CS145 - Autumn 2009
Introduction to Databases

Please note that inquiries regarding the course should be sent to cs145@cs.stanford.edu, not to individual staff members.

Course Staff

Instructor: Jennifer Widom
Gates Building room 276 (mornings) and 422 (afternoons), phone 723-9745 (mornings) and 723-7690 (afternoons)
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 in Gates 276
Administrator: Marianne Siroker
Gates Building room 435, phone 723-0872

Teaching Assistants:

Daniel Gibson Gates B24A, 725-4385 Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30
Mike Kerzhner Gates B24B, 736-1816 (Mondays); Gates B26A, 723-6319 (Wednesdays) Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 1:00-2:30
Haider Razvi Gates B26B, 736-1817 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:30
Paul Salzman Gates B26B, 736-1817 Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 and Fridays 11:00-12:30
Karl Uhlig Gates B26B, 736-1817 Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-5:00, Thursdays 2:30-4:00

Office Hours Schedule-at-a-Glance

TA office hours will begin Tuesday Sept. 29

Day	Time	Who	Where	Phone
Mondays	11:00-12:00	Jennifer Widom	Gates 276	723-9745
Mondays	1:00-2:30	Mike Kerzhner	Gates B24B	736-1816
Mondays	3:30-5:00	Karl Uhlig	Gates B26B	736-1817
Tuesdays	11:00-12:30	Haider Razvi	Gates B26B	736-1817
Tuesdays	1:00-2:30	Daniel Gibson	Gates B24A	725-4385
Tuesdays	2:30-4:00	Paul Salzman	Gates B26B	736-1817
Wednesdays	11:00-12:00	Jennifer Widom	Gates 276	723-9745
Wednesdays	1:00-2:30	Mike Kerzhner	Gates B26A	723-6319
Thursdays	11:00-12:30	Haider Razvi	Gates B26B	736-1817
Thursdays	2:30-4:00	Karl Uhlig	Gates B26B	736-1817
Fridays	11:00-12:30	Paul Salzman	Gates B26B	736-1817
Fridays	1:15-2:05	Help session - most weeks	Skilling 193	SCPD broadcast

Lines of Communication

All inquiries regarding the course should be sent to cs145@cs.stanford.edu. This address is monitored continuously by the course staff. We cannot guarantee timely response of CS145-related messages sent directly to an individual staff member.
We will use the mailing list of enrolled students generated by Axess to convey messages to the entire class. We will assume that all important messages conveyed on this list are received and read by all students.
Students may optionally monitor and post to the class newsgroup: su.class.cs145. (Here are instructions for accessing Stanford newsgroups.) We encourage students with a question that may be of general interest to the class, or that may be answered by fellow students, to post their question to the newsgroup first. The newsgroup is monitored by the course staff.
To keep the volume of email manageable, we will maintain Frequently-Asked Question (FAQ) lists, linked to the most relevant Web pages. There will be a general FAQ, as well as a FAQ for each assignment and exam. Before sending an inquiry to cs145@cs or posting a news message, please be sure to review the appropriate FAQs.