For the practical work, the count now is at ten groups but if students have not submitted their proposals to all teachers, we may have missed some. Groups are visible in the Email/Group section of this TeleTOP-site. Group J doesn't exist to avoid confusion with group I, which does exist; Group O doesn't exist because the difference between “Oh” and zero is small.
[Information Retrieval]: The practical work has started
Today, the assignments were discussed. Groups of two students should choose an assignment and send an e-mail to the teachers with their plan before the next week (22nd of November). If you want to work on a custom project, make sure you get permission. The plan should contain:
- Names of the group members
- Chosen assignment
- Approach and timeline
- (Optionally, if you come up with your own assignment: a project description)
For a project guide, see the TeleTOP Roster section.
[Advanced Databases]: GIS Project presentations: Friday 27 October at 13.45 h.
GIS Project presentations at 13.45 h. in WA-204
An overview of the Advanced Database Systems Project Results
with the following presentations:
“The GIS project demo”
by Yoran Bosman, Pieter van den Brink, and Corneel Hindriks
“Beyond Roermond”
by Marten Sijtema and Jan-Henk Gerritsen
[Information Retrieval]: Guest lecture by Arjen de Vries
Arjen de Vries from CWI Amsterdam will give a guest lecture on Multimedia Retrieval.
Where: Langezijds 1812.
When: 25 October 2006, 13.45 h. – 15.30 h.
What: Multimedia Retrieval
[Information Retrieval]: Guest lecture by Gilad Mishne
Gilad Mishne from the University of Amsterdam will give a guest lecture on Blog Retrieval.
Where: Langezijds 1812.
When: 18 October 2006, 13.45 h. – 15.30 h.
What: Blog Retrieval
[Advanced Databases]: Dead line for prepared presentation approaching
Tomorrow, Tuesday 24 October, is the dead line for sending in the prepared presentations (including e.g. a Powerpoint slide show) of about half an hour. The next day, on Wednesday 25 October, I will announce the lucky winners that will be asked to give the presentation to all of us on Friday 27 October.
TSR: Emphasis on exceptional academic efforts
We are doing too little as a university for our excellent students. Students with difficulties may expect a lot of attention from lecturers and BOZ (the educational bureau). Excellent student get a high grade, that's it. The academic climate on campus in more and more looking like that of a High School.
The idea for an academic student journal at the University of Twente was born in the autumn of 2005, when a small group of students was discussing original ways to improve the academic climate on campus. They felt that more emphasis should be put on exceptional academic efforts. Student should have the will to excel and be proud of their work. When realizing that many interesting scholar activities by students only lead to an inches thick report, they decided a peer-reviewed journal would be of tremendous added value to the student community and could foster existing and potential academic talents to flourish. Check out the TSR Web Site[Advanced Databases]: Example Results Practicum now on TeleTOP
The example results for the mini practicum Advanced Database Systems can now be found on TeleTOP under 'Archive'.
[Information Retrieval]: Guest lecture by Wessel Kraaij (TNO-ICT) Wednesday 4 October, 13.45 h. in LA-1812
Title: The evaluation of information retrieval systems by Wessel Kraaij (TNO-ICT) Wednesday 4 October, 13.45 hour in LA-1812 This lecture provides the tools and methodology for comparing the effectiveness of two or more information retrieval systems in a meaningful way. Several aspects of information retrieval systems can be evaluated without consulting the potential users or customers of the system, such as for instance the query processing time (measured for instance in miliseconds per query) or the query throughput (measured for instance as the number of queries per second). This lecture, however, focuses on aspects of the system that in uence the quality of the retrieved results. In order to measure the quality of search results, one must at some point consult the potential user of the system. For, what are the correct results for the query “black jaguar”? Cars, or cats? Ultimately, the user has to decide….
[Advanced Databases]: The GIS Project has started
The GIS project assignment can be found on TeleTOP under 'Archive'. Please form groups of 2 – 3 persons and email me before 4 October 2006 the following information:
- the persons in the group
- what assignment will the group do: subproject A or subproject B?
Dead line of the project: 24 October 2006. Project end presentations are scheduled on Friday 27 October 2006 at 5/6 hour.