Your starting point for Internet Information 2005/2006.
Course Organization
Internet Information 2005/2006 is a course at the master's level, worth 6 ECTS, which should keep you busy for 10 hours a week. The course is a mixture of lectures, reading assignments and presentations, and a large group-based project work.
The first lecture is on Monday, February 6, 14:15-17.00 in Room P2.27. During the first half of the course, many of the lab slots (Wednesdays, 9:15-11:00) will be used for student and projecct presentations (in Room P0.17). During the second half of the course the tables are turned, and many of the lecture slots will be used for project-related work.
Lecturers
The course is being taught by Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de Rijke.
Course Material
For each of the 16 weeks of the course, a separate web page has been or will be created, that can be accessed through the navigation bar at the right-hand side. Those pages contain references, slides, and pointers for the appropriate week. In addition, there are three project pages, which will describe, in quite some detail, the aims of the three group-based projects.
The (required) text book for this course is Soumen Chakrabarti, Mining the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
Course Assessment
Assessment will be based on practical work, reading asssignments and presentations, and exams. Project assessments will be partly based on peer and self assessment. More precisely, your final mark will be determined using the following 3 factors:- project based work
- exams (final plus mid-term exams having equal weights)
- reading and presentation
Please note that, following standard University practice, you need to score (at least) a pass-mark (5.5 or more) on each of the above aspects.
Trial mid-term exam questions are available here (pdf).
Results of the mid-term exam: here.
Results of the final exam: here.
Final results of the course: here.