WWW Search Engines: Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations
CSE 397/497
Fall 2002 Syllabus

Course Web page
The course Web page is http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/course/searchengines/.  Lecture notes, assignments, and online readings will be available there.
Textbooks and readings
This course has three required texts. CSE397/497 students will use Understanding Search Engines (USE), by Berry and Browne, SIAM, 1999, and Finding Out About (FOA), by Belew, Cambridge, 2000. CSE497 students will additionally use Modern Information Retrieval (MIR), by Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999. All three are available from the university and online bookstores, and are on reserve in the Fairchild Martindale library.

In addition, conference and journal papers will be assigned and placed online.
Additional references
Managing Gigabytes, 2nd Ed., by Witten, Moffat, and Bell, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999, will also be on reserve.  Furthermore, Information Retrieval by Van Rijsbergen, Butterworths, 1979, is available on the Web at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html and on the FOA CD-ROM.
Grading
Expected grading for 397 students is: homework will be worth 20%; the midterm exam 20%; the final exam 20%; and the projects 40%.  In addition, up to 20% will be taken off for lack of attendance and/or class participation.  497 students will have a larger emphasis on homework, and will include a measure for in-class presentations.

Syllabus


This page is http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/course/searchengines/syllabus.html
Last revised: 19 November 2002.