Fall 2015
September 01
Learning Objective: To introduce the basic concepts around web search
| Read: Wikipedia about Vannevar Bush | |
| Read: "As We May Think" | |
| Read: 19.1 - 19.4 |
September 03
Learning Objective: To introduce the basic concepts around web search
| Read: 19.5 - 19.7 | |
| Read "Simple, Proven Approaches to Text Retrieval" | |
| Take the get to know you quiz | |
| Get ready to participate |
| U2: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For | |
| Web Search Basics: QT, pdf |
September 08
Learning Objective:Web Search Basics
| Read: 20.1 - 20.3 |
September 10
Learning Objective: Web Crawling
| Read: 20.4 - 20.5 |
| According To John: Search | |
| Google Contributor | |
| Web Search Basics: QT, pdf | |
| Brainstorm palidrome solution | |
| Dolcipator Venexus |
September 15
Learning Objective: Web Crawling
| Read: The Web As a Graph |
| Faith and Learning Moment | |
| Dolcipator Venexus | |
| Son Volt : The Search | |
| Web Crawling QT, pdf | |
| Dear Mr. Watterson | |
| Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine |
September 17
Learning Objective:Index Construction
| Son Volt : The Search | |
| Cuil Search Engine | |
| Web Crawling QT, pdf |
Sept 18
| Text Processing |
September 22
Learning Objective: Crawling Assignment
| Read: Ch 4 |
September 24
Learning Objective: Connectivity Server
| Read: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine | |
| Online quiz Eureka Vannevar Bush | |
| Online quiz Eureka: As We May Think | |
| Online quiz Eureka Chapter 19 | |
| Online quiz Eureka Simple Proven Approaches to Text Retrieval |
| Onion Does TED | |
| Indexing Algorithms: QT, pdf |
September 29
Learning Objective: Map/Reduce
| Faith and Learning Moment | |
| Map/Reduce: QT, pdf | |
| 3D Food Printing | |
| Shapeways | |
| Octopodes | |
| Think about how to make a search engine for 3D models |
October 01
Office Hours Today
| Office Hours: No Class Today |
Oct 2
| Crawl Bible |
October 06
Learning Objective:Querying with Posting Lists
| Vangelis Titles | |
| Faith and Learning Moment Chariots of Fire | |
| Review Bible Crawl | |
| Query Scoring: QT, pdf | |
| Keeping it Real Moment Chariots of Fur |
October 15
Learning Objective:Vector Space Scoring
| Online quiz Eureka Chapter 6 |
| Query Scoring: QT, pdf | |
| Dieter Rams' Principles of Good Design |
October 20
Learning Objective:Vector Space Scoring
| Read: Ch 7 |
October 22
Learning Objective:Latent Sematic Analysis
| Read: Ch 18 |
Oct 23
| Crawl Gutenberg |
October 27
Learning Objective:Latent Semantic Analysis Demo
| SOLA-MI Trust Falling | |
| Faith and Learning Moment | |
| LSA Demo: QT, pdf | |
| Google Trip update |
October 29
Learning Objective:PageRank
| Read: Ch 21.2 |
November 03
Learning Objective: Page Rank plus Map Reduce
November 12
Learning Objective:Social Search
| Read: Aardvark paper for class | |
| Online quiz Eureka Chapter 8 |
November 17
Learning Objective: 
oogle Field Trip
Nov 20
| M/R Posting |
November 24
Learning Objective:Question Answering
| Read: Ch. 9 for class | |
| Online quiz Eureka Sourcerer |
December 03
Learning Objective:Lab Session for final project
Dec 04
| Query |
Dec 11
| Big Crawl |