RELEX Programming School

RELEX Programming School

The first spring RELEX Programming School will be open at the Voronezh State University April 21-25, 2008. The leading developers of RELEX Group will be giving lectures to senior students of Voronezh colleges and universities.

There will be a round table discussion for RELEX representatives, VSU lecturers and students. Its purpose is to define the key knowledge and technologies necessary for students to start a successful career in the IT industry.

RELEX School Agenda

April 21

• K.E. Seleznyov (RELEX) Natural Language Text Processing Methods

  If language is power, how powerful should its processing be? WHere does processing begin? Lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic analysis. How to understand what is written? How to convey the meaning?

• D.S. Mukhoedov (RELEX) Anti-Spam Software Development Experience

  Everything you would like to know about spam but were afraid to ask. What to do and who is to blame? How to avoid and to cure? Mutations: Phishing, Malware.

April 22

• V.M. Melnikov (RELEX) SQL Language: How to Write and Optimize Queries

  How to write gigantic queries without mistakes? “Unprintable” SQL queries in real applications. Null value processing rules. A simple algorithm for writing complicated queries. Query optimization methods for different DBMSs.

• P.V. Pasechnik (RELEX) Round-table discussion: What a Student Should Know to have a Successful Programming Career

April 23

• M.S. Efremov (RELEX) Modern Technologies of Effective Web Application Development Using PHP

  The materials of the international PHP are used in this lecture.

• A.M. Bogatyrev (ArtToon) 3D Animation Development Technologies

  How to create an animation film "from scratch"? What do you need to know to develop animation?

April 24

• D.V. Borisenkov (RELEX) DBMS Development Principles and the Way They are Used in RELEX Developments

  Many various DBMSs besides Linter have been developed at RELEX. The lecture focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of some solutions used in Linter and other DBMSs defined by Stonebreaker as “elephants”.

• S.P. Markin (RELEX) Data Search and Indexing Methods in Relational DBMSs

  How not to get lost in the “woods”: B-trees, R-trees, M-trees. As it turns out, it is not so difficult. Bit and hash indices make it still easier.

April 25

• D.S. Mamonov (RELEX) Developing Enterprise-wide Applications on Java EE

  An application for 1000 users: is it large or small? And what to do if there are thousands of users? The lecture will give you the answers to these and a lot of other questions related to application development using J2EE.

• P.S. Tatarintsev (VSU, Applied Mathematics Department) Embedded System Development Experience

What is the difference between programs for robots and programs for people? Does industrial control system development resemble home theatre develpment? This lecture may become the first step to solving these complicated problems.

VSU, main building, Room 479

First lecture: 5:00 p.m.; second lecture: 6:30 p.m.

Welcome to the first RELEX Programming School!