May 21, 2009, 8:00pm: The
mean of the second exam is 85 and the median is 86. Chong has the
graded exams and plans to put them in students' CS department mailboxes
for those who have them.
April 24, 2009, 2:30pm:
Professor LaPaugh will have extra office hours Tuesday, 4/28,
12:30pm-1:30pm for questions prior to the exam. Recall that Chong
Wang has regular office hours Mondays 5-6pm
in room 431
Computer Science Building (the AI lab).
The second
take-home exam will be distributed at the end
of class Tuesday, April 28 and will be due at the beginning of class
Thursday,
April 30. The format of the exam will be identical to the first
exam.
Professor LaPaugh will be away Monday 4/13 through Wednesday 4/15
and therefore will not hold normal Tuesday office hours. Please
see Chong Wang with questions. Joe Calandrino will be guest
speaker in class Tuesday 4/14.
Sign up
for your presentation on one of April 16, 21, 23 using
OIT's office hours scheduling system WASS. Presentations are
strictly limited to 10 minutes per individual project and 15 minutes
per pairs project. Instructions are on the Project Page under "Checkpoint presentation".
April 2, 2009, 5:22pm: Exams
were returned today in class. Please see Chong Wang to pick up
your exam if you were not in class. Mean is 88 with a standard
deviation of 10; median is 90.
March 29, 2009
6:40pm: Student presentations will be April 16, 21,
and 23 during class. If you are doing a project alone, you
will give a 10 minute presentation with 2-3 additional minutes for
questions. If you are doing a project with a partner, you will
together with your partner give one 15 minute presentation with 2-3
additional minutes for questions. Details will be posted on the Project Page shortly.
March 27, 2009 3:50pm: Assignment
4 is now available.
March 9, 2009 4:00pm: Solutions
to
Assignment 3 (pdf) are now
available.
March 5, 2009
5:45pm: Professor LaPaugh will hold extra office hours on
Tuesday, March 10, from 10am to 11:30am. As always, other
times are available by appointment. March 5, 2009 11:30am:
Information on the first exam:
The first exam is a take-home exam available after class on
Tuesday March 10 and due at the beginning of class Thurs March
12. It will be similar to a problem set and designed to take
about 5 hours, but you will not be constrained to work on it for a
fixed block of time or for a fixed length of time.
The exam will be open-book with restrictions.You will be
allowed to use the following reference materials while taking the exam:
your
personal notes and problem set submissions,
the
problem set solutions posted on the course Web site,
Introduction
to Information Retrieval by Manning,
Raghavan, and Schütze,
class
notes and any of the readings posted on the “Schedule and Readings”
page of the
Web site for the course under “Reading” or “Also of interest”.(Check the “Schedule and Readings” page for
updates on the readings and class notes.)
No
other materials are allowed.
The
first exam for the 2008 offering of cos435 is here (pdf); brief solutions are here(pdf). Note that these solutions may
not contain the level of detail expected of students taking the exam.
Feb. 5, 2009 8:15 PM: Assignment
1 is now available. Assignment 1 was briefly posted with
incorrect dates for the lateness penalties. Please check the
current version.
Feb
4, 2009: Office hours:
Andrea LaPaugh: Tues. 4:20-5:30pm
in room 304 Computer Science Building or by
appointment.
Chong Wang: Mon. 5-6pm in room 431
Computer Science Building (the AI lab)
or by
appointment.
February 2, 2009: Welcome
to COS 435. When we discuss the goals of the course during our
first meeting , I would like to include a discussion of the seminal
paper on
information organization and search "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush,
published in The Atlantic Monthly
(now The Atlantic) in July
1945. This
is a 12 page paper written for a general educated audience. In
it,
Vannevar Bush calls on scientists to achieve a vision of access to all
information. This vision is surprisingly close to current Web
information search, albeit missing the digital technology revolution.
PLEASE GIVE THIS PAPER A QUICK READ BEFORE CLASS ON TUESDAY,
concentrating on the major goals put forth by Vannevar Bush. How
much of his vision have we achieved? What goals should we still strive
for today?
There
are links to an html version and a pdf version of the paper on the Schedule
and Assignments page.
I look forward to our discussion on Tuesday.
A.S. LaPaugh
Assignment 1 was briefly posted with
incorrect dates for the lateness penalties. Please check the
current version.