CS 425/ECE 428 Distributed Systems  

Spring 2014


Instructor
: Nitin Vaidya

Office hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:30 a.m. or by appointment
Office location: 458 Coordinated Science Lab (CSL)
Phone: 217-265-5414
E-mail: nhv@illinois.edu


Teaching Assistants:

  • Le Xu (lexu1@illinois.edu).
    Thursday 12:00-2:00 and Friday 1:00-2:00 in 0207 Siebel Center


  • Wenjia Zhou (zhou56@illinois.edu).
    Office hours: Monday 10:00-12:00 and Thursday 11:00-12:00 in 0207 Siebel center

Lectures:  Tuesday-Thursday 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. in Room 0216 Siebel Center




  • Mid-term exam I: Scheduled in the evening on March 3, 2014 in room 1404 Siebel Center, starting at 7:00 p.m. (duration 90 minutes). Material required for mid-term exam I includes all the topics and all the required readings for lectures through February 21, 2014, as listed on the Lecture Summary and Readings page at http://courses.engr.illinois.edu/CS425/lectures.html. The mid-term exam will be closed-book closed-notes. Please bring a photo ID to each exam. We will provide a copy of this handout along with the mid-term exam.
    A copy of the exam and partial solutions

  • Mid-term exam II: Scheduled in the evening on April 10, 2014 in room 1404 Siebel Center starting at 7:00 p.m. (duration 90 minutes). Material required for mid-term exam II includes all the topics and all the required readings listed on Lecture Summary and Readings page for lectures held between February 10, 2014 and March 21, 2014. The mid-term exam will be closed-book closed-notes, but you will be provided a handout that includes material from the handout provided for the first exam, and few additional slides. Please bring a photo ID to each exam.

    Conflict mid-term exam II is scheduled during 12:00 - 1:30 on April 11 (Friday) in room 141 Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL).

  • Final examination: 8:00 - 11:00 a.m. on, Wednesday, May 14, 2014 (in two different locations -- room 0216 Siebel and 1310 DCL). Students signed up for this class as CS 425 should go to room 0216 Siebel. Students signed up for this class as ECE 428 should go to room 1310 DCL. The final exam will be comprehensive. The final exam will be closed-book closed-notes, but you will be provided the handout that was also provided for mid-term II. If you have any conflicts with the final exam, please send a mail to Nitin Vaidya describing the conflict. For the UIUC policy on final examination conflicts, please click here. Please bring a photo ID to each exam.

    The final exam time/date is based on the Spring 2014 Final Exam Schedule.

    CONFLICT final exam: Thursday, May 15, 2014 during 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. in room 459 Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL). Students who want to take the conflict final exam should contact the instructor by May 9, 2014.

  • Term paper and presentation for (graduate) students registered for 4-hours

  • Homeworks and Programming Assignments