CS 494/594 - Introduction to Data Mining Fall Semester 2007, Section 002

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:40 - 10:55am, Claxton Complex 206

Instructor Office Hours: Tu,Th (8:30-9:30am), CL318 Phone: (865) 974-3838 Teaching Assistants: Matthew Aldridge -- Office Hours: 1-2 Mo, Office: CL121 Phone: (865) 974-4196 Possible online book suppliers for our textbook are: BookFinder4U, Bookpool, Efollet, Chambal, allbookstores.com, and booksprice.com.   Prof. Shih-Lung Shaw from the Department of Geography, UTK will be a guest lecturer on the topic of Spatio-Temporal Clustering on Thursday, Sept. 13. All students are required to write one paragraph summarizing the important issues regarding this context of clustering. This summary is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, Sept 18. On Tuesday, Sept. 18, Dr. Sowmini Varadhan (UTK/CS alumnus) from Sun Microsystems Inc. will discuss career opportunities with Sun (students may bring resumes to lecture and have a follow-up discussion with Dr. Varadhan after lecture).   On Thursday, Oct. 4, Prof. Michael W. Berry will give the Department of Mathematics Colloquim talk entitled Topic Detection and Tracking Using Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Factorizations in Ayres Hall Room 214 at 3:40pm. Refreshments will be served before the talk (at 3:15pm). Click here for more details.   On Tuesday, October 23, Prof. Kenneth Kahn from the Department of Marketing & Logistics in the UT College of Business Administration will lecture on data segmentation. A two-paragraph summary on segmentation strategies and their associated use of data mining is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, Oct. 25. Upcoming (free) MATLAB®/Simulink® sessions: 9:00am-11:30am and 1:00pm-3:30pm on Wednesday, Nov. 7 in Univ. Center Rooms 226-227. Click here to register.   On Thursday, November 1, Mr. Arthur S. (Buddy) Bland will address the class (during the second half of the period) on job opportunities for EECS students in the newly created (and NSF sponsored) National Institute for Computational Science (NICS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.