Brief Schedule for CS 446 Fall 1997-1998
(updated Sep.29 1997)
1. Sept.24 Introduction, objectives. [Gio Wiederhold]
DARPA Frameworks concepts [David Luckham].
2. Sept.29 Problems with current software practice. Mega programming. [Wiederhold]
3. Oct.1 Architectural concepts and Architecture Description languages [Luckham].
4. week of Oct.6 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
5. Oct.8 Rapide system introduction [Kenney] [Gio, David out]
6. week of Oct.13 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
7. Oct.15 Software Engineering Paradigms [Burback]
Waterfall, Spiral, Sluice. [Gio, David out]
8. week of Oct.20 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
9. Oct.22
Neomas: the complexity of software and DADL -- a
Distributed Architecture Description Language [Burback].
[Gio, David out]
10. week of Oct.27 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
11. Oct.29 Stanford Administrative Computing: [Glen Mueller, ex-CIO, Burback host]
12. week of Nov.3 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
13. Nov.5 Object and Mediated Architectures. Penguin project [Wiederhold]
14. week of Nov.10 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
15. Nov.12
Computer Industry Study [Barr and Tessler].
16. week of Nov.17 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
17. Nov.19 Standards, and IP (Copyrights, Patents) [Wiederhold].
18. week of Nov.24 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
19. Nov.26 The year 2000 problem [Wiederhold].
20. week of Dec.1 meeting with research project, individually scheduled
21. Dec.3 Student presentations:
Discussion: Experience with project courses, what should
a Software course sequence at Stanford cover. [Gio out]
22. Dec.5 Final reports due. No final exam.