Carnegie Mellon University
15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
Spring 2016 - C. Faloutsos


 
 
 
 

Course info Homeworks
Project
Exams
Bulletin board
Miscellaneous

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

  • *** 4/25 ***: for NON-default projects: demo instructions are out
  • *** 4/25 ***: Final exam study guide is out.
  • *** 4/18 ***: HW4 solutions are out
  • *** 4/16 ***: see p.6 of updated default project, for detailed grading scheme of phase3.
  • *** 4/16 ***: EXTENSION: phase3 due date is moved to Wed 4/20, for default and non-default projects alike.
  • *** 4/5 ***: default-project, phase2: partial-credit grading scheme is out (we will return all of ph2, on 4/6)
  • *** 3/28 ***: extension - HW4 is due 4/4
  • *** 3/22 ***: Solutions for HW3 are out
  • *** 3/14 ***: HW4 is out
  • *** 2/29 ***: Default-project grading scheme, for 1-person teams
  • *** 2/21 ***: HW2 solutions are out
  • *** 2/17 ***: midterm study guide is out
  • *** 2/15 ***: HW3 is out
  • *** 2/3 ***: Homework 1 pickup: from the course admin, Mrs. Marilyn Walgora, GHC 8120
  • *** 2/3 ***: HW1 solutions are out
  • *** 2/1  ***: Review questions: check http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826-resources/REVIEW-QUESTIONS/
  • *** 1/25 ***: HW2 is out
  • *** 1/19 ***: Project information is out
  • *** 1/11 ***: HW1 is out
  • *** 1/8 ***: Welcome to the class!

Course information

  • Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, ( christos @ andrew )
    • GHC 8019, cell ph (412)-576.79 three two
    • office hours: Tu 1-2pm; also, by appointment
  • TAs and office hours (all at Citadel Commons)
    • Di JIN,  dijin@andrew ; Wed 12noon-1pm
    • Varshaa NAGANATHAN, vnaganat@andrew; Thu 1:30-2:30pm
    • Wan-Shu (sue) LAI,  wanshul@andrew; no office hours
    • Zhoucheng LI, chouclee@cmu.edu; Mon 11:00am-12:00noon
  • Course admin: Mrs. Marilyn Walgora, GHC8120.
  • Class meets: M-W, 3:00-4:20, DH 1212
  • URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.S16/

Late Policy - for all deliverables:

  • No delay penalties, for medical etc emergencies (bring doctor's note).
  • Each person has 4 'slip days' total, for the whole semester.
    • That is, no questions asked, if the total delay is 4 days or less.
    • 5% per day of delay, after that
  • *** New 2/15 ***: To use slip days:
    • email you material to all the TAs
    • with the subject line:     15-826 Homework Submission (HW #)
    • and the count of slip days you use, as well as the count of slip days left

Regrade-request policy

  • Regrade requests should be done in writing/email
  • within 2 days
  • to the TA that graded the question, and specifying
    1. the question under dispute (e.g., 'HW0-Q.2.b')
    2. the extra points requested (e.g., '2 points out of 5')
    3. and the justification (e.g., 'I forgot to eliminate mirror pairs')
  • in the remote case there is no satisfactory resolution, please contact the instructor.

Homework pick-up information

  • You may pick up graded homeworks etc, from the course admin
    • Mrs. Marilyn Walgora, GHC 8120
    • 9:00-11:45am, 1:15-4:15pm every weekday
    • with photo-id (for your privacy protection)

Homeworks

 

Project

  • Project information (new, Jan. 19, 2016).
    • default project: updated, with 1-person-team grading scheme (Feb. 29, 2016)

Exams

  • Midterm study guide is out.
  • Final exam study guide is out.

Bulletin board

We will use the 'blackboard' for discussions, announcements, and homework deposits - for everything else, we will use this very web page.

Misc. resources
Last modified April 25, 2016, by Christos Faloutsos