2018-08-25: Four WS-DL Classes Offered for Fall 2018

Four WS-DL classes are offered for Fall 2018:

•  CS 418/518 Web Programming is taught by Dr. Justin Brunelle, Tuesdays 4:20-7pm.  This class teaches LAMP, the original web programming stack. Even if you end up using MEAN, you still need to know LAMP.
• CS 431/531 Web Server Design is taught by Dr. Michael L. Nelson, Wednesdays 4:20-7pm.  This class teaches REST, the primary architectural style for web programming, via implementing a fully functional web server from scratch.  
• CS 795/895 Intro to Data Science is taught by Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 5:45-7pm.  This course will cover Python, machine learning, NumPy, pandas, and general data wrangling. 
• CS 795/895 Mining Scholarly Big Data is taught by Dr. Jian Wu, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-10:45am.  This course will cover machine learning, data mining, deep learning, as applied to the corpus of scholarly communication (via Dr. Wu's involvement in the CiteSeerX project).

Dr. Michele C. Weigle is not teaching this semester.

Our current plan for courses in Spring 2019 is to offer a record five WS-DL courses:

• CS 432/532 Web Science, Alexander Nwala
• CS 725/825 Information Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle
• CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Jian Wu
• CS 795/895 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Dr. Sampath Jayarathna
• CS 795/895 Web Archiving Forensics, Dr. Michael L. Nelson

Note that CS 418, 431, and 432 all count for the CS Web Programming minor.  

--Michael