August 26, 2017 alawinia

CIS 450-550, Database and Information Systems

 

Location

 

 Section 401, Monday/Wednesday 12-1:30 pm, Berger Auditorium

Section 402, Tuesday/Thursday 9-10:30 am, Moore 216
Office Hours 612 Levine 5-7pm Mondays-Thursdays (except 9/26, 27 when they will be 6-8pm)
Syllabus  https://alawini.com/teaching/cis450-550/cis-450-550-syllabus/

 

Instructor for Section 401

 Instructor for Section 402
   

 Professor Susan Davidson  susan@cis.upenn.edu

 Location: 566 Levine Hall North

Office hours: Wed. 1:30-3 (starting 9/6/2017)

  

Dr. Abdu Alawini
alawini@seas.upenn.edu

Location: 571 Levine Hall North

 Office hours: TBD

Teaching Assistants:

Boyi He
boyihe@seas.upenn.edu

  

Yingjie Luan
yingjiel@seas.upenn.edu

 

Yizhou(YeeJoe) Luo
luoyiz@seas.upenn.edu

  

Hari Parameswaran
harip@seas.upenn.edu

 

Shivendra Pandey
pshiv@seas.upenn.edu

  

Sahana Vijaya Prasad
vijayapr@seas.upenn.edu

Animesh Shah
animeshm@seas.upenn.edu

  

Surabhi Suresh
surabhis@seas.upenn.edu

 

Yinjun Wu
wuyinjun@seas.upenn.edu

  

Lanqing Yang
lanqingy@seas.upenn.edu

 

Jie (Andy) Chen

chenjr@seas.upenn.edu

 

Course description Structured information is the lifeblood of commerce, government, and science today. This course provides an introduction to the broad field, covering a range of topics relating to structured data, ranging from data modeling to logical foundations and popular languages, to system implementations. We will study the theory of relational data design; the basics of query languages; efficient storage of data, execution of queries and query optimization; transactions and updates; and “big data” and NoSQL systems.
Topics covered Database design, relational algebra, query languages (SQL, XQuery), data import and munging, views, indexing, transactions, query optimization, client-side & server-side Web development, Map/Reduce and NoSQL systems.
Format The format is two 1.5-hour lectures per week, plus assigned readings. There will be regular homework assignments, plus a team project, a midterm and a final.
Prerequisites For Penn undergrads and submatriculants: CIS 121.

For MCIT students: CIT 592 and 594.

For other Master’s students: programming experience and mathematical maturity equivalent to the above.
Texts and readings
Grading and policies Homework 20%, Project 25%, Class Participation 5%

Midterm 20%,  Final 30%

Collaboration on homework assignments will be allowed. Copying from the Web or from students who have taken the class in previous years will NOT be allowed.

All homework should be submitted to Canvas by its due date and time. After this it will be considered late.   Late homeworks should be submitted by Monday at 11:59pm if it was due on a Friday, and will only count for half credit.  After this point, homework will no longer be accepted.  Everyone is allowed one free late homework without loss of credit.

Cheating on the midterm or final will be rewarded with an “F” for the class.
Other resources

Web Links

Potentially Useful Downloads

These are only necessary if you want to download software to run on your home machine. The CIS department servers and labs have Galax, Eclipse, Tomcat, and MySQL installed.