Course Schedule

Being less concrete further out, the course scheduling is tentative and subject to changes.

Week 1	Mon, Jan 16 MLK day (no class) - Background survey (fill it before Wed's class)	Wed, Jan 18 Lec1-Introduction to Big Data Systems Assignment 0 out
Week 2	Mon, Jan 23 Lec2a-Basics of computer organization	Wed, Jan 25 Lec2b-Basics of operating systems I
Week 3	Mon, Jan 30 Lec2b-Basics of operating systems I	Wed, Feb 01 Assignment 0 Due at 11:00 am Lec2c-Basics of operating systems II Assignment 1 out
Week 4	Mon, Feb 06 Lec3a-Google File System (GFS)	Wed, Feb 08 Lec3b-Google MapReduce
Week 5	Mon, Feb 13 Lec4a-Spark RDD I	Wed, Feb 15 Lec4b-Spark RDD II
Week 6	Mon, Feb 20 Project introduction	Wed, Feb 22 Assignment 1 Due at 11:00 am Lec5a-Parallelism in Python Assignment 2 out	Fri, Feb 24 Project bidding Due at 11:00 am
Week 7	Mon, Feb 27 Midterm review	Wed, Mar 01 Midterm
Week 8	Mon, Mar 06 Spring Recess (no class)	Wed, Mar 08 Spring Recess (no class)
Week 9	Mon, Mar 13 Lec5b-Python Cylon (guest lecture)	Wed, Mar 15 Project open studio	Fri, Mar 17 Assignment 2 Due at 11:00 am
Week 10	Mon, Mar 20 Lec6-Graph computing (guest lecture)	Wed, Mar 22 Lec7a-Cloud computing and serverless computing	Fri, Mar 24 Project checkpoint 1 Due at 11:00 am
Week 11	Mon, Mar 27 Lec7b-Cloud-native data systems I	Wed, Mar 29 Lec7c-Cloud-native data systems II
Week 12	Mon, Apr 03 Lec8a-Reinforcement learning systems (Ray)	Wed, Apr 05 Lec8b-Federated learning systems (guest lecture)
Week 13	Mon, Apr 10 Lec9a-Database systems (Learned Index)	Wed, Apr 12 Lec10a-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo I)	Fri, Apr 14 Project checkpoint 2 Due at 11:00 am
Week 14	Mon, Apr 17 Lec10b-Cloud storage systems (AWS Dynamo II)	Wed, Apr 19 Lec11a-Datacenter computing (Alibaba)
Week 15	Mon, Apr 24 Work on project (class does not meet)	Wed, Apr 26 Project presentations
Week 16	Mon, May 01 Project presentations	Wed, May 03 Project everything Due at 11:59 pm