| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon Jan 7 | Database Systems | Architecture of a Database System (pdf) | slides (pdf). LY. |
| 1 | Wed Jan 9 | Database Systems | One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time has Come and Gone (pdf), (ppt) | slides (pdf). LY. |
| 2 | Mon Jan 14 | Big Data |
Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Systems (pdf), MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters(pdf) |
slides (pdf). LY. Google MR(vid) |
| 2 | Wed Jan 16 | Big Data | Analyzing Massive Astrophysical Datasets: Can. Pig/Hadoop or a Relational DBMS Help? (pdf) | slides (pdf). Serge |
| 3 | Mon Jan 21 | MLK Holiday | ||
| 3 | Wed Jan 23 | Mobile Data Mgmt | A survey of mobile phone sensing (pdf) | Alex |
| 4 | Mon Jan 28 | Web Search | The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine (pdf) | Todd. (vid), (vid). |
| 4 | Wed Jan 30 | Web Search | Facet discovery for structured web search: a query-log mining approach (pdf) | Jordan. Project Proposal due Fri 1700h. |
| 5 | Mon Feb 4 | Location-awareness | LARS: A Location-Aware Recommender System (pdf) | Chris. |
| 5 | Wed Feb 6 | Mobile Data Mgmt | Energy-efficient trajectory tracking for mobile devices (pdf) | Tianli |
| 6 | Mon Feb 11 | Location-awareness | Hyper-local, directions-based ranking of places (pdf) | Dylan |
| 6 | Wed Feb 13 | Mobile Data Mgmt | Continuous nearest neighbor search (pdf) | Todd. r-tree (pdf) |
| 7 | Mon Feb 18 | Presidents' Day Holiday | ||
| 7 | Wed Feb 20 | IR | Predicting quality flaws in user-generated content: the case of wikipedia (pdf) background (pdf) | Jordan. slides (pdf). |
| 8 | Mon Feb 25 | Datamining | Mapping Large Scale Structure in the Universe - An Ongoing Case Study in Data Mining | Prof Jim Heasley. slides (pdf). |
| 8 | Wed Feb 27 | Mobile Data Mgmt | ACE: exploiting correlation for energy-efficient and continuous context sensing (pdf) | Alex. slides (pdf). |
| 9 | Mon Mar 4 | Semantics | Automatic Taxonomy Construction from Keywords (pdf) | Julie |
| 9 | Wed Mar 6 | Data Mining | On Discovery of Traveling Companions from Streaming Trajectories (pdf) | Tianli |
| 10 | Mon Mar 11 | Mobile | SwordFight: enabling a new class of phone-to-phone action games on commodity phones (pdf) | Dylan |
| 10 | Wed Mar 13 | Project | ||
| 11 | Mon Mar 18 | Mobile Data Mgmt | Who killed my battery?: analyzing mobile browser energy consumption (pdf) | Online Review. |
| 11 | Wed Mar 20 | Streaming | Auto-parallelizing stateful distributed streaming applications (pdf) | Online Review & Discussion. Project Progress Report due 1700h. |
| 12 | Mon Mar 25 | Spring Recess | ||
| 12 | Wed Mar 27 | Spring Recess | ||
| 13 | Mon Apr 1 | Semantics | Probase: a probabilistic taxonomy for text understanding (pdf) | Tianli |
| 13 | Wed Apr 3 | Compression | How to wring a table dry: entropy compression of relations and querying of compressed relations (pdf) | Chris |
| 14 | Mon Apr 8 | Social Networks | Choosing the right crowd: expert finding in social networks (pdf) | Dylan |
| 14 | Wed Apr 10 | Compression | Performance analysis of image compression using wavelets (pdf) | Serge |
| 15 | Mon Apr 15 | Compression | Relative Lempel-Ziv factorization for efficient storage and retrieval of web collections (pdf) | |
| 15 | Wed Apr 17 | Streaming | Enhanced Stream Processing in a DBMS Kernel (pdf) | |
| 16 | Mon Apr 22 | Compression | Query-aware compression of join results (pdf) | Online |
| 16 | Wed Apr 24 | Semantics | Semantic queries by example (pdf) | Online |
| 17 | Mon Apr 29 | Project Presentation | ||
| 17 | Wed May 1 | Project Presentation |