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Past Announcements (Fall 2015)

• 11/28 HW5 Emails re grading of HW5 (programming) have been sent out; all grading is now complete. If you did not receive an email, let me know as soon as possible.
• 11/23 HW4 and HW5 All email received through 24Nov, 00:03 has been acknowledged.
• 11/20 Final Exam (Scheduled by the Registrar) According to the Registrar (click on link below) the final is scheduled for Friday 18 December starting at 8:30 in the morning. Location is CKB 341. The exam duration is, per Syllabus, 2 hours (plus time to handout and collect the exam) in the 2:30 hour slot allocated for us. For other logistical information see the Syllabus (Handout 1). For up- to-date information and to confirm this click on the Registrar's page Registrar's Final Exam Schedule,
• 11/10 Paper Presentation (HW7) As of this writing, a list of the papers already scheduled for presentation can be found through link L0 (Preliminary Schedule for Paper Presentations) in Section C. There is room for one or two more presentations for the last day of classes. If you plan to present a paper, let me know of it no later than Mon Nov 16. A schedule will be posted by Mon Nov 23. With the exception of one or two more requests, all other new requests will be scheduled for Nov 30.
• 11/04 Deadline Clarification Homework 4 (as stated on its first page) has a new deadline which is Monday November 23, 2015. That same date is also the new deadline for Homework 5 for those who asked for an extension during class last Monday (Nov 2). The Homework 6 due date WILL not CHANGE. Nor will the Homework 7 date as the presentations will take place around the last two weeks of classes! For those of you intereseted in doing Homework 7, be alerted about incoming deadlines as stated there! Moreover the syllabus information is static and will not change nor reflect those aforementioned changes: the HTML or the PDF document reflects what was posted or handed out during the FIRST DAY of CLASSES.
• 11/02 HW4 Typo Somewhere in the last problem there is a reference to an Add server; it is supposed to be an ad server, as in advertising server. Moreover for that problem the data (server configuration 64GiB,2x10TiB disks are 2015 configurations). The reference to Google@2003 refers to the type of servers used at that time.
• 10/30 Exam 1 The midterm has been graded and will be returned on Mon 2 November. Exam statistics are available in section C.3. Moreover some Letter-grade guidance is provided based on HW1, HW2, HW3 and Exam1. (The total number of points is 533 out of 1000.) Note that if you did not turn in an assignment, you need to substitute the missing points accordingly.
• 10/23 HW3 solutions are available.
• 10/23 HW3 solutions are available.
• 10/19 HW3 All homeworks received through 02:29 on Tue Oct 20 have been acknowledged.
• 10/16 HW2 solutions are available. Solutions for HW3 (not HW2) will be posted late Thursday October 22 so that you have all three homework solutions before the weekend of the midterm exam.
• 10/15 Reading for Midterm of Oct 26 It will cover material from the book/subject note equivalent to the ones covered in Subject 1,2, 3 and 4 (pages 1-10 inclusive, page 17-21 inclusive), HW1, HW2, HW3 and their solutions. The paper on Google's search engine architecture is also included (part of Subject 3).
• 10/15 HW2 solutions will be posted sometime today/tonight Thursday.
• 10/12 HW2 All homeworks received through 00:04 on Tue Oct 13 have been acknowledged.
• 10/05 HW3 is available for download in Section B.
• 10/02 HW1 solutions would be posted late Monday (after class).
• 09/25 Subject 2 addendum An addendum that expands on the example of page 19 has been uploaded.
• 09/17 HW2 The second homework would be posted in Section B ahead of schedule so that it will give you more time to work on it. (Due date is Oct 12.)
• 09/17 Subjects 2 and 3 Both subjects are available in Section C (protected area) of the course web-page.
• 09/11 HW1 The first homework has been posted in Section B along with a template html file; a form is to be used to submit online information related to HW1.
• 08/28 Important A sign-up list will be circulated during the first class sometime after the break. It is imperative that you complete it by writing last-name, first-name and sign it. It has to do with the following http://www.njit.edu/registrar/general/Verification_of_Presence.php NJIT requirement
• 08/25 Second Tuesday of the Semester (i.e Sep 8) Note that according to the official calendar, NJIT follows a Monday schedule on the second Tuesday of the semester. Thus the first day of this Monday class is Tuesday Sep 8 !
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