Announcements

Posted here are announcements of importance to the entire class. The most recent announcements will be at the top of the page. Old announcements will be removed.
 


October 5 (11:45 AM):

The midterm examination will be held in class as scheduled on October 7, 1999. The outline of the exam is as follows:
 
 
 
 

Question
Points
Topic
1
10
 Concept Illustration
2
15
 Tuple Space
3
10
  Monitors
4
15
 Communicating Sequential Processes
5
15
 Vector Timestamps
6
15
 Causal Ordering of Messages
7
20
 Global State Recording Algorithm


September 17 (11:00 AM):

There will be a meeting in McBryde 655 at 5:00 PM on Monday, September 20 for those students who are in need of finding a partner for a programming project. Patrick, Wei, and I will be there to facilitate. If you have questions about a project idea you can also talk with me then as well.

Proposals for both programming projects and writing projects will be due by class on Thursday, September 23. You can send the proposals to me electronically (in text, PDF, or Postscript form) or on paper.


August 26 (3:10 PM):

An example of a solution to the readers/writers problem using monitors is now posted. This example is found in the textbook as Example 2.3, found on pages 22-24.


August 25 (2:30PM):

Some additional material was added to the descriptions of the programming project option for class term project. The additions are shown in red.