Course info

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• Reading list
• Foils
  

• Project
• Homeworks

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• (4/25/2005) Final exam study guide is out
• (4/25/2005) Extra office hours by instructor:
  
• We 4/27, 2-3
• Mo 5/2, 2-3
  
• (4/20/2005) Reminders for project report (also uni-casted):
• Problem definition: Given ...., Find ...., to optimize ....
• Clear description of proposed method
• Measure of success (eg., RMSE)
• Table of symbols and their definitions

• •(4/12/2005) No class on Thu 4/14 (Carnival)
• (4/12/2005) Homework 3: due date moved to Tu 4/19, 3:01pm
• (4/12/2005) Instructions for poster and final project are out
• (3/31/2005) Hw3 is out
• (3/23/2005) For the project report that is due tomorrow, please make sure you attach the old, graded project proposal.
  
• (3/15/2005) Reminder: Project demos on Friday, April 29, 1pm-4pm. Please make sure that at least one (and ideally, all) group members are there.
• (3/3/2005) Instructor's office hours during the break: Tu 3/8, 12-2pm
• (2/16/2005) Pre-midterm extra office hours by instructor: 
•  Fri 2/18, 12-1pm
• Mo 2/21, 2-3pm
  
• (2/15/2005) IMPORTANT: midterm exam guidelines
  
• (1/28/2005) minor bug fix for HW1: make sure you pick up kdtree1_1.tar
• correction: Deepay's office is WeH 3723 (1/21/2005)
• Homework 1 is out (1/19/2005)
  
• Project guidelines and suggested project list are out (1/13/2005)
  

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Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos,
  
• christos <at> cs.cmu.edu
• Wean Hall 7107, ph (412)-268.1457
• office hours: Tu 12-1; We 1-2; also, by appointment
• TA: Deepayan Chakrabarti (deepay <at> cs)
• office hours: Mo 2-3, Fr 3-4
• Wean Hall 3723
• Class meets : Tu-Th 3:00-4:20  NSH 1305
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.S05

Project

• Project guidelines
• Suggested project list (internal to CMU)
• Guidelines for final project report and for poster
  

Homeworks

1. Homework 1
   
2. Homework 2
3. Homework 3
   

Exams

• Midterm exam guidelines
• Final exam study guide (NEW 4/25/2005)
  

Newsgroups

• academic.cs.15826-discuss or cyrus.academic.cs.15826-discuss: Feel free to post course-related messages here.
• academic.cs.15826-announce or cyrus.academic.cs.15826-announce: Low traffic news group, for announcements by the instructor. Please do not post here

Misc. resources

• ACM SIGKDD home page (data mining tools, datasets and other resources)
• ACM SIGMOD home page (DBMS resources, free software, papers, conference info)
• Michael Ley's DB bibliography server (impressive!)
• DB Vendors: Oracle, Sybase, IBM - DB2, Microsoft SQL Server
• StatLib (statistical tools and datasets)
• multimedia retrieval
• Informedia at CMU: video retrieval by content
• multidimensional scaling on the web: java demo
• retrieval by voice content (musclefish.com)
• retrieval by image content: Virage; QBIC