Freshman Seminar - Spring, 2004

Freshman Seminar - Solving Problems Using Computer Science
Spring, 2004, Mondays, 10-10:50, CS243
Professor Chen Li

Index

Announcements
Course Goal
Course Requirements
Syllabus
Lectures
Resources

Announcements

(6/7/04) We checked class attendance today.
(6/7/04) Each student needs to write a summary report (4-5 pages) about the presentation you gave in class. The report should focus on how you think Computer Science or Databases techniques are used in the application. The final report is due on June 14 (Monday), 5 PM. You can send the report to the instructor.
(5/3/04) Here is the schedule of student presentations. Prepare your slides for your presentation. I will bring an LCD projector, and you need to bring your own laptop. Notice that part of your final grade is closely related to the performance in your class presentations.

Course Goal

We need to access information in our everyday life, especially because of the advent of the Internet. For instance, we use banking systems, do on-line shopping, do Google searching, and check class schedules. All of these applications rely on state-of-the-art techniques of databases and information systems. This seminar will give an overview of how all these systems work in our everyday life.

Course Requirements

Students are required to attend each lecture and participate in the discussions. We will do periodiNovembercal attendance checking. You need to read assigned reading materials. In addition, students form groups of no more than two people to give a presentation on any topic related to databases or the Web. The following is the grading policy.

In-class Participation and Discussions	30%
Presentation with a Report	70%

Tentative Syllabus

Introduction to Databases.
Web Search.
Data Modeling and Languages.
Data Integration.
Multimedia Databases.
Data Mining.
Data Cleansing.
Data Warehousing.
Data Privacy.

Lectures

Date	Topic and Presenter
4/5/04 (Monday)	Introduction to Database Systems, Instructor
4/12/04 (Monday)	Web Search Engines, Instructor
4/19/04 (Monday)	Data Modeling and Languages, Instructor
4/26/04 (Monday)	Data Integration (1), Instructor
5/3/04 (Monday)	Data Integration (2), Instructor
5/10/04 (Monday)	HOM, DAVID JONATHAN, on "Game Servers"; [PPT slides] NGUYEN HUU, PATRICK, on "Database Mining in ERP". [PPT slides]
5/17/04 (Monday)	MILLER, ALEXIS ERICA and ARAKAKI, CHRISTINA KITAYO on "OC Hosting"; TAM, BRYANT WEI-CHUNG and DELEON, CLARIBELL on "Various Databases Available for Corporate Use (pros and cons)". [PPT slides]
5/24/04 (Monday)	KHEM, SEWARD and VYAS, KALPESH KISHORE, on "Email systesms". [PPT slides] HUERTA, RICARDO and NGUYEN, NICOLAS MINH HOANG, on "Google".
6/7/04 (Monday)	NGUYEN, JACKSON on "Computer Games".

Resources

Major database courses at UCI: ICS184, ICS185, ICS214A, ICS214B, ICS215.
UCI Calendar (03-04); ICS Instructional Course Offerings.
Places to find papers: DBLP, ACM Digital Library, ACM SIGMOD Anthology, Google, NEC CiteSeer.