Welcome to the Web Page for CptS 464/564, Distributed Systems Concepts and Programming, Fall 2001.

• Syllabus (.pdf .htm ;updated November 26^th)
• Introductory Slides (1up, 4up) from August 27^th
• Paper “A Note on Distributed Computing” (testable for 564 only); handed out August 27^th
• Chapter 1 slides (1up, 4up), from August 29^th and September 5
• Middleware overview slides (1up, 4up) from September 5. Accompanying article on Middleware (not testable from “Middleware and Resource Management” and beyond).
• Homework #1 (.pdf, .doc), given September 5^th, due September 12^th
• The slides for the CORBA-I (September 10^th) and CORBA-II (September 12^th) will be available at TA David McKinnon’s web page by 8am the morning of the lecture.
• Project #1 (.pdf .doc .htm), given Sept 12^th and due Sept 26^th.
• Chapter 2 slides, first part (1up, 4up), from September 17^th to 19^th (approx).
• Chapter 2 slides, second part ( 1up, 4up).
• Paper “Time, Clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system”, (for 564 students only)
• Project #2 writeup ( .pdf), emailed to class; accompanying overview slides (1up, 4up).
• CORBA Hooks slide ( .pdf) --- Note a color hardcopy will be given Oct 1, so this is just for your reference or in case you lose it.
• Homework #2 ( .pdf, .doc), given October 3^rd, due October 15^th.
• Chapter 2 slides, third and final part (1up, 4up).
• Chapter 3 slides, first part (1up, 4up).
• Chapter 3 slides, second part ( 1up, 4up).
• Chapter 4 slides ( 1up, 4up)
• CORBA-III (Event Services, 31 Oct; 1-up, 4-up).
• Event sample code
• Project 3 writeup.
• Chapter 11 slides (1up, 4up).
• Chapter 12 slides (1up, 4up).
• CORBA Security Overview (1up, 4up)
• Project 4 Overview (1up, 4up)
• Project 4 Description: sent by email.
• Chapter 16 slides (1up, 4up).
• The Semantic Web talk slides (November 28) by Mike Dean, a Division Scientist for BBN Technologies. More background info for the curious is here. Also an overview of XML is here (.pdf, .html ).
• Homework #3 (.html, .pdf, .doc ;given 11/28/01, due 12/12/01).
• Distributed QoS slides ( 1up, 4up). Warning: they are huge (1MB)! Don’t start printing them 5 minutes before class start….
• Embedded distributed systems and middleware (Dec 10): slides ( 1up, 4up), background paper (.pdf; required only for 564 students), MicroQoSCORBA web page.
• Last lecture ( 1-up, 4-up), movie “Volunteers” at amazon.com

Prof. Bakken’s Office Hours: Monday 1:00-2:00, Wednesday 2:00-3:00 in EME 55, when not traveling or ill. Please email to make an appointment for other times than this, if you cannot make the normal office hours. His EECS email is not often checked from home in the evening and weekends, due to very slow webmail access, so if you think you need a very quick reply after business hours, also cc mailto:davebakken@pullman.com (i.e., also send to me normally at mailto:bakken@eecs.wsu.edu).