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The following outline is a tentative list of the topics we hope to
cover.
- Introduction
- Foundational protocols: HTTP, HTML, browser archiecture
- Server basics, cookies, log files, dynamic page generation
- Website management, N-tier architecture, scalability
- Information Retrieval
- Traditional approaches
- Ranking, TF/IDF, precision / recall, stemming, stop words
- Latent Semantic Indexing
- Web-oriented techniques
- Hypertext analysis (page rank, hubs and authorities, anchor text)
- Spamming: keyword stuffing, doorway/jump pages, cloaking, font tricks
- Spider search strategy, macro structure of the Web
- Implementation and scale-up issues
- Index structures, stemming
- Boolean processing
- Summarization and snippets
- Classification and Clustering on the Web
- Learning, classification, and datamining
- Clustering of search engine results
- Collaborative filtering, user modeling, adaptive websites
- Information Extraction
- Question answering
- KnowItAll
- Special Topics
- Meta-search, query routing.
- The Semantic Web, Semantic e-mail
- Cryptography, security, privacy, P3P
- Micropayments, digital cash, server-side wallets, and e-commerce
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