Course Objective

CMPSCI 446 is an undergraduate-level course in search engines and in Information Retrieval, the the science and engineering of indexing, organizing, searching, and making sense of unstructured or mostly unstructured information, particularly text. The class provides an overview of the important issues in information retrieval, and how those issues affect the design and implementation of search engines. The course emphasizes the technology used in Web search engines, and the information retrieval theories and concepts that underlie all search applications. Mathematical experience (as provided by CMPSCI 240) is required.

My Responsibility

• Host weekly office hour and be accessible for students in many forms, such as responding piazza in short time
• Prepare and design the programming assignment and exam to help student have a better understanding of the concept
• Grade homework and exam