Fall 2026

Foundations of Data Management

Foundational concepts in databases and data management, covering query languages and advanced modern data management topics.

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The course was rated as having low difficulty by one historical reviewer.

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COMPSCI 784

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Fall 2026

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Anhai Doan is described as a cool professor with high quality ratings. This historical review suggests a positive teaching experience, though the comment is brief and lacks specific academic details.

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Student experience

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Anhai Doan is described as a cool professor with high quality ratings, though this reflects historical experience from 2016.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.84 GPA, 96.9% A/AB (n=32 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.68 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

The course was rated as having low difficulty by one historical reviewer.

Reviewers found the instructor cool, but no specific academic details or frustrations are provided in the single historical review.

Topics

  • Query languages (conjunctive queries, Datalog)
  • Data streams, massive parallelism, provenance, uncertain data management, and privacy

Skills

  • Query language expressivity and evaluation complexity
  • Advanced data management techniques

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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  "requirements_status": "valid",
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  "observed_at": "2026-09-07 15:55:43.033547+00:00"
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