2023-08-23: Six WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2023

https://xkcd.com/2494/

Six courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Fall 2023.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. 

• CS 418/518 Web Programming, Dr. Jian Wu, Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:15
  Topics: LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub   
  
• CS 433/533 Web Security, Dr. Michael L. Nelson, Web, Wednesdays 4:20-7 
  Topics: HTTP, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Same Origin Policy, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Fingerprinting, Denial-of-service, Phishing.
  
• CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, Web, Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:45-7
  Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab.
  
• CS 625 Data Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle, Tuesdays & Thursdays 11-12:15
  Topics: Tableau, R, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling  
• CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing, Dr. Vikas Ashok, Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:30-2:45  
  Topics: Language Models, Parsing, Word Embedding, Machine Translation, Text Simplification, Text Summarization, Question Answering
• CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Jian Wu, Tuesdays 5:45-8:25 
  Topics: crawling, ranking, query processing, retrieval models, evaluation, clustering, machine learning. 

In addition to the WS-DL courses listed above, Dr. Ashok will also be teaching CS 450/550.  Non-WSDL members Dr. Yi He and Dr. Ashok Kumar Veerasamy will be also teaching sections of CS 620 and CS 625, respectively.  Dr. Faryaneh Poursardar had planned to teach CS 432/532 this semester, but since she moved to VMASC, she will be focusing primarily on research and will not be regularly teaching.  

 The Spring 2024 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 732/832 HCI, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna 
  
• CS 725/825 Information Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle
• CS 795/895 Fundamentals of Deep Learning, Dr. Jian Wu

Dr. Michael L. Nelson will not be teaching in Spring 2024.

Previous course offerings: S23, F22, S22, F21, S21, F20, S20, F19, S19, and F18.

 

--Michael