| 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 |