Start of classes.

EECS4352/5442 Tuesday lecture location: CB 115

EECS4352/5442 Thursday lecture location: TEL 1004

EECS4352/5442 Friday lab location: LAS 1004A

All course related material, such as lecture notes, the list of topics and requirements for the Topic Study, lab assignments, Project requirements, etc., will be posted in the EECS4352 course directory on red: /cs/course/4352

Please note that no lab will be held this week.

EECS 4352/5442 Test 1 will be held on Thursday February 11, 2016, 11:30-13:00.

EECS 4352/5442 Test 2 will be held on Thursday March 31, 2016, 11:30-13:00.

Please note that EECS 4352/5442 labs will be offered at 11:30-13:00 on the following dates:

Friday Jan 22 : LAB1

Friday Jan 29 : LAB2

Friday Feb 12 : LAB3

Friday Mar 04 : LAB4

Friday Mar 18 : LAB5

CSE4352 Test 1 will be held on Thursday February 11, 2016, 11:30-13:00.

Test 1 will include: (a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Tuesday February 9; (b) Material in the files RT.1.pdf, RT.2.pdf, RT.3.pdf, and slides 1-14 of RT.4.pdf in the course directory /cs/course/4352.

It is possible that Test 1 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES, AND THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS. IF YOU HAD MISSED A LECTURE, MAKE SURE YOU OBTAIN A COPY OF THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS FROM A CLASSMATE, AS TEST 1 MAY INCLUDE QUESTIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

Please note that the deadline for reserving a topic is Friday February 12, 2016, 23:59.

If a topic is not reserved by the deadline of Friday February 12, 2016, 23:59, but reserved by Monday February 15, 2016, 23:59, then the mark for the topic study will be reduced by 1 grade point (for example, from B+ to B).

If a topic is not reserved by Monday February 15, 2016 23:59, but reserved by Friday February 19, 2016, 23:59, then the mark for the topic study will be reduced by 2 grade points (for example, from B+ to C+).

If a topic is not reserved by Friday February 19, 2016, 23:59, then the mark for the topic study will be zero (0).

A copy of the email from Marisa Sterling, Assistant Dean, Inclusivity and Diversity, Lassonde School of Engineering, regarding the community forum held on Jan. 22 in response to the misogynistic vandalism of a memorial painting in the Bergeron Centre shown in class today, has been posted in the course directory: /cs/course/4352/York-community-forum.pdf

Please note that the date for Lab 5 has been changed from March 11 to March 18, 2016.

Please that the EECS4352/5442 Project has been posted in the course directory /cs/course/4352/4352project_W16.pdf

A work by previous students Vincent Wu and Dan Han has been posted in the course directory /cs/course/4352/CSE4352_Project_VincentWu_DanHan.zip

Please read the warning posted in the course directory /cs/course/4352/ Warning_concerning_the_work_by_Vincent_Wu_and_Dan_Han.pdf, before reading the work by Vincent Wu and Dan Han.

In particular, please note that:

1. The requirements that the work by Vincent Wu and Dan Han were intended to satisfy, were DIFFERENT compared with the requirements of the EECS 4352/5442 Real-Time System Practice Winter 2016 Project as described in the document /cs/course/4352/4352project_W16.pdf.

2. The work by Vincent Wu and Dan Han is NOT intended to be an example of how to satisfactorily meet all the requirements of the EECS 4352/5442 Real-Time System Practice Winter 2016 Project as described in the document /cs/course/4352/4352project_W16.pdf.

The University has adopted Weather Emergency Procedures at the Keele and Glendon Campuses. Effective 7 am Thursday 24 March 2016 all day and evening classes have been cancelled and examinations postponed. University offices and Libraries are closed. http://site.info.yorku.ca/weather-status/

As a result, the EECS 4352/5442 lecture on Thursday March 24, 2016 has also been cancelled.

EECS4352/CSE5442 Test 2 will be held on Thursday March 31, 2016, 11:30-13:00, at TEL 1004.

Test 2 will include: (a) Material covered in the lectures from the beginning of the term up to and including the lecture on Tuesday March 29; (b) Material in the files RT.4.pdf, RTP.0.pdf, and RTP.0.1.pdf in the course directory /cs/course/4352.

It is possible that Test 2 may include true/false questions, questions that require short answers, questions that require calculations, questions that may require the drawing of diagrams, questions that require slightly longer answers, and other possible question formats.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE SLIDES, AND THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS. IF YOU HAD MISSED A LECTURE, MAKE SURE YOU OBTAIN A COPY OF THE NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS FROM A CLASSMATE, AS TEST 2 MAY INCLUDE QUESTIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE PROBLEMS FOR WHICH SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED IN CLASS.

PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THE MOST UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF THE LECTURE NOTES/SLIDES.

1. You are required to hand in both a hard copy and an electronic copy of all the EECS 4352 /CSE 5442 course work by Monday April 4, 2016, 23:59. (Note that this the last day to hand in term work for the Winter 2016 term)

2. You are required to use the utility “submit” to submit the electronic versions of all course work above to the directories:

/cs/course/4352/submit/topic

/cs/course/4352/submit/project

The electronic versions of the reports (topic study slides and report; and project report) should be in PDF format.

3. For the hard copies of all the EECS4352 / CSE5442 course work:

- either give it to the secretary in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Office to be put into my mailbox; or put it in the dropoff box for EECS4352 in Lassonde Building; or you may slip it under the door of my office Lassonde 3018 (in the latter case, you are responsible for making sure that the thickness of your hard copy allows it to be slipped under my office door).

The unofficial final grades for EECS 4352 Winter 2016 can be accessed by using your eecs account to login to red.cse.yorku.ca, then typing the following command:

courseInfo 4352 2015-16 W