Course info

• Syllabus
• Schedule
• Foils & reading list

• Project
• Homeworks
• Exams

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• Final exam study guide (5/1/2002)

• Foils of Dr. Phil Gibbons
• Check the project grading scheme (4/16/2002) 
• The foils on DSP are slightly updated, with a few (cool!) links (4/8/2002)

---

Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, mail: christos@cs.cmu.edu

office: Wean Hall 7127, ph (412)-268.1457
office hours:  We 1-2; Th 12-1; also, by appointment;at WeH7127
• Class meets: Tu-Th 2:30-3:50 WeH 4615A
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.S02

Project

• Project guidelines
• List of suggested projects (internal to CMU)
• project grading scheme (4/16/2002)

Homeworks

• Homework 1
• Homework 2  and hint 
• Homework 3

Exams guidelines

• Midterm study guide
• Final exam study guide

Newsgroups

• academic.cs.15826-discuss or cyrus.academic.cs.15826-discuss: Feel free to post course-related messages here.
• academic.cs.15826-announce or cyrus.academic.cs.15826-announce: Low traffic news group, for announcements by the instructor. Please do not post here

Misc. resources

• ACM SIGKDD home page (data mining tools, datasets and other resources)
• ACM SIGMOD home page (DBMS resources, free software, papers, conference info)
• Michael Ley's DB bibliography server (impressive!)
• DB Vendors: Oracle, Sybase, IBM - DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix
• StatLib (statistical tools and datasets)
• Numerical Recipes in C e-copy (use this link if the previous doesn't work)
• multimedia retrieval
• Informedia at CMU: video retrieval by content
• multidimensional scaling on the web: java demo
• retrieval by voice content (musclefish.com)
• retrieval by image content: Virage; QBIC