We will have teams of 2 students each. Each teams will have 50 minutes for the presentation of their topic.
 
Suggested topics for team presentations (others are possible - talk to me if you have some suggestions):

-data mining - more algorithms or more in-depth algorithms/ analysis 
-information retrieval (suggested reading:  sections 27.1-27.3 in Ramakrishnan and Gehrke textbook)
-GoogleFileSystem, HDFS (suggested reading: GFS paper - http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html, Chapter 3 - Tom White book)
-BigTable, HBase , more on no-SQL stores (suggested reading: BigTable paper - http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html, chapter 13 - Tom White book )
-Pig (Suggested reading: Chapter 11 - Tom White book)
-Hive (Suggested reading: Chapter 12 - Tom White book)
-other cloud computing topics (but not the same thing as in advanced web)
-file sharing and bittorent
-object-oriented databases
-object-relational databases
-RDF and SPARQL
-security in databases (either something interesting for centralized systems, or general security in distributed databases)