There will be no extensions for projects. Hand in what you have on the due date.
An electronic newsgroup will be set up for all course-related announcements. Check there regularly for any course related announcements. Questions or comments of a general nature that would be of interest to the whole class should be posted there. The instructor and the TA will be reading the newsgroup regularly.
The web site for the course is at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kar/4995f00. The TA will be taking notes of our discussions during class, and those notes will be posted on the web site. Links to other relevant resources will be put on the web page.
You are required to get CS accounts for use in room 486 (the CLIC lab). These accounts can be used in class for demos during presentations, and also for work in the CLIC lab outside of scheduled class hours. All students in this class will have access to the CLIC lab whenever it is open, outside of scheduled class hours. There is a charge to get a CLIC account -- account application details are available here. You can use any computing platforms you want as long as your programs conform to the interface specifications described within each project.
The number of times that a single student may contribute during one class is limited to three, in order to allow for as many participants as possible.