Computer Science 435
Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery

Outline of remaining topics and Student presentation suggesions


Part 1: topics in information retrieval and manipulation  -- yet to come:

Indexing and Searching
Guest lecture on shape retrieval:  Prof. Funkhouser

Part 2: topics in document similarity and information discovery

Introduction to data mining
Document similarity
Clustering
Recommender Systems

Part 3: systems issues in delivering digital information

Web crawling.
Web caching and prefetching
Content distribution networks
Publish-subscribe systems if time


Student presentations -- sample topics:

different methods for anything we covered
music information retrieval
image information retrieval
video information retrieval
content-based retrieval on peer-to-peer systems
mining data streams
data visualization
information delivery for "low-bandwidth" devices (e.g. handhelds)