CS 4624 is about three areas related to Information:
Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access.
Multimedia includes audio/sound, images/photos, video, and text. Hypertext
refers to the WWW and other hypermedia systems. Information Access includes
search engines and their inner workings. There will be discussions of key
works in each of these fields.
Students work on team term projects, in groups of size 2-5. Final
reports and other deliverables from recent project are at:
https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/18655
Projects are selected from a list, or can be proposed by students. Many are
service learning activities, helping local organizations.
There will be roughly 10 other special activities, including field trips
and guest presentations on interesting topics.
Students can utilize resources and facilities of the Digital Library
Research Laboratory as well as the Department of Computer Science and
University IT (including ARC) systems, e.g., for deep learning.
This is a 4000 level capstone course, so senior level work is expected.
Students should be prepared to apply what they have learned in prior courses
to practical problems, and to improve their skills at learning a new field
using primary references as well as some secondary resources.
Students who have focused on any of the CS tracks are welcome! This
course serves as capstone for any of the areas.
Attention to reading, labs, demonstrations, and class discussions is
imperative. Students must demonstrate mastery of a body of knowledge and its
application.