Scribd
Upload
89 views

Welcome To Cs 511, Advanced Database Management!: Instructor: Chengxiang ("Cheng") Zhai

This document provides information about the CS 511 Advanced Database Management course. It introduces the instructor, ChengXiang Zhai, and provides office hours and contact information. It lists recommended textbooks and informs students that all course materials will be available online. Additional administrative details are provided, including information about the TA, Yoonkyong Lee, and encouragement for students to use the class newsgroup to discuss course content and projects. The document outlines the course objectives to introduce milestone achievements in database research, survey technologies enabling modern database systems, and explore new challenges and limitations of the relational data model.

Uploaded by

sudha_scampy
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
89 views

Welcome To Cs 511, Advanced Database Management!: Instructor: Chengxiang ("Cheng") Zhai

This document provides information about the CS 511 Advanced Database Management course. It introduces the instructor, ChengXiang Zhai, and provides office hours and contact information. It lists recommended textbooks and informs students that all course materials will be available online. Additional administrative details are provided, including information about the TA, Yoonkyong Lee, and encouragement for students to use the class newsgroup to discuss course content and projects. The document outlines the course objectives to introduce milestone achievements in database research, survey technologies enabling modern database systems, and explore new challenges and limitations of the relational data model.

Uploaded by

sudha_scampy
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

Welcome to CS 511,

Advanced Database Management!

Instructor: ChengXiang (Cheng) Zhai, czhai@cs

2116 Siebel
Office hours: Wed 8:30-10:00, Fri 3:30-4:30 (right after class)
Won't have office hour today

Home page: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa06/cs511/


Texts and readings:
All papers will be available online (linked to the schedule
page)
Recommended textbook: Hellerstein and Stonebraker:
Readings in Database Systems, 4th ed. (often called the Red
Book)

More Administrative
Information
TA
Yoonkyong Lee (also the I2CS TA)
Office hours: Tue 8-9pm; Thu 1-2pm

Take advantage of the newsgroup class.cs511


Discuss course content, homework, project ideas,
etc

Slides
Integrated from those of AnHai Doan and Kevin
Chang
Will try to have them posted before each lecture
2

Course Objectives
Introduce the classic milestones in database
research
How many Turing Awards were given to DB researchers?
For what contributions?
What are the key technologies that have enabled a
modern commercial database system to have such
widespread applications?

Survey the current trends in database research


Databases seem to be quite mature now, so why is
database still an active research field?
What is the limitation of the relational data model?
What are some new challenges to solve?
3

You might also like