Summer 2013 (TA)

June 25

Full slides can be found here.

Working on the Proposed Solution chapter in the thesis, added more details, still some more refinements to do.
Working on enhancing the implementation of the index and optimizing the code, and make it more general
- stuck a little bit because I didn't have development environment nor AWS account, Now I installed Hadoop virtual cluster on my local machine, Hopefully will have some experiments by next week.

Full report can be found here.

Full design document can be found here.

Full Thesis can be found here.

Review what already done, applications for my work, similar works, ways of evaluation, and possible extensions.

Full report can be found here.

working on figuring out the rest of implementation details for Distributed LSH over Map/Reduce.
had a meeting with Yahia for getting the last version of the code, sync with the get hub, and the new design of the system.
setting up and testing the development environment on my local machine.

I did a report giving a quick overview on Locality-Sensitive Hashing for solving near neighbors search problem. showing its main ideas, algorithms, and techniques. also introducing some early thoughts how to implement it in our distributed index and showing some of the issues/challenges of its implementation.

Full report can be found here.

Reading and Surveying about LSH
Did some initial ideas about LSH and how to plug it into our system.
working and discussing with Dr. Maysam about he idea and implementation for the index.

Did a survey on KNN algorithms and techniques.

Full survey can be found here.