, 0900-1000

§       Recitation: Tue and Thu, 1030-1130 (Teo), 1130-1230 (Larry) [Daylight saving: 0930-1030(Teo), 1030-1130 (Larry)]

§       Tutorial: Tue and Thu

§       Laboratory Sessions   

§       Consultation hours: 1400-1500 - Wed (Teo), Thu (Yu)

 

Assessment (no examination):  

§       3 Quizzes (1/3) - Quiz 1 (10-11am, Sat, 8 March), Quiz 2 (10-11am, Sat., 19 April), Quiz 3 ((10-11am, Sat, 24 May)

§       2 Design Projects (1/3) – DP2: Design Review Presentation

§       active class participation and weekly assignment (1/3)

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