ENGR 654: Information Systems Principles

Department of Computer and Information Science
The University of Mississippi

Announcements

• The schedule has been posted.
• James pointed out the following web page that has detailed instructions for using BibTeX: http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~billups/courses/ma5779/annotated_bibliography. If you prefer to use pdf instead of postscript, you can probably replace the "dvips" command with "pdflatex". More information about LaTeX and BibTeX, including downloads, is available at http://www.latex-project.org/.
• First critique on Principles of Dataspaces due Tuesday, January 29th. See the list of papers below.
• For Thursday, January 24th, read the paper From Databases to Dataspaces: A New Abstraction for Information Management, by Franklin, Halevy, Maier, SIGMOD Record, December 2005. We'll critique it in class that day.
• I posted some ideas to help writing your critiques
• The papers should now have restricted access. Use the username "student" and password "abc123" to gain access.
• First class is Thursday, January 17th.
• This is a seminar course. There is no textbook.

Tentative list of papers (restricted access)

Schedule

Homework

1. Homework 1. Due Thursday, January 31, 2008