Advanced topics in Computer Science

Instructor: Dr. Jiaheng Lu
Department of Computer Science, Renmin University of China

Course Goals

This course will be taught in English. It will introduce senior undergradaute students to some advanced topics in computer science, mainly in advanced data management. Students will learn topics about information retrieval, XML data management, string processing and matching, cloud computing and job hunting and interview skills. Significant reading, reviewing, and writing will be required, and students will be expected to participate actively in class discussions, to give an English presentation about your review topics and, to write an article in English.

Time and Place

Thursday 6:00-7:30PM , Public Class Building 3104

Textbooks

Many online tutorials.

Grading Policy

Presentation (in English) 40
In-class Quizzes 20
Paper (in Chinese/English) 40
Total 100%

Lecture Notes

Lecture Number Topic Notes
01 Overview of Class Lec01-intro.pdf
02 Basic indexing and tokenization Lec02-IR.pdf
03 Tolerant retrieval (1) Lec03.pdf
04 Tolerant retrieval (2) Lec04.pdf
05 Index construction Lec05.pdf
06 TF and IDF Lec06.pdf
07 Scoring and ranking Lec07.pdf
08 Query expansion Lec08.pdf
09 Introduction to XML Lec09.pdf
10 XML tree and DTD (1) Lec10.pdf
11 DTD (2) Lec11.pdf
12 XML schema Lec12.pdf
13 Introduction to Cloud computing Lec13.pdf
14 Cloud based service
15-16 Job hunting tips and interview skills

Presentation schedule

Date Student Name (ID) Content
April 23th Zhang chao (2006201716) XML
April 23th Han Jialong (2006201719) String processing
April 23th Chen zhe (2006201727) XML
April 23th Zhen tao (2006201718) Data mining
May 7th Wu Lichen (2006201709) Information retrieval
May 7th Wang yifan (2006201751) Information retrieval
May 7th Li Xibo (2006201760) Information retrieval
May 7th Hu Xiaohong (2006201812) Information retrieval
May 7th Gu xiaoxun (2006201818) Information retrieval
May 14th Guo yinan (2006201869) Information retrieval
May 14th Liu Yang (2006201702) XML
May 14th Suo chen (2006201726) XML
May 14th Zhu Yiming (2006201731) XML
May 21st Gen Yinan (2006201750) XML
May 21st Liu Shuang (2006201753) XML
May 21st Huang huai (2006201703) Cloud computing
May 21st Gai Hailei (2006201708) Cloud computing
June 4th Zhao dingcheng (2006201712) Cloud computing
June 4th Dai Quanxin (2006201715) Cloud computing
June 4th Lv Xie (2006201725) Cloud computing
June 4th Chu Guang (2006201729) Cloud computing
June 11st Song shaohua (2006201734) Cloud computing
June 11st Yang siming (2006201761) Cloud computing
June 11st Hua wen (2006201739) Cloud computing
June 8th Liu Hong (2006201740) Cloud computing
June 8th Chen Mingyuan (2006201743) Cloud computing
June 8th Liu Yang (2006201744) Cloud computing
June 8th Zhang zhiwei (2006201747) Cloud computing
June 8th Liu Yiming (2006201749) Cloud computing
June 8th Wen Hao (2006201757) Cloud computing
June 8th Wei Chenglong (2006201735) Cloud computing
June 8th Hua Xiaoqing (2006201815) Cloud computing
June 8th Cheng Zhehua (2006201859) Cloud computing
June 8th Ma yue (2006201857) Cloud computing
June 8th Liu yang (2006201728) Cloud computing

Reading material

  • O'Reilly's XML.com site
  • From the W3C
  • XML Schema Reference on regular expressions

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