FYS 102A

Assignment 2

In class exercise - Due: Tues, 2/13 by 3:45 PM

Part 1 - The Voting Problem

  1. Which center and lab at UMBC is working on the voting problem ?
  2. What do you think will be the topic of the talk ?
  3. Who do you think will present the material ?

Part 2 - Sources of Information

Use the list of references from Sandor's StreetSmart paper to begin investigating sources of information.
His paper has a lot of sources, some of which are standard for this discipline.
  1. What is the ACM ?
  2. What does the acronym "SIG" represent ?
  3. List the current ACM SIGs and give the topic to which each corresponds.
    Hint: There are a lot.
  4. What is IEEE, which is pronounced I triple E ?
  5. What is IEEE Transactions ?

Part 3 - Conferences

  1. Where is SIGIR holding their conference this year ?
    When is it being held ?
  2. Where is SIGGRAPH holding their conference this year ?
    When is it being held ?
  3. Where is SIGMOD holding their conference this year ?
    When is it being held ?

Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 13:45:04 EST