INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2014
Module 14: Monday December 8 to Sunday December 14

Module Checklist

1. View the introductory video for this module.
2. Read the Gurrin et al chapter.
3. View the reading commentary video.
4. View the Search Among Secrets lecture video.
5. View the Preparing for the Final Exam lecture video.
6. Read Project Assignment P14.
7. Watch the exercise explanation video for Project Assignment P14.
8. Complete Project Assignment P14 and submit your results using ELMS.
9. Complete the course evaluation. I will not see evaluation results until after grades have been submitted, but your comments can really help us to improve this course for next time! Course evaluations close on December 14, so please do this by then.
10. Study for the Final Exam!
11. Consider joining one or more of the optional final exam study session ELMS text chats on Friday, Saturday or Sunday at 5:30-6:30 PM.
12. If you want to hear some of the topics in this module presented differently, consider viewing parts of the optional supplementary videos.

Readings

• Introductory Video
  1. Module 14 Introduction (15 minutes) [Prange Collection] [NTCIR] [Minutes of the May 1945 Target Committee Meering]
• Reading Commentary Videos
  1. Comments on Chapter 4 of the Gurrin et al. book. (22 minutes)
• Lecture Videos
  1. Search Among Secrets (25 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture] [Decade of Discovery movie trailer]
  2. Preparing for the Final Exam (12 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
• Additional Required Video
  1. Project Assignment P14 Overview (9 minutes)
• Optional Supplementary Videos
  1. A slick video on Lifeloggers produced by the company that did a Kickstarter campaign as Memoto, which is now the maker of the Narrative Clip automatic camera.
  2. A 2012 talk at Microsoft Research on Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room by David Weinberger.
  3. A 2014 talk at Microsoft Research on The Human Information System: BYOD, Wearable Computing and Imperceptible Electronics by Chris Dancy.
  4. A 2014 talk at UNED in Madrid on Search Among Secrets: Separating the Wheat from the Buzzsaw by Douglas W. Oard.
  5. A 2009 talk at Microsoft Research on Who 'Dat? Identity Resolution in Large Email Collections by Douglas W. Oard.
  6. A 2011 talk at Purdue University on Machine Learning for Discovery in Legal Cases by David D. Lewis.
  7. A free March 2015 Coursera MOOC on Text Retrieval and Search Engines by ChengXiang Zhai at the University of Illinois.

Project Assignment P14