Web Search and Mining
Spring 2008

Please report any dead links to me.

Administrivia

Instructor
Soumen Chakrabarti
Teaching assistants
Rajiv Khanna , Dhaval Makawana
Time and place
Slot 14, i.e., Tue+Fri 5--6:25pm, in classroom SIC301. The first lecture will be on Fri 2008/01/04.
Moodle
Visit the Moodle site for CS635 here.
Syllabus and lecture calendar
See the moodle page.
Course newsgroup
Watch cse.cs635 (internal access) on jeeves.cse.iitb.ac.in for announcements.
Assignments
To be worked out in small groups of 2--3 students. HW 1, HW 2, HW 3, HW 4.
Calendar
What topic was covered when.

Evaluation

Alert! Tentative marks and grades posted on 5/5/2008.

Credit students will need to write a midterm (35%) and a final (40%) exam, and do a few assignments, typically using Java, Scilab and WEKA (25%).

Audit students have to write only the final exam and, to pass, their score must be above the bottom 20 percent of the class in finals only.

Eligibility

Mtech1s, DD4s and Btech3s are the primary targets for this course. But it is open to all PG, DD and Btech4 students of all departments subject to department/facad approval. If you are CSE Btech3, ask for my consent by email while citing your CPI and grades in Paradigms and Prob/Stat.