Temporal and Spatial Attributes

Local View

 TuTh 3:30 PM -- 4:45 PM, CSIC 1122

January 26, 2004---May 10, 2004

Information View

Text: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Edition by     Hennessy and Patterson (2nd edition will NOT be acceptable)

Extra resources: Class Webpage--old projects, other peoples' lecture notes

Handouts

Lectures

Project Specification: TBD

Quantitative View

Cumulative Final Exam : 40-45%

1  Midterm Exam:  25-30%

Best 3 quizzes out of 4 weekly quizzes : 20-25%

Project (Details TBD): 10-15%

Class Participation:  up to 5%

                    Qualitative View

The SAME  Content

The SAME Inherently Ambiguous Project Specification

The SAME Content-free Context-laden Lectures

The SAME Requirement that you READ the BOOKs

The SAME No-Double-Jeopardy Policies

The SAME  Mandatory Newsgroup Monitoring

MORE annoyingly and deceptively  simple/difficult problems

Weekly Reading Assignments and Problems, with solutions

Weekly Quizzes

One Nasty Midterm Exam

ONE Nasty, Cumulative Final

Important Dates

Quizzes

February 18

March 3

April 14

May 5

Midterm Exam

March 17

Final Exam

May 15 (Saturday) Cumulative Final Exam
    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM in CSIC 1122

Project Due Date:  April TBD

Hints for Success

Plan on spending at least twice as much time outside of class as in-class, most of it reading.

If you don't like my books, pick others that cover the same material.

Take advantage of on-line resources, especially old projects and other peoples' notes.

Read the newsgroup regularly and post ALL your project and homework queries there.

Keeping up with the reading will make the lectures more relevant.

Don't expect to use ONLY  Lecture notes to study--you MUST read.

Don't expect to use ONLY books to study--some lectures are unique.

Follow directions.