The following information is being provided to help coordinate the speedy grading and return of assignments to off-campus students. Please direct any comments or questions about the information below to me (Don Towsley).

• Teaching Assistant. Our TA for the course will be Mr. Raghav Srinivasan: email: raghav@cs.umass.edu
  phone: 413-545-4753
  FAX: 413-545-1249
  Office hours: Mondays and Tuesdays 2:30-3:30pm.
  

  You may find it most convenient to communicate with Raghav and me using email.

• Mailing in your homeworks and exams. Please keep a xerox copy of anything you send in. Things can get lost in your company mail, in US mail, or in the UMass mail.
  

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  Please mail ALL assignments and exams to
  Prof. Don Towsley
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Massachusetts
  Amherst, MA 01003
  towsley@cs.umass.edu
  

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  You may prefer to e-mail your homework and programming assignments in to me. Please do not fax in your assignments -- we share a single FAX machine with a staff of over 200 other people. Also, FAXED-in solutions are often difficult to read, so please either US-mail, or e-mail your solutions. We can only accept, ASCII, postscript, and PDF. Please also do not submit Word, Wordperfect files, or the like.

  For offcampus students with email addresses which are known to us, (i.e., for those of you that have registered for our broadcast email list ) we will email you an assignment's solutions as soon as we receive your assignment. With this, you need not wait until your assignment is graded before studying the solutions.

• Due Dates. Due dates will generally be one, or one and a half, week(s) following the day during which you either viewed the last lecture covered in the homework assignment or received the homework (whichever is later). Late homeworks will be assessed a penalty of 10% per day late.

  I'm hoping the above timing will allow you considerable time and flexibility in completing the assignment. I appreciate the fact that off-campus students have to juggle a job (which is often more than full-time), a family, one or more courses, and other things. However, Please try to complete the assignments ASAP -- the sooner you send in the assignment, the sooner it will be graded and the sooner it will be returned to you. If you need an extension, you need only contact the TA to arrange an extension.

• As always, comments about how we might further improve the process of collecting, and grading homeworks from off-campus students (and any other aspects of the course as well) are always welcome.