Some materials are adapted from the text book Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design by Coulouris, Dollimore, and Kindberg, a prior iteration of the course taught by Chris Brooks, and from Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet 3rd edition, copyright 2005 J.F Kurose and K.W. Ross, All Rights Reserved.

Tentative.  Subject to change.

Week 1 - 8/26

Topics: Overview	Reading: Chapters 1 & 2	Assignments Due: Sign up for the mailing list at: https://cs.usfca.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs682 Due 8/28/09

Week 2 - 8/31 - 9/2

Topics: Distributed Computing Models Dynamo	Reading: Chapters 4 & 5 Section 6.4 Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store	Assignments Due: Lab 1 - Inverted Index - Due 9/2

Week 3 - 9/9 

No class on Monday, 9/7

Topics:	Reading: A Technical Introduction to XML XML DTDs vs XML Schema Using W3C XML Schema	Assignments Due: Lab 2 - HTML - Due 9/9

Week 4 - 9/14 - 9/16

Topics: Java  and Threads Data Representation and XML	Reading: Section 13.1 Chapter 19 RESTful Web Services by Richardson and Ruby Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate Web Services/SOAP and CORBA http://www.restlet.org/	Assignments Due:

Week 5 - 9/21 - 9/23

Topics: Web Services and RESTlets XSLT 9/23 - Select * from Internet , Nagesh Susarla, Yahoo!	Reading:	Assignments Due: Lab 3 - XML - Due 9/21

Week 6 -  9/28 - 9/30

Topics: Time and Global States Google API	Reading: Chapter 11 Google Documents API	Assignments Due: Lab 4 - RESTlets - Due 9/28

Week 7 - 10/5 - 10/7

Topics: Time and Global States Google API Coordination	Reading: Chapter 12 Chapter 4 - Section 4.5	Assignments Due: Lab 5 -XSLT - Due 10/5

Week 8 - 10/14

No class on Monday, 10/12

Topics:	Reading: Chapter 15	Assignments Due: Lab 6 - Google API - Due 10/16

Week 9 - 10/19 - 10/21

Topics: Catch up Demos	Reading:	Assignments Due: Project 1 - Due 10/21

Week 10 - 10/26 - 10/28

Topics: Review Exam 1 - 10/28	Reading: Chapter 13 & 14	Assignments Due:

Week 11 - 11/2 - 11/4

Topics: Replication	Reading: Chapter 13 & 14 Peer-to-Peer Computing Looking Beyond the Legacy of Napster and Gnutella	Assignments Due:

Week 12 - 11/9 - 11/11

Topics: Transactions	Reading:	Assignments Due:

Week 13 - 11/16 - 11/18

Topics: P2P  CAN/Chord Demos	Reading: A Scalable Content-Addressable Network Taming the Torrent Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications	Assignments Due: Project 2 - Due 11/18

Week 14 - 11/23 -11/25

Topics: Taming the Torrent Project 3 Proposals/Discussion	Reading:	Assignments Due: Project 3 Proposal

Week 15 - 11/30 - 12/2

Topics: Review Exam 2 - 12/2	Reading:	Assignments Due:

Week 16 - 12/7 - 12/9

Topics: Project Discussion	Reading:	Assignments Due:
Project 3 - Due Dec. 17, 2009.  Demonstrations must be completed by Dec. 17 at noon.