Date Topic covered Assignments
7-Sep Introduction http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
14-Sep Ch 1-2 Ch 1-2
Complexity of Information Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory
21-Sep Ch 2 and shopbots Professor John Yen - Ch2
Professor Tracy Mullen
http://www.cio.com/archive/110100_et.html?printversion=yes
Problem Set 1 - due Oct 5
28-Sep Ch 3-4-5-6
5-Oct Ch 11 Problem Set 1 due
Intro to IR - read chs 1 and 2 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
12-Oct IR and Search
Read chs 5 and 7 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
19-Oct Search project presentations
Indexes - ch 4 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
Problem Set 2 - due Nov 2
26-Oct Ch 7-8-9
2-Nov Ch 10-12 http://www.ai.mit.edu/~murphyk/Bayes/bayesrule.html
Problem Set 2 due
9-Nov Ch 13-14 Problem Set 3 - due Nov 16
16-Nov Review for exam Presentation by Dean Jim Thomas
23-Nov Exam
30-Nov Presentations 6, 8, 5, 2, 1
7-Dec Presentations 9, 4, 7, 3