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ECS 251: Advanced OS

MapReduce

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Administrative

Proposals handed back, will talk more about in this lecture

Today is the start of two weeks of Google papers

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is a good thing:

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is a good thing:

  • I’ll spend time helping you with your ideas

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is a good thing:

  • I’ll spend time helping you with your ideas
  • I’ll spend time helping you write papers

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is a good thing:

  • I’ll spend time helping you with your ideas
  • I’ll spend time helping you write papers
  • I’ll spend time discussing papers with you

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is a good thing:

  • I’ll spend time helping you with your ideas
  • I’ll spend time helping you write papers
  • I’ll spend time discussing papers with you
  • The most impactful part of my job is helping you become researchers!

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is also a bad thing:

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My view on 251 students

For this quarter, you are all my PhD Students

This is also a bad thing:

  • High expectations for the work you submit

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View on introductions

Serves as the foundation for the rest of your paper

Good: solid foundation

Bad: shaky foundation

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Bottom line

One group got a 5 -- nice job

Some groups got 3 or 4 -- also, should be proud

  • Close to a 5, should be able to get all the way there with my feedback

About 1/2 of the groups got 0 -- still some work left

  • Required to meet with me to discuss next steps

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The way to think about it

Don’t look at it like it’s a 0, think about it as an opportunity to get feedback directly from me about your work

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Common mistakes

Missing key citations / foundational work

  • Lots of people missed “motivation” citations, less worried about this vs foundational
  • If you don’t back something up, you need to cite it!

Poor flow

Poor grammar

Incomplete assignment

Didn’t describe proposed work well