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University of Oregon
Computer & Information Science

CIS 422
Software Methodology 1
Winter 1999

Contacting Us

Email - Electronic mail is usually the best way to reach us. We read electronic mail every day, and try to respond within 24 hours.

[Michal Young] [Wei Zhu] [Both]

When you send electronic mail, please ALWAYS include "CIS422" in the subject line of your message, to help us organize our incoming mail. Email which does not include "CIS422" in the subject line may be misfiled and not answered as quickly. Please also include a descriptive subject.

Phone - Telephone is definitely not the best way to reach us, in most cases. I am often out of the office, and I don't check voice mail nearly as often as I check email. The telephone is handy in one case, though: To check whether I am in my office.

Michal Young: (541) [34]6-4140 (sorry, there is no "dialto" URL scheme)

Face-to-face - Visit our offices; face-to-face conversation is by far the highest bandwidth communication available. BUT, please either come during regular office hours or make an appointment using email. I am happy to make an appointment at a time convenient for you.

Just as CIS422 is only one of the courses that you are taking this term, please understand that teaching CIS422 is just one part of my work, which also involves research, departmental service (hiring new faculty, recruiting new graduate and undergraduate students, advising, etc.), and service outside the university (organizing conferences, editing a journal, etc.). I will do my best to make time when you need it, but dropping in outside office hours without an appointment disrupts my work and makes it harder to schedule my time so that all of my work, including CIS422, gets done. Half an hour in a scheduled meeting is much better than a 10 minute interruption!

Instructor Meetings with Groups

When I last taught CIS422 in spring of last year, several students suggested that it would be useful if I met individually with each team. Unfortunately the suggestion came late in the term ("it would have been nice if ...") and it was not possible to put the suggestion immediately into practice. So this term, I want to try it out. I want to meet with each team at least once in the first half of the term (while you are working on the first project), and once in the second half of the term (while you are working on the second project).

I will also ask our TA, Wei Zhu, to meet with each group.

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Last Update Fri, Feb 12, 1999 ; Bug reports and comments to Michal Young