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David W Ward

Search Engine Design 101
Dr. David W. Ward MIT Alumni, Sabine Volkmer
Wed Jan 18, 01-04:00pm, 2-143, Laptop would be useful

No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Some knowledge of Perl would be useful but not essential

Internet search engines are an integral part of the Internet. If you would like to know how they work, then here is your chance. We will write a search engine from scratch using Perl and CGI scripts. Topics covered: Search engine flavors, webcrawling and data mining, Making an index, searching an index with a web interface. Class will be taught by CEO and founder of Piffany, a search engine company.
Web: http://www.piffany.com/iap/iap2006.html
Contact: Dr. David W. Ward, (617) 500-0724, dwward@alum.mit.edu


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