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• Homework assignments: list homework and projects, list of additional papers to be reviewed and presented
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• List of Websites presented

Readings: UNIX tutorial, Emacs tutorial, X-Windows tutorial, Free trial X-Windows client for Windows, Perl tutorial, PPM image format

Sites:

• ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• ACM Multimedia Systems Journal

Database Freeware:
With the following public-domain (free) software, you can easily set up a database application with a web interface. Applications on this class web page were all created using this software (on a UNIX server).

• MySQL: a freeware DB server (documentation)
• DBI: a PERL interface library for databases
• CGI-LIB: a PERL CGI library for web applications
• Apache: a popular web server

Image Retrieval Projects: list by Univ of Geneva, list by Google, list by Netcenter

Commercial DB vendors: ORACLE, IBM, Microsoft, SYBASE, and Informix.