Date	Topic Covered	Assignments
12-Jan	Course Introduction and Logistics	Login into class homepage
14-Jan	Emerging technologies - basics	Notes
19-Jan	Emerging technologies - information retrieval	Notes
21-Jan	Introduction to Information Retrieval	Ch 1, Korfhage
26-Jan	How much information - emerging technology	http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
28-Jan	Introduction to complexity for information retrieval	Notes
2-Feb	Internet and web	Notes
4-Feb	Query models	Ch 3, Korfhage
	Exercise 1 handed out
9-Feb	Text documents	Ch 2 Korfhage
11-Feb	Search engine project brief presentation
16-Feb	Matching	Ch 4 Korfhage
18-Feb	Text analysis	Ch 5 Korfhage
23-Feb	Information retrieval evaluation	Ch 8 Korfhage
	Exercise 1 due
25-Feb	Indexes, inverted files	Ch 5 Korfhage
	Exercise 2 handed out
1-Mar	Brief presentations on research topics (1,3,5.7,9,11)
3-Mar	Brief presentations on research topics (2,4.6,8,10,grad)
8-Mar - 10-Mar	No class - spring break
15-Mar	Metasearch	Notes
17-Mar	Recommender systems - collaborative filtering	http://www.acm.org/cacm/MAR97/resnick.html
	Exercise 3 handed out
22-Mar	Google - pagerank	http://www7.scu.edu.au/programme/fullpapers/1921/com1921.htm
	Exercise 2 due
24-Mar	Review for exam
29-Mar	Mid term exam
31-Mar	User evaluation of search engines - Professor Jansen	http://ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/jjansen/academic/pubs/pages_viewed.pdf
5-Apr	Shopbots - Professor Mullen
7-Apr	Image search - Professor Wang
12-Apr	Student Presentations on Research Topics	Groups 4 & 10
	Exercise 3 due
	Student Presentations on Research Topics
14-Apr	Search engine report due	Groups 12 & 7
	Search engine interface available for queries
	Student Presentations on Research Topics
19-Apr	Student Presentations on Research Topics	Groups 5 & 9
22-Apr	Student Presentations on Research Topics	Groups 3 & 6
26-Apr	Student Presentations on Research Topics	Groups 1 & 8
28-Apr	Research presentations due	Groups 2 & 11