From elau@cs.washington.edu Sun Nov 9 12:37:33 1997 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:18:34 -0800 (PST) From: Edward Lau To: Martin Dickey Subject: Re: CSE 444 service project Proposal: A UW Student Interests Database This is a database which helps UW students find other students who have similar interests with them. The core of the database would consist of a root table that lists students. There would be relations of this root table that would contain all of the background information about the students, including name, sex, age, address, phone number, family background, academic major, class schedule, job, hobbies, extra-curricular activities, future plans, etc. Some of these information will be used to determine the "similarities" among students. The user interface will ask a student to enter his/her information. The interface should be implemented such that most of the entries will have a range of choices for a student to choose from. After a student enters all his information, the interface will present the information of a few other students who have the most "similarities" with him/her. The interface will be designed such that it would be easy to use. And there has to be an effective algorithm to determine the "similarities" among students. This database could be implemented in Microsoft Access.