Announcements

Look here for topical announcements about the course listed by date, most recent announcement first.

May 22

Course grades have been posted on the grading page.

April 11

No objections to the debate schedule having been voiced, it was finalized and moved to the projects page.

This week there will be guest lectures in class on both Monday and Wednesday.

March 17

Solicitation for needed input on your class and discussion group participation have been sent out by email. If you did not receive, it is indicative that you have not subscribed to the class mailing list (see below) and are missing important messages. The form is also available here.

March 16

Links to group home pages have added to the project page. Please set up your group homepage with a top-level list of names and links to the two projects. Also please post your first project outline here.

March 9

The class will be 50% done next Monday. Sometime next week we will grade the discussion forum homework and discussion for the first half, so this week is the time to catch up!

Feb 25

The schedule for the remainder of the semester has been posted. Minor changes are still possible.

Feb 19

There will be no class Wed Feb 24 because the MBA students are required to attend the Seachange Symposium. We urge all students to take advantage of this symposium, its contents are quite relevant to the class.

Feb 12

First project proposals have been received from all groups. They will be evaluated over the next day and you should receive feedback soon.

Feb 4

If you haven't subscribed to the class email list is224@sims, you are missing important email regarding project groups. The instructions for subscribing are given below.

Feb 3

On the assumption that there will be a few more drops and/or not everybody will attend every class, we decided to enroll all students on the waitlist. That should happen today.

Don't forget the reading assignments each week.

Jan 27

The book Networked Applications is now on sale at the ASUC Bookstore -- look in the Information Systems section, not Engineering or Business.

Jan 25

Don't forget to send email to the instructor with information necessary to form project groups (see Jan 15 below).

Don't forget to sign up for the class listserv email alias (see Jan 15 below).

The assignment has been posted for this week. Discussion and homework questions have been posted on the class discussion forum.

Jan 23

A discussion forum for the class has been created for the class on Delphi. Just click on the hyperlink on your left to enter the forum. The first time, you will have to sign up as a user of Delphi (if you are not already). Please be sure to choose a member name that is easily recognizable by your instructors, as a small part of your grade depends on your participation here. You can enter our private forum with the group password announced in class (or request it from the instructor).

Some notes for the class from H. Varian will be sold through Copy Central on Bancroft. They should be available Thursday or later.

The reader from D. Messerschmitt will be brought to class and distributed for free next week.

For those of you who wish to buy Networked Applications, I am told there are some copies for sale at Ned's Den on the south side of campus. Also, inventory has been shipped to the ASUC bookstore, but I am not sure if they have arrived yet or not.

Jan 21

(The following first posted Jan 20, and updated Jan 21.)

It looks like the course is oversubscribed for the size of the room. To alleviate this, please:

• No auditors or enrollments through UC Extension concurrent enrollment.
• Our current plan is to teach the course again in Sp00, so if this is a good option for you consider waiting. We can give you priority then.

For those of you who do not fall in the two categories above:

• Enroll only through the established numbers, BA 290D, EECS 201, or SIMS 224 or E298A-6. If you previously signed up for CS294-6 please see below.
• If you are signed up for EECS C201 or Eng298A-6, hang loose. There was some miscoordination between offices with all these X-listed numbers, so the enrollment limits were not set correctly. The adminnistrator is getting us a merged list of who signed up in what order in the event we have to pare down the enrollment.
• For students who would like to enroll in EECS C201 and aren't already:
  • The waitlist for EECS C201 has been increased from zero to 15 students. Please waitlist yourself. Also send email to D.G. Messerschmitt stating briefly why this is an important course for your program.
  • If you enrolled under CS 294 please drop that class and waitlist yourself in EE C201. Also please send email to the instructor indicating when you signed up for that other course and point to the fact you waitlisted (so we can give you appropriate priority). The 294 number is a holdover from last year and should have been eliminated.
• For students who would like to enroll in IS C224 and aren't already:
  • If you are a SIMS graduate student, you should be able to get a course control number through the SIMS office in 102 SH
  • If you are not a SIMS graduate student, send email to H.R. Varian stating why you would like to enroll.
• For students who would like to enroll in BA C290D and aren't already:
  • We understand that Haas handles priority here, and there are several phases of drop and add, the first being Saturday. Thus, we will just let Haas know how many MBA students can be accepted and let the entry to the course be handled internally. Give the current oversubscription, the number of MBA students will probably be limited to close to 15 (but no less than 15 for balance).

Our goal here is to maintain enrollment at the 40-49 level while maintaining reasonable disciplinary balance. I am sorry for the confusion -- we have some startup pains here.

I understand the book Networked Applications is available locally, but I am investigating where.

Jan 15

Please send email message to the instructor with the following enrollment information:

Subj: IS224 student

Name

Email address where you would like to receive information about this course

A very brief description of your background as it relates to this course (the purpose of this if for the formation of project groups that mix perspectives)

If you have done this, but later decide not to take this course please inform the instructor.

Please register for the class email list, so that you can receive any urgent messages about the course. Here are the instructions:

Send an e-mail message to Majordomo@sims.berkeley.edu with the phrase "subscribe is224" in the body of the message (Leave the Subject line blank.) A welcome message from Majordomo should arrive in your e-mail inbox.

You may unscubscribe by a similar proceedure should you decide later to not take the course.

Obtain the textbook(s):

You should purchase the textbook Information Rules.

The textbook Networked Applications is optional: The most important part of this book for this course is Chapter 5 This book is currently being expanded into a textbook, and copies of the longer and updated manuscript version of Chapter 5 will be sold at Copy Central. Other chapters and sections in Networked Applications will be assigned to help you understand concepts and technologies that are a part of this course, such as infrastructure layering, Java, CORBA, etc. If you feel sufficiently knowledgeable about these already, you may not have to buy Networked Applications.