CS5604, Fall 1995 --- News / Announcements

News on 95/12/11

The Harvest system has been installed to allow full-text search of course notes. You can use it with URL http://ei.cs.vt.edu/Harvest/brokers/cs5604/
As of 9:40pm on 12/11/95 I have received finals from the following people (using last names only): Barton Falck Feggins Fitzgerald Gaddam Garvin Heiman Joyce Kalafut Kile Klein Madhava Muhlenberg O'Hare Phanouriou Ryan Saligram Sgamma Thomas Walls Wiley

The Table of Contents now has Summaries of Articles and Summaries of Class Sessions which have been updated and reorganized to be more useful.

See updated info below about final, opscan, photos, etc.
There is a new entry, "Review," on the course home page to help you in your studies.

Some students have not yet identified their photos in the class materials. This was requested of all students and is a required effort. Please check the files and give me the needed info. if you have not yet had time.
Students are also obligated to complete the post-test. Please use the opscans provided, or just mail in a file of lines, each with question number and response number.

This news files has been shortened to eliminate old information.
Deadline for all quizes and exercises is 11:49pm 12/14/95. No work turned in after that will be graded. It is unlikely that there will be a chance for students to make revisions or extra explanations on quizes or exercises turned in after 12/12.
The final is open book, open notes, open access to the Internet. The Honor Code is in effect and all work must be your own. Two hours is the time period allowed; you must stop after 2 hrs. You may download the final in advance if you are worried about connections, but must only spend 2 hours working on it.
The Blacksburg final is 1:05-3:05pm on 12/14 as originally scheduled. It will be in McB 659A.
The No. VA final will 6:30-8:30pm on 12/11. Professor Fox will be at x1-5113 reachable directly from phones in the building, or remotely at 540/231-5113 or by computer connection using mail or "talk" over the internet to fox@fox.cs.vt.edu if there are questions. The 1st floor lab and the 3rd floor lab will be open.
All quizes and assignments and other materials for the course are available.

The Blacksburg class on Tue. 11/28 will be held in McB 110. Students will be videotaped and put short movies about them on the WWW. Other multimedia activities will take place so students get hands-on experience in the Information Access Lab.

There seem to be network problems from No. VA to Blacksburg. It may be general problems on the internet or with the carrier (Sprint). We are working on this matter. Meanwhile, keep trying and be patient.

PLEASE go back to normal in sending your mail, following previous instructions: a) send to 5604i@fox.cs.vt.edu; b) Put your last name, unit number, quiz version, 5604n or 5604b in Subject

IBM Digital Library and Information Delivery Technologies Open House Wedn Oct. 18 in D.C.
This will be at Highway 1, 601 Penn. Ave. NW, North Building, Suite 520, 9am to 6pm, showing:
- The Luther Archives
- The Spanish Archive
- The FDR Electronic Library
- EduPort Classroom
- infoMarket
- Data Mining and Clustering
- U.S. Patent Library Server
- Multisearch
- Research in Satellite Image Recognition
- Diamond (visualization)
- Parallel Visual Explorer
- IBM Visualization Data Explorer
- 3-D Interactive Accelerator

The GTA requests that all email have a helpful Subject line, to help with grading and filing. So, please have something like one of the following:
- 5604b DL exercise submission by Thomas, Johnson and Ortega
- 5604n IF quiz A clarification
- 5604b FAQ submission
- 5604n class summmary 10/9 by Smith, Jones, and Wilson

No. VA students now have accounts also on nova1.cs.vt.edu which is in the CS lab in the Telestar building. Check with the main CS office or the GTA for access to the room. You can also use "telnet" to reach it. Your account id and password is the same as you use for quizes, except if your password did not have at least one number or one upper case letter, the digit 1 was added. If you have any problems, call Steve Chen, with office telephone number (703)698-6046 and office hours: Monday - Thursday : 1:00 - 6:00pm.

No. VA class Mon. 11/6 will be in the Library, from 6:30-8:30. Please arrive promptly. Jan Carlton will give you a tour, show you the various online and CD-ROM services, and guide you to learn more about electronic library services. See for background the Trips entry off the course home page for what happened in a similar library visit in Blacksburg.

The FAQ file reflects questions and comments for the first weeks.
There is a new entry on the Table of Contents to access Summaries of Class Sessions. Please turn in any you plan to write BEFORE looking at those done by others in the class.

Quizes are now available over the Web. To access these you should use the login ID you chose for video.cs.vt.edu, and the password given for that system. Note that I entered your password as best as I could read it, using only lower case letters, and including no more than 8 characters. If you want to take a quiz and are not in the list below, or want your password changed, send email to fox@vt.edu.

The CACM readings can be accessed using Netscape or Mosaic from http://ei.cs.vt.edu/TR/Search/ by clicking here or on an X-capable unit using the PRC editor here or can be accessed page by page on "video" in the directory tree /u4/pages/acm/cacm with its subdirectories for volumes, numbers, and articles.
GTA is Jae-Woong Hwang, jhwang@csgrad.cs.vt.edu, with home page http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~jhwang/
Summary 1 (DL unit class 8/24)
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