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Jennifer Widom
Fletcher
Jones Professor
Department Chair, Computer Science
Stanford University
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I've twice offered a version of my
introductory database class free to students worldwide: The 2011
offering was one of three inaugural Stanford public courses that fateful
fall, launching the "MOOC madness" going strong today. It was
hosted on a student-built platform that was a precursor to
Coursera. The second offering was January-March 2013, hosted on
Stanford's home-built Class2Go platform. Here's a blog I
was invited to write about the 2011 offering, and here are the
results of a volunteer
student survey toward the end of the 2011 course.
All materials
from the public course offerings -- lectures with in-video quizzes, multiple-choice quiz assignments, automatically-checked interactive programming exercises, midterm and final exams, optional additional exercises with solutions, and pointers to readings and resources -- are available indefinitely in
self-study mode. The materials are hosted on Class2Go here and
Coursera here, and are identical on the two platforms.
Jennifer Widom is the Fletcher Jones Professor and Chair of the
Computer Science Department at Stanford University. She received
her Bachelor's degree from the Indiana University School of
Music in 1982 and her Computer Science Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 1987. She was a Research Staff Member at the IBM
Almaden Research Center before joining the Stanford faculty in
1993. Her research interests span many aspects of nontraditional
data management. She is an ACM Fellow and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts
& Sciences; she received the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd
Innovations Award in 2007 and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2000;
she has served on a variety of program committees, advisory
boards, and editorial boards. Complete
CV here
- Address: Department of Computer
Science, Gates Building 4A, Stanford University, Stanford,
CA 94305-9040
Phone: 650-723-9745 (chair's office, mornings),
650-723-7690 (regular office, afternoons); Fax: 650-725-2588
Email: widom@cs.stanford.edu
Administrator: Marianne Siroker,
siroker@cs.stanford.edu, 650-723-0872
Chair's Assistant: Charlotte Marquez,
cmarquez@cs.stanford.edu, 650-725-1430
Office: Gates Building #276 (mornings) and #422
(afternoons); directions
- Weekly
schedule
- Fall quarter course: CS145 -
Introduction to Databases
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Publications (or use the InfoLab publication server)
- Stanford InfoLab
home page (formerly the Database Group)
Stanford Computer
Science Department home page
Current projects
- GPS: A
Large-Scale Graph Processing System
- Scoop: The
Stanford - Santa-Cruz Project for Cooperative Computing with
Algorithms, Data, and People
Past projects
- LORE: A
database management system for XML
- Panda: A
System for Provenance and Data
- RAMP:
A Hadoop Extension for Provenance Support
- STREAM:
STanford stREam dAta Manager
- TRAPP:
Tradeoff in Replication Precision and Performance
- Trio: A
DBMS for integrated management of data, accuracy, and lineage
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WHIPS: Building and maintaining data warehouses
- WSMS: A Web
Service Management System
- WSQ/DSQ
(pronounced "wisk-disk"): Integrating database queries and Web
searches.
Current Ph.D students
Graduated Ph.D. students
