Carnegie Mellon Communications, Organizations & Technology Course Organization Syllabus Prithvi N. Rao H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon Agenda  Instructor Information  Cheating Policy  Objectives  Syllabus  Textbooks  Course Overview

Carnegie Mellon Instructor  Prithvi N. Rao  2105 Hamburg Hall Electronic Mail  Telephone:  (412) (h) Office Hours Discuss in class  Send to set up meetings at other times  Course web page to be announced (notes, other related documents, links)

Carnegie Mellon Cheating  CMU Student Handbook Describes Campus Cheating Policy  Instructors must specify cheating policy for each course. In this Course: You cheat if you represent someone else's work as your own.  Each document, presentation, code fragment, etc. should show the name(s) of the author(s) and acknowledge contributions from others.  Let's not have to mention the subject again.

Carnegie Mellon Objectives  Understand the essential characteristics of Networks  Understand their relationship on Management Infrastructure  Introduce the most common distributed object enabling  Technologies (CORBA, DCOM, RMI)  Present Examples of the use of these technologies  Understand through Essays and Case Studies the use of networks and distributed software infrastructure in mainstream industries (Financial, Medical, Telecommunication, etc.).  Present networking technologies for WAN, Wireless, Voice etc.

Carnegie Mellon Course Pattern  Tuesday evening class lecture  Additional classes can be held if there is interest  Homework assignments due Tuesday one week after it is assigned unless stated otherwise. No Late assignments accepted this includes essays.  Discussion and evaluation of solutions to other problems Essays 25% each (1 essay;due date is announced on handout).  Homework 10% each (3 homework assignments in total)  Midterm exam (20 %) yet to be announced.  Final exam (25%) yet to be announced

Carnegie Mellon Grading Policy  A+: > 95  A: 90 – 95  A- 85 – 90  B+: 80 – 85  B: 75 – 80  B-: 70 – 75

Carnegie Mellon Guidelines for Essays  The essay question must conform to the following: a) Single spaced b) Five pages maximum in length, and four pages minimum c) Verifiable references must be attached (part of the 5 pages). d) Must have a “discussion section”. This is where you must inject your own views on the topic. There should be very little (if any) opinion stated that is not yours. e) Discussion section must be one page.

Carnegie Mellon Guidelines for Essays  Clearly state the objective of the essay - what topic are you selecting and why? - what will the reader gain from reading this paper?  Present the background for the topic - why is this topic important? - what is the main issue you are addressing in this topic?  Present evidence - give references for your sources  Discussion - present your own thoughts and support your ideas with evidence from what you have read.

Carnegie Mellon Syllabus  Week 1 Course Organization, Introduction  Week 2 Evolution of PC-LANS and Networks and Network Data  Week 3 Classification and Standards  Week 4 Network Components Cabling and Design  Week 5 Network Topology and Internetworking  Week 6 CORBA

Carnegie Mellon Syllabus  Week 7 Guest Lecture 1  Week 8 CORBA  Week 9 Internetworking Networks and Management Tools  Week 10 DCOM  Week 11 Guest Lecture 2  Week 12 Remote Method Invocation  Week 13 Course Summary

Carnegie Mellon Textbook  Textbook Business Data Communications (Third Edition) William Stallings and Richard van Slyke ISBN 0 – 13 – x No book for CORBA/DCOM and RMI.