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Matt Bishop Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences Phone: +1 (530) 752-8060 Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu |
Version of October 14, 2019 at 1:34PM
Matt Bishop
Office Hours: MWF 2:00pm–3:00pm
Phone: (530) 752-8060
Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences
Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu
Web page: http://seclab.cs.ucdavisedu/~bishop
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MWF 9:00am–9:50am in 212 Wellman
| Section | Times | Room | TA |
|---|---|---|---|
| A01 | Th 5:10pm–6:00pm | 1128 Hart | to be arranged |
| A02 | M 1:10pm–2:00pm | 105 Wellman | to be arranged |
Introduce principles, mechanisms, and implementations of computer security; learn how attacks work, how to defend against them, and how to design systems to withstand them
Some goals we hope you achieve:
The prerequisites for this course are ECS 150, Operating Systems, and ECS 152A, Computer Networks. Students who have not taken these courses are at a serious disadvantage in this class, and will be dropped unless the instructor approves them taking the class. To make your case, please fill out the missing prerequisite request.\footnote{It’s on https://photorosters.ucdavis.edu/prerequisites/.} Explain what experience you have in the subject of the prerequisite you are missing.
The class web site is on Canvas. To access it, go to http://canvas.ucdavis.edu and log in using your campus login and password. Then go to ECS 153 in your schedule. Announcements, assignments, handouts, and grades will be posted there, and you must submit any assignments there. The alternate web site, http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/ecs153-2019-01 has everything except grades, and you cannot submit work there.
The department policy on issuing PTAs is available at http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/blog/pta-policy/. If you need a PTA, please read that page, and follow the instructions there.
Midterm: Friday, November 1, in class
Final: Wednesday, December 11 at 10:30am–12:30pm
These will be closed book and closed notes exams. No early or late exam will be given; if you miss an exam for medical reasons (you must document this; no other excuses are acceptable), you may be allowed or required to take a make-up exam, or the other parts of the course will be counted proportionally more (the choice is the instructor’s). In particular, forgetting the time or place of an exam is not an excuse for missing it!
First day of instruction: September 25, 2019
10-day drop deadline: October 8, 2019
Last day to add: October 10, 2019
Midterm exam: November 1, 2019
Last day to opt for P/NP grading: October 29, 2019
Last day of instruction: December 6, 2019
Final exam: December 11, 2019 from 10:30am–12:30pm
In this course, grades are assigned based on your overall score, which is out of 100 points. The letter grades, and the scores they are assigned to, are:
| grade | % | grade | % | grade | % | grade | % | grade | % |
| B+ | 87–89.99 | C+ | 77–79.99 | D+ | 65–69.99 | ||||
| A | 95–100 | B | 83–86.99 | C | 73–76.99 | D | 60–64.99 | F | 0–54.99 |
| A− | 90–94.99 | B− | 80–82.99 | C− | 70–72.99 | D− | 55–59.99 |
Curve. The score of each assignment and exam will be curved. Enough points will be added to the highest score to set it to 100%, and the same number of points will be added to the other scores. The final scores will not be curved.
Extra Credit. Extra credit is tallied separately and does not figure into the scores for assignments. At the end of the term, I will multiply the percent of the extra credit by 5 and add it into the overall score. So, for example, if you get 80% of the extra credit points, at the end of the quarter, your final score will be your overall score plus 4 (= 80% × 5).
Weighting. The weights of the assignments and exams are:
| Homework assignments | 30% |
| Lab assignments | 20% |
| Midterm exam | 20% |
| Final exam | 30% |
The UC Davis Code of Academic Conduct, available at http://sja.ucdavis.edu/files/cac.pdf, applies to this class. For this course, all submitted work must be your own. You may discuss your assignments with classmates or the instructor to get ideas or a critique of your ideas, but the ideas, words, and programs you submit must be your own. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, collaboration is considered cheating. Also, remember to cite, and give the source for, anything you copy or paraphrase, as is standard academic protocol. Plagiarism, even (especially) copying code from a book or the web without crediting it, is cheating.
The single exception to the rule against collaboration is debugging. Once you have written your program, if you need help debugging it, you are free to ask a classmate for help providing that classmate has also written the program. (This should avoid any unintentional copying.) Sometimes having someone else look over a program that is not quite working right will lead you to the best way to fix it, and you both will gain valuable experience in looking at programs and figuring out what is going on. But you must not collaborate on writing the program.
Any cheating will be reported to the Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs.
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