CS432: Old Announcements

• 16 Dec 2002: The grades for assignment 6 can be viewed using the course management system.
• 16 Dec 2002: Please bring a calculator for the final exam.
• 16 Dec 2002: Questions and solutions for questions from last year are now available here.
• 16 Dec 2002: Prof. Shanmugasundaram will have office hours from 2-3pm on Monday, December 16. There will be no review session, so this will be your best chance to get any questions answered.
• 13 Dec 2002: The final exam will be held in 255 Olin Hall from 3:00-5:30pm on December 17.
• 12 Dec 2002: Prof. Shanmugasundaram will have office hours from 11am-12 noon on Friday. Feel free to stop by if you have any questions about the course material.
• 12 Dec 2002: The solutions for the odd and even numbered exercises can now be downloaded using the course management system. Click on the "solutions" link for the final exam (no, they are not the solutions for the final exam!). I am removing the solutions link that was previous made available within the CS firewall.
• 5 Dec 2002: To help you prepare for the final exam, suggested book exercises have been posted on the course schedule. Here are also some questions from last year's exam that you may find useful.
• 11 Dec 2002: Solutions for the odd and even numbered exercises in the text book are available here. Important note: You have to be inside the Cornell CS firewall to access the solutions. Also, please do not distribute the solutions.
• 5 Dec 2002: The new (bug-free!) version of assignment 6 can now be downloaded using the course management system. The deadline for the assignment has been extended till 11:59pm on December 9. I apologize for the inconvenience caused by the buggy code - our assignments
  are in a state of continuous development, and unfortunate incidents like this happen every once in a while. See also the course newsgroup for a related posting.
• 2 Dec 2002: The deadline for assignment 6 has been extended till 11:59pm on December 7, so that you have a little extra time in this busy final week. Good luck!
• 2 Dec 2002: The solutions for assignment 5 can be downloaded using the course management system.
• 17 Nov 2002: Assignment 6 can now be downloaded using the course management system. This will be your last assignment.
• 17 Nov 2002: C. Mohan will be the CS colloquium speaker on November 21 (4:00-5:15pm in B17 Upson Hall). C. Mohan has made many contributions in the area of database transaction processing, and he was the principal inventor of the ARIES family of recovery algorithms (which you will be implementing for assignment 6). He will be talking about application-level caching, which is relevant to the material taught in CS432 and CS433. All of you are encouraged to attend his talk.
• Assignment 5 has been posted.
• The test cases for assignment 3 can now be downloaded using the course management system (click on solutions). Please run the test cases before requesting a regrade.
• Assignment 4 can now be downloaded using the course management system.
• The solutions to the mid-term exam will be discussed in class tomorrow. It will be helpful if you bring your copy of the mid-term exam to class.
• If you have regrade requests for midterm exam, please see Professor Shanmugasundaram either between 3:30-4:30pm on October 28, or between 11am-12noon on November 1. If neither of these times work for you, please send email to set up an appointment. The deadline for submitting regrade requests for the mid-term exam is November 1.
• If you have not yet picked up your mid-term exam, please see Andrea Cleveland (4105 Upson) between 3pm-4pm Monday-Friday.
• 19 Oct 2002: Please bring a calculator for the midterm exam. Some of the questions will require you to perform relatively complex calculations. Good luck with your preparation!
• 17 Oct 2002: Suggested book exercises for each chapter are now listed in the course schedule. Solving these exercises will help you prepare for the mid-term and final exams.
• 11 Oct 2002: Solutions for assignment 2 can now be downloaded using the course management system.
• 10 Oct 2002: Please see the course schedule for the date, time and location of the mid-term and final exams.
• 9 Oct 2002: If you have a conflicting mid-term exam scheduled on October 24 from 7:30-9:30pm, please contact the instructor immediately.
• 6 Oct 2002: The deadline for assignment 3 has been extended to 11:59pm on October 19.
• 30 Sep 2002: You can request regrades for assignment 1 starting tomorrow using the course management system. The deadline for requesting regrades is 11:59pm on October 7. See the course newsgroup for more details.
• 29 Sep 2002: The deadline for assignment 2 has been extended till 11:59pm on September 30 due to problems with the course management system.
• 28 Sep 2002: Jim Gray will be giving a talk titled "Can Databases Help Science?" in Olin Hall 255 during the CS432 class on October 2. Jim Gray is a recipient of the Turing Award (widely considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for Computer Science) for his contributions to database systems. All of you should plan on attending this talk, and please be on time. The material covered in this talk will be included in the syllabus for your mid-term and final exams.
• 27 Sep 2002: Assignment 3 can now be downloaded using the course management system.
• 25 Sep 2002: Answers to the odd-numbered exercises in the textbook can be found under course links. You are strongly encouraged to work through the exercises in the textbook so that you have a better grasp of the material covered in class. Working through the exercises will also help you prepare for the prelim and final examinations.
• 20 Sep 2002: Assignment 2 can now be downloaded using the course management system.
• 5 Sep 2002: CSUGLAB accounts have been created for all those registered for the course. You can set your password and get the lab door combination from the following URL: http://www2.csuglab.cornell.edu/userinfo.htm.
• 2 Sep 2002: Assignment 1 is now posted. Please log on to the course management system to download the assignment.
• 30 Aug 2002: Lecture slides are linked off the course schedule.
• 30 Aug 2002: If you have not yet turned in the academic integrity form, you need to do so during the next class (on 2 Sep 2002). Otherwise, you will be unable to download the first assignment.
• 28 Aug 2002: Welcome to CS432! There are two important things that you need to do right away. First, you need to complete the academic integrity form and hand it to the instructor after class; you will not be able to access the course management software system (for assignments, grades) if you do not hand in this form. Second, you need to familiarize yourself with the course policies. Contact the instructor or TAs if you have any questions or concerns.