Note: CS912 will probably be offered the next time in Fall 2004. The course will contain a mix of material on web performance and on search engines, and will also be open to advanced undergraduates with strong academic record. For more information on the Fall 2004 offering, see here.

Course Offerings:

CS912: Web Protocols, Principles, and Applications:

This is a new graduate course on the technical foundations of the WWW, which is also open to advanced undergraduate students upon permission by the instructor. See the course page from the current offering for details.

CS912: Information Retrieval on The World Wide Web:

This is a graduate course on Web Search Technology, offered about once a year. It is also open to advanced undergraduate students upon permission by the instructor. The course covers the basics of search engine architecture, crawling, compression, indexing, and querying, as well as recent research on link analysis, ranking, web data mining, and related issues. See also the official course description.

CATT Short Course: Web Search Engines and Search Technology:

This one-day short course, offered periodically through the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) at Polytechnic University, gives a basic introduction into the architecture of web search tools and their internal workings, and provides a quick overview of recent academic research in the area. Check the CATT Homepage for future offerings, or send email to suel@poly.edu for inquiries.