Matthew Curry

Email: curryml@cis.uab.edu

Office: CH 154A

Phone: 205-934-5840

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday  02:00 PM - 04:00 PM.

                      Other times by appointment only.

Course Session

Monday and Wednesday  5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Room CH 145 (come in side entrance)

Course Homepage

http://www.cis.uab.edu/cs433

Prerequisite

CS 303 Algorithms and Data Structures and CS 330 Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming

                 OR

Permission of Instructor

Description

Three hour lecture.

Overview of Operating Systems, Processes and Threads, Mutual Exclusion and Synchronization, Deadlock and Starvation, Memory Management, Virtual Memory, Scheduling, I/O Management and Disk Scheduling, and File Management.

Textbook

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 5/E by  William Stallings.
ISBN: 0-13-147954-7. Publisher: Prentice Hall. 2005

Grading Policy

                                CS 433              CS 533

Tests (2)                     40%                    30%

Homework (5-6)        40%                    40%

Final Exam                  20%                    20%

Term Paper                                            10%

Final Exam will be held on Wednesday, December 12, 4:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.

Students enrolled in CS 533 will have additional questions on homework and exams. 

Class Attendance

1.   Attendance is mandatory for this course. If you know you will be absent for a legitimate reason, let the instructor know. If you are sick bring a doctor's excuse or a written university excuse to resolve the absences. An absence has to be resolved as soon as possible - otherwise it will not be treated as an excused absence.

2.   Students auditing this course are expected to attend the lectures. Auditing students with more than three unexcused absences will receive a failing grade.

3.   There will be NO make-up exams. A student anticipating an excused absence from an exam should make arrangements in advance to sit for the exam at another time.

Academic Honesty

Students who plagiarize a computer program (or parts of a program), get others to write a program (or parts of a program), or are found cheating on a quiz/exam, will be reported for academic dishonesty. Anyone who is caught cheating will receive a 0 on a given test or assignment. If a second offense occurs, the student will receive an F in the class. This includes both the provider of the information as well as the receiver of the information. Any student who violates the university's academic honesty policy will be reported for academic discipline. All university and department policies related to students are included here by implication.

Add/Drop Policy

1.      A student can drop the course through August 29, 2007.

2.      A student can add the course through August 29, 2007.

3.      A student can withdraw with a "W" by October 22, 2007. (Undergraduate)

4.      A student can withdraw with a "W" by December 5, 2007. (Graduate)

5.      For more details about add/drop policies check with Registration/Academic Records.

E-mail

Every student will be required to use his/her official email address that is blazerid@uab.edu. New students must login and configure their email addresses. For more details on obtaining blazerid and configuring email please see: http://www.uab.edu/blazerid. All email communications will be made using this address. Additional instructions or announcements will be sent by e-mail, so check your mail often. Also check the course webpage for up-to-date information and announcements. Instructor will check email frequently, so e-mail is often the best way to contact the instructor.