Objectives for CS5604

Prepare students to:

• Commence Masters and/or PhD-level research in the broad area of information storage and retrieval (IS&R).
• Read and understand research contributions in this area.
• Critique, contrast, compare, and evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness, and utility of commercially available and research prototype systems for IS&R.
• Select, implement, or design and develop algorithms and data structures for IS&R systems.
• Effectively use indexing, analysis, search, and multimedia access systems --- for common tasks.
• Discuss and explain the main issues relating to developing digital libraries and related services.