6.Completed
coursework covering:
7.
•digital
vs. analog representations and computation
•number
systems (decimal, binary, octal, hexadecimal)
•algorithms
vs. heuristics
•data
flow vs. flow of control
•data
structures (named vs. anonymous; static vs. dynamic)
•models
of computation
•object
orientation (encapsulation, object identity, etc.)
•computational
complexity
•boolean
and relational algebras
•unstructured
IR query forms
•information
retrieval models (boolean, vector, etc.)
•lexical
analysis and term-weighting methods
•application
of similarity measures to texts
•IR
effectiveness measures (recall, precision, etc.)
•subject
searching vs. citation searching vs. hypermedia navigation
•metadata
standards and protocols (e.g., RDF)
(proposed pre-requisites provided by Dave Dubin)