12/15:The final grades have been assigned. The grade distribution can be found here.
12/11:The final version of your project presentation
slides are due at 2:30pm on 12/13. You will be allowed to use your own
laptop only if your group is doing a demo. Refer to the projects page
for the schedule of presentations.
11/30:The Project Symposium will be held on 12/13 3:30pm at
KWII 201. Each group will make a 15 minute presentation on their
semester-long project.
11/21:The second midterm grades are now available. You can
pickup your exams from my office or in class on 11/27. The solution
and stats can be accessed here.
11/10:As requested by the students, a help session for the
second midterm will be held on 11/12 in McBryde 201 from 4 to 6pm.
10/26:The second midterm will be on 11/13 and will be based
on the material covered from 9/29 to 11/10.
10/26:You are encouraged to attend Dr. Reed's lecture on
10/30. The announcement can be found here.
10/18:All presenters should submit their final presentation
slides on Blackboard. I will not grade the versions submitted via
email.
10/13:Project 2 grades are now available on Blackboard.
10/12:The grades/solution to the first midterm is now available,
and can be accessed from here.
You can pickup your exams during my office hours today, or in class.
10/03: A review session for the class is scheduled on
10/10 7pm in KWII CRC #225.
10/03: The first midterm is scheduled for 10/11 in
class. Material covered till 9/27 is included. I have modified the
paper presentation schedule to accommodate the exam. A sample exam is available here.
9/19: The deadline for the term project proposals is 9/29. You
should email me the names of the persons in the team (preferably two),
the topic of the project, a brief description, and a time line for how
you will complete the project. You are encouraged to discuss your ideas
with me before the deadline.
9/10: The grades for Project 1 are now available. Please see blackboard for detailed feedback on your work. I will discuss some important issues in class on 9/11.
9/05:Project 2 is now
available. It is due on 9/19.
9/01: Starting next week, we will use the Blackboard
system for submitting the paper evaluations. As always, paper
evaluations are due before the start of the class.
8/31: Please make sure that you kill your UML processes by
typing 'halt' and properly exiting the UML environment. The lab
machines we are using are shared resources, and leaving UML running
when not in use makes the machines unusable for other
students. Moreover, it also corrupts your root_fs file and cause
unnecessary hassle.
8/29: The project submission process is changed. Now you will submit your project files using Blackboard. See the Project page for updated information
8/28: I have extended the Project 1 deadline by a day, to
9/4. This will give you an extra chance to ask me questions during my
Monday office hours.
8/25: For the projects, you have to login to a CS Linux
machine using a SSH client. For windows machines, you can obtain a SSH
client by searching the Internet for "putty download" and obtaining
putty.exe. Once you have a client, login to rlogin.cs.vt.edu with your
CS SLO login.
8/24: The reading list is now available. Review the list
and select a paper that you would like to present, and email me your
choice.
8/23:Project 1 is now
available. It is due on 9/3. Post any questions regarding the project to the class forum.
8/18: Note the change in class room, we now meet in McBryde 328 and not McBryde 566.
8/18: A tentative reading list is now available, and can be accessed from the 'Reading list' link above.
Some portions of the course page are only accessible
from computers with vt.edu addresses. If you have difficulty accessing
such pages from VTech machine, let me know.
Details of previous CS5204 offerings can be found here
