INFS-797/IT-803: Fall 2007 documents and announcements

1. Important guidelines
   1. Classroom etiquette:
      1. All mobile phones must be turned off for the duration of the lecture -- no exceptions!
      2. Late entries and early exits should be avoided, but are permitted -- however, a student is allowed one entry and one exit (per lecture)!

2. General Information
   1. Essential data
   2. Class schedule

3. Slides
   1. Sep 5 - Superviews: paper slides
   2. Sep 19 - Multiplex: paper slides
   3. Sep 26 - Fusionplex: paper slides
   4. Oct 3 - Utility-based fusion: paper slides alternative slides
   5. Oct 24 - Autoplex: paper slides
   6. Oct 31 - Automatch and Tuplerank: paper 1 paper 2 slides
   7. Nov 7 - Query consolidation: paper slides
   8. Nov 14 - Estimating the quality of databases: paper slides alternative slides

4. Presentations
   1. November 28:

         7:20-7:30 setup
      1. 7:30-8:00 presentation: Garret
         8:00-8:10 discussion
         8:10-8:20 break
      2. 8:20-8:50 presentation: Aybar
         8:50-9:00 discussion
         9:00-9:10 break
      3. 9:10-9:40 presentation: Ruhollah
         9:40-9:50 discussion
      

   2. December 5:

         7:20-7:30 setup
      4. 7:30-8:00 presentation: Joshua
         8:00-8:10 discussion
         8:10-8:20 break
      5. 8:20-8:50 presentation: Sylvia
         8:50-9:00 discussion
         9:00-9:10 break
      6. 9:10-9:40 presentation: Arthur
         9:40-9:50 discussion
      

5. Announcements
   1. Students should download and read the weekly paper(s) ahead of the class (and, if available, the lecture slides, as well).
   2. The classs schedule has been updated, to reflect a cancellation and to announce the guest speakers.
   3. Students should schedule individual appointments to disscusss the semester research projects.
   4. The slides for the guest lecture by Prof. Domeniconi are now available.
   5. Reminder: The final papers are due 7:00pm December 12. Please email me a pdf file.