CS561.
Advanced Topics in Database Systems
Searching for
Technical Materials (papers)
- Link: ACM
Digital Library for ACM conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, SOSP) and journals
(e.g., TODS).
- Link: IEEE Xplore for IEEE conferences (e.g.,
ICDE) and journals (e.g., TKDE).
- Link:
Springer LINK for Springer and Kluwer publications (e.g., Lecture Notes
in Computer Science).
- Link:
USENIX Events for USENIX conferences (e.g., OSDI).
- Link:
Michael Ley's DBLP bibliography server for a comprehensive computer
science bibliography containing links to on-line papers for many
conferences and journals (e.g., VLDB).
Note: WPI
subscribes to the ACM DIGITAL LIBRARIES and thus has the online
versions of most journals and conferences of IEEE and ACM. The above
list is just a sample. So go and dig in, and select papers on topics
that really excite you.
Supporting Material and Links
- Relational Databases and SQL
- Hadoop and Higher-Level Languages
- Hadoop is available here
- Apache Pig Langauge is available here
- Hive Langauge is available here
- Jaql Langauge is available here
Tips for Good Presentations
In addition to the points highlighted in Grading page,
here are some links for useful tips (Remember that in the course, you
are not giving a job talk. So, do not feel pressure, you just practice
and develop this skill during the course):