Latest Announcements
- 04/12: Puddlestore released!
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- Due 04/19, please submit on Gradescope.
Overview
CSCI 1380 is an undergraduate course in distributed computer systems. We will explore the fundamental principles and practice underlying networked information systems. First we will cover basic distributed computing mechanisms (e.g., naming, replication, security, etc.) and enabling middleware technologies. We then discuss how these mechanisms and technologies fit together to realize distributed databases and file systems, web-based and mobile information systems.
Prerequisites: CSCI 0320, CSCI 0330, or consent of the instructor.
- Lecture time: Tu/Th 10:30-11:50
- Location: Metcalf Research AUD
If you are not registered for the class and would like to be put on the waitlist, then please fill out this form.
Course Staff
We'll be using Piazza for almost all course-related communication. You can mark questions as private or public. Private messages are seen by all course staff, see the collaboration policy for guidelines of how to choose. You can also use cs1380tas@lists.brown.edu to e-mail the course staff regarding administrative issues. For sensitive issues that you would not like to discuss with the entire course staff, you may email the instructors and head TAs at cs1380headtas@lists.brown.edu.
Instructor
| Name | Office | Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theo Benson | tab@cs.brown.edu | CIT 327 | Tuesdays 4-5 p.m., Wednesdays 11-12 p.m. |
Teaching Assistants
| Name | Office | Office Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTA: Sidd Karamcheti | skaramch@cs.brown.edu | CIT 205 | Thursday 1-3 p.m. |
| TA: Amedeo Alberio | aalberio@cs.brown.edu | CIT 205 | Friday 4-6 p.m. |
| TA: Abdulla Aldilaijan | aaldilai@cs.brown.edu | CIT 205 | Monday 6-8 p.m. |
| TA: Sandy Harvie | charvie@cs.brown.edu | CIT 205 | Sunday 6-8 p.m. |
| TA: Ben Shteinfeld | bshteinf@cs.brown.edu | CIT 205 | Wednesday 10 a.m.-12 p.m. |
| TA: Jared Siskin | jsiskin1@cs.brown.edu | CIT 205 | Tuesday 6-8 p.m. |
Course Policies
Collaboration Policy
The collaboration policy document is available online. You must read it, and then sign the collaboration policy form so that you can receive credit for the assignments.Incomplete Policy
Incompletes are granted only under exceptional circumstances (e.g. severe illness, death in the family, kidnapping, etc.; too heavy of a course load is not sufficient reason for an incomplete). Getting a dean to certify your reason for requesting an incomplete helps, but is not sufficient.
Late Policy
Students will be allowed a total of four late days to be used on homework and project assignments free of charge, but no more than three late days may be applied to any one assignment. Students will be penalized by a letter grade on the assignment for each day it is late.
