Tentative Syllabus & Schedule for CSE490I
(expect some changes here!)
| Date | Topic | Material | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
02-Jan |
Introduction | Intro, overview, mechanics, history | |
04-Jan |
Networking review | ||
09-Jan |
Web servers, logs, browsers, html | ||
11-Jan |
Spiders | ||
16-Jan |
Fundamentals of relational databases | ||
18-Jan |
SQL | ||
23-Jan |
DBMS implementation specifics: ODBC, JDBC | ||
25-Jan |
Search Engines | HTTP, search strategy, robot exclusion | |
30-Jan |
Index structures, boolean processing, summarization | ||
01-Feb |
Ranking (IR. Precision/recall, Tf/idf, latent semantic indexing) | ||
06-Feb |
Hypertext analysis (Kleinberg, google) | ||
08-Feb |
Metasearch, wrappers, MetaCrawler | ||
13-Feb |
Clustering (Grouper) | ||
15-Feb |
Ask Jeeves, query routing | ||
20-Feb |
Datamining | ||
22-Feb |
Security | Cryptographic fundamentals, public-key cryptography | |
27-Feb |
Adaptive web sites | ||
01-Mar |
-- No Class -- | ||
06-Mar |
E-commerce | Payment, SET, wallets, one-click, micropayments | |
08-Mar |
Conclusion | Conclusion |