2020-08-25: Seven WS-DL classes offered for Fall 2020

https://xkcd.com/2347/

A record seven courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered in Fall 2020.  Because of Covid-19, most of these classes will either be completely on-line or offered in a hybrid on-line / f2f option.  Check with the instructor to verify how the class will be conducted.

• CS 418/518 Web Programming, Dr. Jian Wu, Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45.
  Topics: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub 
• CS 432/532 Web Science, Dr. Michele C. Weigle, asynchronous. 
  Topics: Python, R, D3, ML, and IR. 
• CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, Web PLE. Tuesdays 4:30-5:30pm (recitation).
  Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML
• CS 625 Data Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle, Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45.
  Topics: Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Data Types, Maps, Colors, Tables
• CS 795/895 Mining Scholarly Big Data, Dr. Jian Wu, Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30-10:45.
  Topics: Apache Spark, NLP, Data Mining, Recommenders
• CS 795/895 Natural Language Processing, Dr. Vikas Ashok, Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15.
  Topics: Language Models, Word2Vec, BERT, Deep Learning, Assistants
• CS 795/895 Web Archiving Forensics, Dr. Michael L. Nelson, Thursdays 4:20-7.
  Topics: Memento, CDX, Twitter, Caching

In addition to the WS-DL courses listed above, Dr. Weigle will also be teaching CS 312 Internet Concepts and Dr. Jayarathna will also be teaching CS 450/550 Database Concepts.  Dr. Poursardar will be teaching CS 150 & CS 250.

The Spring 2021 semester is still undecided, but the following courses are likely:

• CS 432/532 Web Science, Dr. Michele C. Weigle
• CS 480/580 Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Vikas Ashok
• CS 495/595 Web Security, Dr. Michael L. Nelson
• CS 725/825 Info Vis, Dr. Michele C. Weigle
• CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Jian Wu
• CS 795/895 Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Dr. Sampath Jayarathna

Previous course offerings: S20, F19, S19, and F18.

--Michael