I will host extended office hours on Monday, November 5 and Tuesday, November 6 from 10am until 12noon each day. You are welcome to stop by for an unofficial project review. I can take a look at your project and help you course correct for the last few weeks of class.

I have posted the tentative final project presentation schedule and some additional details about the final project deliverable here.

Overall, I am excited about the many excellent projects we have in the course! So we all can share in my enthusiasm, we will have a 6-Minute Madness in class on Friday October 12. Each project team will have 6 minutes to share the key ideas, insights, and thrust of their project with the rest of the class. No slides are necessary. Just come prepared to speak for 4 minutes about your project, plus 2 minutes of rapid-fire question and response. We will be operating on a very tight clock, so class will begin promptly at 9:10.

Remember that your project proposals are due this Friday (Sept 28) by 11:59pm. This is a hard deadline. Late proposals will not be accepted. Check the course website for details.

I have updated the project proposal description on the course website here. Be sure to review these details before your project proposal is due on September 28.

The schedule of paper presentations is now online. The course notes for lectures 2 and 3 are also up.

We will assign papers in class on Friday. So make sure you have looked over the list of possible papers before coming to class. The order of selection will be random (e.g., you may pick 1st, 10th, or 19th); when it is your turn to pick, you may pick any of the remaining papers on the list (subject to a few constraints I will discuss in class).

The notes from today's lecture are now online here or through the Readings, Notes, and Schedule link in the navigation window over on the lefthand side.

The first student-led paper presentation will be on Wednesday, September 5.

While I will have the final say over which papers we read in class, I would like to tailor our paper selection to your particular research interests. So feel free to look over some of the recent papers from SIGIR, VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, CIKM, ICDCS, IPDPS, WWW, and other conferences relevant to Internet-Scale Data Management. You have until the end of the first week of class (August 31) Thursday, Aug 30 at noon to email me any paper suggestions you may have. I will finalize and publish the final paper list here on September 1. We will assign students to papers in class on Friday, Aug 31.

The course website is now live. Take a look around and let me know if you have any questions.