CSE 490I: Advanced Internet Systems
Winter 2001
Oren Etzioni

Announcements

• Congratulations everyone on the great commitment and performance in this course!

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Course materials

• Preliminary syllabus
• Lecture slides
  1. Introduction
  2. Networking Fundamentals (guest lecture)
  3. HTTP and Server Basics (~650KB)
  4. Spiders and Search Engine Architecture
  5. Learning and Classification Algorithms (handed out in class)
  6. Search Engines and Information Retrieval
  7. Clustering
  8. Basics of Databases
  9. Database Implementation (guest lecture)
  10. Information Aggregation and Its Applications (~500KB)
  11. MetaCrawler (guest lecture)
  12. XML
  13. Consistency and Availability for Large-scale Applications (~500KB) (guest lecture)
  14. E-Commerce
  15. Cryptographic Primitives (guest lecture)
  16. Distributed Application Network: Where the Internet and Distributed Computing Converge (guest lecture)
• Projects
  1. Crawling the Web
  2. Adding Scalability to Crawlers
  3. Adding Web Interfaces to Crawled Data
  4. Final Project Presentations
• Readings (by topic)
  • Historical Perspective
  • Networking Essentials
  • Web Crawlers and Spiders
  • Web Search Engines
  • Learning to Classify Web Sites
  • Clustering Documents
  • SQL Basics
  • XML
  • Scalable Systems
  • Computer Security
• Helpful links
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • Download Adobe Acrobat Reader to view lecture slides in PDF format
• Message archive