CIS 550 - Database & Information
Systems, Fall 2008

Location & Time:
Moore 216, Mondays & Wednesdays 4:30-6:00pm
Instructor:
Val Tannen, val@cis , Office
Hours: Mondays 3-4pm or by appointment, Levine 570
TAs: Marie Jacob, majacob@cis ,
Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays
4:30-5:30pm, Levine 575
Rahul Iyer, iyerr@seas
Freya Azad, freyaa@seas
Reilly Grant, rm@seas
Announcements:
- (Dec 8) Old exams are posted here.
- (Dec 5) Final exam date, time, place: December 11 2008, 9AM-11AM, DRLB A8 and DRLB A4.
- (Dec 4) The project demo schedule has been posted here.
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(Oct 27) Midterm solutions and grading guidelines are posted here. A regrade form can be found here.
Distribution of scores can
be found here .
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(Oct 24) Project details have been updated. Please look here.
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(Oct 18) Project milestone dates can be found here.
- (Oct 11) The midterm exam will be held in DRLB A1 on Wednesday October 15 at 4:30pm.
- (Oct 7) The homework 3 deadline has been extended to Friday. Please deliver your homeworks to Marie in Levine 575 by 4:30pm.
- (Oct 6) Rahul and Freya's office hours for tomorrow (Oct 7): 12-1 and 3:30-4:30pm. These will be regular
office hours for the weeks that the homework is due.
- (Oct 2) The final exam will be on Thursday, December 11, 2008 from 9-11AM. Location TBA.
- (Oct 1) The project tutorial session will be held in the Wu&Chen auditorium on Monday, Oct 6th at 6PM.
- (Sept 28) Rahul and Freya's office hours this week: Tuesday 12-1pm and 3:30-4:30pm both in the 5th
floor lobby of Levine (next to the elevators).
- (Sept 27) There will be an optional tutorial session on Monday, October 6th, 2008, at 6PM about
details on starting the term project. Location TBA.
- (Sept 27) The midterm date has been changed to Wednesday,October 15, in class. Location TBA.
- (Sept 23) Submission instructions for homework 2 are posted here
Texts and Supplementary material:
- Ramakrishnan & Gehrke, Database Systems, 3rd
Edition.
- Supplementary material (to be handed out in class)
Course Format & Grading:
- Homeworks (20%)
- Midterm (20%): Wednesday, October 15, in
class
- Final Exam (30%): Thursday, Dec 11, 2008, 9-11AM, DRLB A8 and DRLB A4
- Project (30%)