Syllabus

Homework Assignments

1. Homework 1 (due January 28, 2009)
2. Homework 2 (due February 4, 2009)
3. Homework 3 (due February 11, 2009)
4. Homework 4 (due February 18, 2009)
5. Homework 5 (due February 25, 2009)
6. Homework 6 (due April 3, 2009 - yes, this is a Friday)
7. Homework 7 (due April 17, 2009 - another Friday)

Student Presentations

• Index Compression by Ferrol Aderholdt (ppt format)
• Compromised Search Engine Caching by Sreekanth Balibani (pdf format)
• Information Retrieval in Large-Scale File Systems by Xin Chen (pdf format)
• Identifying Web Spam by Rob Dye (pdf format)
• Page Rank Modifications and Alternatives by Brett Harper (ppt format)
• Deep-Web Crawling and Related Work by Matt Honeycutt (pptx format)
• Netflix Prize: Predicting Ratings by Aaron Smith (ppt format)

Supplemental Materials

• Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet by López-Ortiz
• Website for Information Retrieval textbook
• A Comparison of Open Source Search Engines by Middleton and Baeza-Yates
• Wumpus Search Engine/IR System
• Managing Gigabytes for Java
• n-grams at Google
• Hadoop, a Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Search (New York Times article about Hadoop implementation of MapReduce)
• Papers mentioned in class

Research Labs and Projects

• Web Science Research Initiative
• Web Science at Georgia Tech
• Laboratory for Web Algorithmics at the University of Milan, Italy
• Center for Web Research at the University of Chile
• Data Mining and Web Search Group at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Project ALGO-NEXT (Algorithms for the Next Generation Internet and Web: Methodologies, Design and Applications) at six universities in Italy (Rome - 3, Padua, Perugia, and Pisa)
• Clean Slate Design for the InternetInterdisciplinary Research Program at Stanford
• Kno.e.sis at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), a Semantic Web project (Knowledge-Enabled Information and Services Science)
• 100x100 Clean Slate Project at Carnegie Mellon and other universities

Classes Elsewhere

• University of Cincinnati
• Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Old Dominion University

Project Samples/Ideas from Similar Courses Elsewhere

• Information Retrieval Course at Cornell University
• Web Mining Course at Indiana University
• Intelligent Information Retrieval Course at DePaul University