Instructor:
Luis von Ahn (WeH 4121)
Office Hours:
Monday 4-5pm
Teachin' Assistants:
Edith Law (WeH 8301)
Office Hours:
Tuesday 4:30-5:30pm

Bren Meeder (WeH 5100)
Office Hours:

Reading:
The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell
Grading:
  • 45% Homework
  • 30% 2 in-class exams
  • 15% Final
  • 10% Class Participation

    The lowest homework grade will be dropped.
    • 15-396 Science of the Web
    Fall 2008, TTH 3:00-4:20, HH B103
     
    New: Required Homework Survey:
     
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    08.26 Overview Homework 1
    08.28 Networks I: Centrality and Prestige  
    09.02 Networks II: Structural Balance Homework 2 (Solutions)
    09.04 Networks III: Diffusion of Innovation  
    09.09 Identity and Privacy I Homework 3
    09.11 Identity and Privacy II  
    09.16 Revolts and Thresholds  
    09.18 No Class  
    09.23 Midterm 1 (Practice Problems, Additional Practice from Cornell Class)  
    09.25 Preliminaries of Game Theory  
    09.30 Auctions Homework 4 (solutions)
    10.02 Network Traffic  
    10.07 Sponsored Search Homework 5 (solutions)
    10.09 Web Search I  
    10.14 Web Search II Homework 6 (solutions)
    10.16 Recommendation Systems  
    10.21 Voting and Aggregation  
    10.23 Review  
    10.28 Midterm Exam 2  
    10.30 Wikipedia Melee  
    11.04 P2P Homework 7
    11.06 Watermarking, Copyright and DRM  
    11.11 No Class  
    11.13 CAPTCHAs  
    11.18 Content Aggregation Homework 8
    11.20 Technologies II  
    11.25 So, you wanna start a company? Homework 9
    11.27 No Class, THANKSGIVING!  
    12.02 Epilogue  
    12.04 FINAL EXAM  

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