Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 597a
Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Parallel Architecture and Programming

J.P. Singh

What's New?

Fall 1999

Friday 10/29: Guest lecture: Dr Mary Fernandez

Dr Fernandez, an alumna of our graduate program, will give a lecture on web site content and structure management using database technology, including handling multiple sources of data. She is at AT&T Research Labs, and is doing some very interesting work in this area. You can read about her work on the Strudel system.

Friday 10/15: Guest lecture: Dr Andrew Erlichson

Dr Erlichson will give a lecture on building database-backed web sites. He got his PhD degree from Stanford in computer systems, and is currently working at a startup called Flashbase that he founded. FlashBase provides easy-to-use databases on the web.

Friday 10/8: Agenda for the class

Shan will present some applications, Minwen will present some infrastructure design from her research, and we will have a project discussion.

Thursday 9/30: Special session from 10-11 with Dr Udi Manber

Udi Manber, Chief Scientist of Yahoo!, is our departemental colloquim speaker on Wednesday. He has agreed to have a Q&A and general chat session for our class (and for all interested grad students) on Thursday at 10. Please attend his talk on Wednesday, ready yourself with questions, and come to the Thursday morning session.

Monday 9/27: Class today at 3 in Room 402

Today we'll talk a bit about basics and present project ideas.

Friday 9/24: Today's class postponed to Monday at 3

JP is unwell so today's class is postponed to Monday at 3. Only for this time. In Room 402, which is where classes will be held from now on.

On Monday, several of use will come prepared with services or infrastructure projects to present and discuss. So it will be an important class. If you have ideas, please bring them with you. The class after that will be next Friday as usual.

In the meantime, you may have noticed that there are a bunch of papers now on the class web site. Please start by reading the papers from Berkeley, especially the first and last papers in the Services category and the Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services paper from the Infrastructure category, and come to class ready to discuss. They're pretty easy reading.

People who came to class last Friday or are interested in the class but have not responded to my earlier email, please do so today. Please let me know in the email if you plan to take the class and do a project (whether or not we will admit non-project people is not yet decided, but let me know if you fall into that category).


Please note that the class will be held on Fridays at 3 pm, and the new room is 402.


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