Course Schedule

Week Day Description Readings Notes
1 8/22 intro interest survey slides
1 8/24 data acquisition basics Strategies for Sound Internet Measurement slides
2 8/29 sound reasoning read first: Falutsos et al.
read second: Willinger et al.
Homework 1 due
2 8/31 privacy concerns Netflix deanonymization slides
3 9/5 Labor day, no classes    
3 9/7 (meeting rescheduled)    
4 9/12 Finding and fitting distributions optional reading: Clauset et al. food for thought
Homework 2 released
4 9/14 First “student” presentation Re:Captchas Presenter: Prof. Kanich
5 9/19 Collecting and using urban geo-spatial data Chen et al.
O’Mahony and Shmoys
 
5 9/21 Opportunistic measurements Casado et al.  
6 9/26 Inferring Externalities Rao and Reiley
Cohen et al.
 
6 9/28     Taha Khan presenting
Project proposal due 9/30
7 10/3 Student project pitches    
7 10/5     Atiya Avery presenting
Homework 2 due Friday 10/7
8 10/10     Nasim Mobasheri presenting
8 10/12     Ben Drolet presenting
9 10/17     Jennifer Jesuraj presenting
9 10/19     Atiya Avery presenting
10 10/24 IMC 2016 papers leaked credentials
app privacy implications
Taha Khan presenting presenting
10 10/26     Sara Amini presenting
11 10/31     Anthony Perritano presenting
11 11/2     Sara Amini presenting
12 11/7     Jennifer Jesuraj presenting
12 11/9     Anthony Perritano presenting
13 11/14     Nasim Mobasheri presenting
13 11/16   developer behavior via open source repositories
mining unstructured data in software repositories
Ben Drolet presenting
14 11/21 Nasim final presentation    
14 11/23 Anthony and Taha final presentations    
15 11/28 Atiya and Sara final presentations    
15 11/30 Ben and Jennifer final presentations