Carnegie Mellon University
15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
Spring 2008 - C. Faloutsos

 


 
 
 
 

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**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

  • *** 5/1***: office hours before final:
    • instructor: We May 7, 2-3pm; Fri May 9, 12-1pm
    • TA: Mo May 5, 11-12noon; Thu May 8, 10-11am
  • *** 4/30 *** Study guide for final exam is out
  • *** 4/24 *** no office hours by Hanghang (away, 4/23-4/26). Instead, he will have office hours
    • 11am-12am, Mon. 4/28 (extra) and
    • 10am-11am, Thur. 5/1 (normal)
  • *** 4/21*** Grading scheme for Phase 3 is out
  • *** 4/8 *** Solutions to HW2 are out
  • *** 4/8 *** no office hours by instructor on 4/9 (away)
  • *** 4/3 *** Homework 3 is out
  • *** 3/4 ***: Extra office hour by instructor: Fri 3/7, 12-1pm
    • (and the normal ones: wed 3/5, wed 3/12, 2-3pm)
    • no office hours by TA during 3/4-3/19 (away).
  • *** 2/20 ***:  Midterm study guide is out; Extra office hours for midterm, in addition to the usual ones:
    • Christos:  5-6pm Fri 2/22 (plus usual: 2-3pm Wed)
    • Hanghang: 11-12noon, Mo 2/25 (plus usual: 10-11am Thu)
  • *** 2/18 *** Regrading policy: requests for regrading should be done in writing, explaining (a) the rationale behind the request and (b) the number of additional points requested.
  • *** 2/15 *** :Homework 1 solutions are out.
  • *** 2/12 *** For the project proposal, as announced in class today
    • division of labor: make sure you mention the tasks and expected task duration, for each group member
    • no double credit: if you are doing a related project for another class or for your dissertation, that's fine, but specify exactly which tasks are for our class, and which tasks are for the other class/project/thesis.
  • *** 2/5 *** Check the 'blackboard' for our course bulletin board (notice that all other functions are disabled)
  • *** 2/4 *** Late policy: 3 slip days, that you may use for the homeworks (only).
    • You may use all three for one homework, or 1 for each, or in any other combination.
    • No penalties, no need to provide justification.
    • After that, 5 per cent penalty per day of delay.
    • The slip days apply only to homeworks; delay on project deliverables is 5 per cent per day of delay, for the whole group.
  • *** 2/3 ***: OMNI-trees paper added to reading list
  • *** 1/27 ***: Homework 1 is out
  • *** 1/20 ***: Project information is out
  • Welcome to the class!

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Last modified May 1, 2008, by Christos Faloutsos