Teaching

Courses and Descriptions

Current and upcoming courses:

• No courses scheduled for 2012-13 academic year (I am on sabbatical)

Previous courses:

• Spring 2012: MKSE 150, Market and Social Systems on the Internet.
• Fall 2011: CIS 550, Database and Information Systems
• Spring 2011: MKSE 150, Market and Social Systems on the Internet, with Sampath Kannan.
• Fall 2010: CIS 399/002 (MKSE 212 pilot offering), Scalable and Cloud Computing, with Andreas Haeberlen.
• Spring 2010: CIS 555, Internet and Web Systems.
• Spring 2009: CIS 455/555, Internet and Web Systems.
• Fall 2008: CIS 650, Implementing Data Management Systems.
• Spring 2008: CIS 455/555, Internet and Web Systems.
• Fall 2007: CIS 550, Database Management Systems.
• Fall 2007: Systems Lunch (with Milo Martin).
• Spring 2007: CSE 455/CIS 555, Internet and Web Systems.
• Spring 2006: CSE 455/CIS 555, Internet and Web Systems.
• Spring 2006: Systems Lunch (with E Lewis, Milo Martin).
• Spring 2006: DB-IR-ML Reading Group (with Fernando Pereira, Lyle Ungar, Val Tannen).
• Fall 2005: Great Works in Systems seminar, with E Lewis, Milo Martin.
• Fall 2005: CIS 550, Database Management Systems.
• Spring 2005: CIS 650, Implementation of Data Management Systems.
• Spring 2005: CIS 700-5 Systems seminar, Sensor Networks (with E Lewis).
• Fall 2004: CIS 550, Database Management Systems.
• Fall 2004: CIS 700-4 Systems seminar, Machine Virtualization (with E Lewis, Honghui Lu, Milo Martin, Amir Roth, Steve Zdancewic).
• Spring 2004: CSE 455, Internet and Web Systems.
• Spring 2004: CIS 700-6 Systems seminar, Internet-Scale, Self-Organizing Distributed Computing (with E Lewis, Honghui Lu).
• Fall 2003: CIS 550, Introduction to Database Management Systems.
• Spring 2003: CIS 650, Advanced Topics in Databases, focusing on Data Sharing and the Web.
• Summer 1998 (U. Washington): CSE 142, Introduction to Programming.

Course Information

CIS 455/555 focuses on the fundamentals of serving and sharing information in an Internet and Web world. We examine remote procedure calls and web services; application servers and middleware; XML as a mechanism for exhanging information; and keyword search and retrieval of documents. There is a substantial group implementation project to reinforce the fundamentals and to provide experience with real-world technologies.

CIS 550 teaches the fundamentals of database design, querying, and data modeling (for relational, object-oriented, and XML data), and it will also cover the basic architecture and implementation of databases. The goals of the course are (1) to provide a working knowledge of database usage and (2) to provide a basic foundation for doing research in the database field. The course textbook is Database Management Systems by Ramakrishnan and Gehrke, and there is a term project.

CIS 650 investigates how database systems are designed and implemented in today's web-based world. The course is mostly oriented around reading landmark and state-of-the-art research papers, and we will cover relational and XML query processing and indexing, transaction management, concurrency control, distribution, and many other issues.