Computer Science 2500
Computer Organization

Instructor:	Dr. James D. Teresco, AE 124, 276-6348
Electronic mail:	terescoj AT cs.rpi.edu (best contact method)
Class Web:	[Link]
Class Hour:	Tuesday-Friday 10:00-11:50, Sage 3303
Office Hours:	Tuesday-Friday 1:30-3:00, by appointment
Teaching Assistants:	Bang Duc Le, Murat Semerci
TA Email:	bangdl and semerm, both @cs.rpi.edu
TA Hours:	Monday 4:00-6:00, AE 217; Thursday 4:00-6:00, MRC 330
Undergraduate TAs:	Robert Ferris, Andrew Zonenberg
Undergrad TA hours:	Monday 12-2 (AE Lounge), Tuesday 6-9 (Library 353A), Thursday 12-2 (AE Lounge)

Texts

The required text for the course is Computer Organization and Design, The Hardware/Software Interface, Fourth Edition (Elsevier, ISBN 9780123744937) by Patterson and Hennessy. This is available from the RPI Bookstore (and elsewhere). If you buy elsewhere, be sure to get the correct edition. It was just published in November.

You may also wish to purchase the optional text, The C Language Reference Manual, Fifth Edition by Harbison and Steele.

Course News

Related Information and Links

If you are connecting to the RPI CS Unix systems from an RPI Windows laptop, you should be able to use the Cygwin bash shell and run ssh from the command line like Unix/Mac users.
If you are unfamiliar with Unix, please see the page of hints and Unix tutorial.
Very brief but very useful references, courtesy of Duane Bailey at Williams College:
- C
- Unix
- Emacs
RPI CS Lab Resources:
- RPI CS Lab
Relevant, but hopefully not needed: The Dean of Students Academic Dishonesty Policy