Calendar for CS5604, Blacksburg

There are 15 weeks in this course, with the last devoted to review, plus a final exam. The Calendar below gives details for each week. Please also refer to the Units document, where more details can be found about points and where the grouping is by Unit rather than week. Note that a 2-letter ID is given for each of the Units and is used here to save space. Thus the structure below is:

• WEEK.ID: Unit Title(s)
  Readings for this week
  Dates for this week [and special events]

Weekly Calendar

• 1. DL: Introduction, Digital Libraries
  FOXE88d, SAMU91a, DONG87
  8/22, 8/24
• 2. IR: Information Storage & Retrieval
  Ch1, SALT86a, Ch2
  8/29, 8/31
• 3. IF: Inverted Files / Boolean Systems
  Ch3, Ch12, Ch15, SALT83d
  9/5, 9/7 [library]
• 4. IF + SS: IF +String Searching
  Ch5
  9/12, 9/14
• 5. SS + RR: SS + Ranking
  Ch10 + Ch14
  9/19, 9/21
• 6. RR: Ranking / Relevance Feedback
  SALT75b, Ch11
  9/26, 9/28 [lab]
• 7. CL: Clustering
  Ch16
  10/3, 10/5 [lab]
• 8. IN: Indexing / Document Analysis
  Ch7, Ch8
  10/10 [lab], 10/12
• 9. SD: SGML / Document Translation
  COOM87, MAMR87
  10/17, 10/19
• 10.HT: Hypertext
  NIEL90a, HAAN92
  10/24, 10/26
• 11.HT + MM: HT + Multimedia
  FOXE91b, WALL91
  10/30 [MBONE, 6:30pm], 11/2 [lab]
• 12.MM: Multimedia
  PHIL91a, GREE92
  11/7 [videotapes], 11/9 [lab / demos in Information Access Lab, McB 110]
• 13.MM + KB: MM + Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval
  FURN87
  11/14, 11/16 [lab]
• 14.KB: Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval
  LEBO88, MALO87a
  11/28, 11/30 [lab]
• 15: Review
  12/5
• 16: Final Exam
  12/14 at 1:05-3:05pm