Announcements from the Instructor

Csci 8715, Spatial Databases, Spring 2004.

May 4th, 2004 :
1. Course evaluation is moving to a web-based system. Please see details in the email. Visit link to provide feedback on Csci 8705.
April 27th, 2004 :
1. Group project presentation schedule follows:
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Tu. 4/27 - G1 on privacy, G2 on outlier detection, G3 on privacy
Th. 4/29 - G4 on indexing, G6 on outliers, G7 on spatial join
Tu. 5/4 - G5 on association, G8 on Taxi-routing
Tu. 5/6 - G9 on Decision Trees, G10 on Routing, G11 on Data Model
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2. Each group should plan a 20-minute presentation followed by a 5-minute discussion session. Given that an average speaker spends 2 minutes on an average slide, consider preparing about 10 to 12 slides. You may use the same outline that we used to present papers in the reading list.
3. Two interesting workshop exploring next generation internet with spatial awareness are coming up this summer:
  - Geographic Information Retrieval : email announcement
  - Geographic Hypermedia: web page , email announcement ,
April 16th, 2004 :
1. Selected talks from congressional breakfast in Feb. 2004 on GIS and Homeland Defense may be discussed on Thursday 4/22/04.
2. An interesting talk at the National Press Club on mapping the news is coming up on May 14th. This will be part of the mapping the news conference on May 14th and 15th for news organizations.
April 16th, 2004 :
1. Feedback on project draft are published now. Please read the general comments as well as comments specific to your projects.
April 15th, 2004 :
1. A revised review form is available. You are welcome to but not required to use it.
2. There is an interesting seminar on privacy issues in ubiquitous computing on April 16th, 2004.

April 13th, 2004 :

Peer-review assignments are as follows:

Group G1's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G2, G3.
Group G2's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G6, G8.
Group G3's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G1, G11.
Group G4's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G5, G6.
Group G5's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G4, G9.
Group G6's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G2, G9.
Group G7's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G4, G10.
Group G8's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G1, G10.
Group G9's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G5, G11.
Group G10's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G7, G8.
Group G11's project is peer-reviewed by Groups G3, G7.

April 7th, 2004 :
1. Solutions to the mid-term examination is available from this link.
April 5th, 2004 :
1. Intelligence community is organizing two workshops this summer for graduate students. Please review the detail and consider applying to the program of your interest.
March. 30th, 2004 :
1. Feedback on project proposal (P4, P5) is available now from Instructor's feedback link.
March. 23rd, 2004 :
1. A compiled collection of questions from various group is published. Please use links 1 and 2 next to "Sample Questions" on the main page. Latest version of this list is available from TA-announcements .
2. The syllabus for the mid-term exam include the first four chapters in the book as well as two papers on hierarchical routing and colocations.
Feb. 24th, 2004 :
1. Schedule page has been revised to reflect the revised dates for the mid-term examination, homeworks 3 and 4.
2. Note that the mid-term examination is rescheduled to 3/25/04.
3. Revised schedule page also contains the schedule for paper presentation by various groups.
Feb. 17th, 2004 :
1. Instructor's feedback on the paper review part of homework 1 is published now. The comments apply to the paper write as well. Use this feedback along with the feedback from your peers to revise the paper review draft.
2. The paper presentations will start in the week 6. Groups G10 and G9 are requested to stop by and discuss schedule of their presentation with the instructor at their earliest convenience. Papers of their choice cover topics scheduled for discussion in weeks 6 and 7.
Feb. 10th, 2004 :
1. Raju Vatsavai will be visiting today to talk about the projects related to mapserver public domain software.
2. You will not be grade on the draft report and slides on the paper. Please do publish the draft to facilitate peer review.
3. Peer review assignments will be published later today on he "groups" page.
Feb. 8th, 2004 :
1. Projects are one per group. Members within a group will work together on the project.
2. You are expected to turn in a draft of your slides (powerpoint or pdf are fine) and writeup this week. This draft will enable peer review feedback. The final version is due with homework 3 in a couple of weeks.
3. More details of the Map-server project presented by Ranga Raju Vatsavai are available from the following links:
  If you plan to work on an implementation project related to the mapserver system, please contact Raju at vatsavai@cs.umn.edu
Jan. 30th, 2004 :
1. The group information is published now.
2. The papers to be presented by each group is indicated in the list of paper in bold font.
3. The papers for peer review are not assigned yet. The groups pages simply shows the papers each group wanted to review. Some of these papers have not been picked by group for presentation. I will assign the peer review assignment by week 4.
Jan. 29th, 2004 :
1. Tuesday 2/3 lecture will be taught by Baris Kazar, a senior Ph.D. student in spatial database group. The lecture will cover first half of chapter 3 from the textbook.
2. Thursday 2/5 lecture will be taught by Prof. Loren Terveen from the Department of Computer Science. The lecture will discuss the issues at the intersection of spatial databases (e.g. location sensors, GPS), human computer interfaces, and social spaces.
Jan. 27th, 2004 :
1. The list of papers has been updated by Baris Kazar to include links.
Jan. 19th, 2004 :
1. Overrides are available for students interested in joining Csci 8715. Please contact computer science reception for magic numbers.
2. IEEE Computer Society recently sent faculty members an email to encourage student memberships. I became a member of IEEE Computer Society in first year of graduate studies and have enjoyed it greatly. It is highly recommeded. Student membership details are available at http://computer.org/students and relevant forms are available at http://computer.org/join .
3. Students in interested in focussing their work on spatial databases should also consider joining the University Consortium on Geographic Information Systems . It has a variety of student activities including a summer assembly focussing on tutorial on latest topics and presentations of research papers by students.