Announcements

• 12/18 I sent out grades and entered the grades into Hokiespa. Everybody should have received feedback on their final presentation and their project/survey paper. Students doing projects should have received one attachment, students writing survey papers three attachments, which include summary feedback as well as more specific reviews of their survey papers from Wensi and myself. I will put a hardcopy of the survey papers in your mailboxes next week.

  I feel comfortable about the grades I assigned, shown below - I thought most everybody worked hard in this class, and as a result we saw many interesting projects and papers come out of it. I hope everybody took something away from this class, and I hope everybody enjoys their break!

  Grade distribution histogram.

• 12/13 Abhijit's presentation is at 11:00am in Torg 2050.

• 12/9 The University is closed until 1pm. I would like to move this morning's presentations to the afternoon as follows:

  1:00pm	Xiaojun + Vijay
  4:00pm	Vikram
  4:30pm	Matthew T

  All other times remain as scheduled. Updated final presentation schedule.

• 12/8 The final presentation schedule for Friday, Monday & Tuesday.

• 12/7 Please email a short title for your final presentation.

• 11/30 Update on deadlines: The final version of the survey paper is due by Thursday, Dec 8, 11:59pm. The presentations for those of you who are doing survey papers are on Friday, Dec 9. Each presentation slot is 30 minutes. The presentation time is 22 minutes to leave time for questions. Please rehearse your presentation to fit into this slot.

  For those of you doing projects, the final project report is due Tuesday, Dec 13, 11:59pm. The project reports need to be coherent and structured, but do not need to be polished. Presentations will be scheduled for Monday and Tuesday Dec 12 & 13. The rules for the presentation are the same. In addition, you should schedule a time for a demo with me individually, but not on Dec 9.

• 11/28 Office hours Dec 1st will be from 3:15pm to 4:15pm.

• 11/14 For those doing a survey paper: please format your paper according to the ACM Style Guidelines. For Latex users, any of the styles on that page are acceptable. (There's only one template for Word users.) Your paper should be no more than 8 pages, including all figures & bibliography. This is a maximum not a minimum requirement. Endnote users should select the Communications of the ACM output format for the bibliography.

• 11/14 I posted the schedule for Milestone 2 meetings.

• 11/11 There will be a Q&A session in preparation of the upcoming midterm on Nov 18. See midterm 2 announcement.

  11/4 We'll do a lecture today; the SPIN paper will be presented on Monday. The evaluation can be submitted until Monday.

• 10/30 I switched the Nooks (now Hari on 11/9) and the Metal paper (now Matthew on 11/16); see the reading list for details.

• 10/14 The Mondrix and Asbestos papers have been added to the reading list.

• 10/14 Midterm 1 will be held Monday, Oct 17. I'm out of town, Wensi will administer it. I added an announcement and a sample midterm to the documents page.

• 10/3 No class today & on Wednesday, 10/5. Work on getting your projects approved instead.

• 9/29 For those using Microsoft Word for their survey papers: Please use the following resources as starting points for instructions on how to make proper use of Word's outline view.
  How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in your Microsoft Word document
  How to save yourself hours by using Outline View properly

  I also insist that you use bibliographic software for your references - the University has a site license for EndNote.

• 9/27 No paper evaluation is required for this Wednesday (End 2 End paper). There is no class on Oct 3 and Oct 5. Also, there will be no office hours today.

• 9/19 Added sample survey paper to documents section.

• 9/6 Posted slides from last Friday are online as well Monday's lecture. I have added three URLs for additional reading for students interested in threading implementations. See Lectures.

• 9/2 I have posted the slides from Wednesday's talk. They are linked from the reading list. I have also included John's excellent demo as well as some additional Comments on Eraser.

• 8/29 Reminder: The paper evaluations are due before class. The limit is 1 page. You may submit either as hardcopy or electronically as a PDF file. Send your evaluation to xwensi-at-vt.edu.

• 8/23 The force-add policy has changed: Carol now requires that you pick up a force-add form from her office, and fill it out and have me sign it. I can sign the forms in class on Wednesday or you can bring them by during my office hours.

• 8/22 The reading list: is now online. The dates will be approximate. Please send me email with a first and second choice. I'm assigning papers as I receive preferences.

• Note changed room: We meet in MCB 230, not MCB 212.

• Material from previous year's offering.