Rationale:

Effective collection, analysis, and maintenance of data is key to achieve rapid progress in almost all disciplines of science and engineering. In this course we will cover the core principles and techniques of data and information management. The potential topics covered in class include processing and optimization of declarative queries, transactions, crash recovery, self-tuning database systems, data stream systems, information retrieval and Web data management (e.g., Internet search engines like Google), and data mining. The course materials will be drawn from textbooks as well as recent research literature.