Date	Topic Covered	Assignments
27-Aug	Course Introduction and Logistics	Login into class homepage
29-Aug	Introduction to Information Retrieval	Ch 1, Korfhage
5-Sep	How much information	http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
	Introduction to Complexity	See intro-complexity slides
12-Sep	Documents and Query Forms	Ch 2, Korfhage
		Exercise 1 assigned
19-Sep	Query Structures	Ch 3, Korfhage
		http://www.math2.org/math/oddsends/vectors.htm
26-Sep	Matching	Ch 4, Korfhage
3-Oct	Text Analysis	Ch 5, Korfhage
10-Oct	Text Analysis	Ch 5, Korfhage
		Exercise 2 assigned
17-Oct	Retrieval Evaluation	Ch 8, Korfhage
	Hashing	http://www.serve.net/buz/Notes.1st.year/HTML/C6/rand.001.html
		Read the part on Hashing
24-Oct	Web Search
	Review for mid term
31-Oct	Mid Term Exam
7-Nov	Brief overview of presentations - 5 minutes each
	Please see http://www.ist.psu.edu/faculty_pages/giles/IST497/readings.html for more details.
14-Nov	Student Presentations	Pradeep Terragowda, Mathew Nitish, Cenk Ursavas, Tomie Ventura
21-Nov	Student Presentations	Panandiker Ravi Pai, Ronald Grzywacz, Sean Frantti, Valdimir Belyavskiy, Adam Bak
28-Nov	no class
5-Dec	Student Presentations	Shaw-Ming  Yang, Mark Ruzomberka, Christopher McCoy, Ryan MdFadden, Sean McGettrick
12-Dec	Student Presentations	Daran Becker, Matthew Hughes, Drew Culbert, Laura Milodin, Matthew Stone
16 Dec - 20 Dec	Exam Week - NO EXAM