Carnegie Mellon University
Search Engines:
11-442 / 11-642
Fall 2025

Course Overview

Search engines are used in web search, e-commerce, site search, conversational assistants, and a wide variety of other information systems. This course covers the theory, design, and implementation of text-based search engines, retrieval augumented generation, and recommender systems.

Please see the Course Description, Schedule, and Homework links for more information about the course content, learning objectives, policies, and administration of the course.

Logistics

Time & Location: Tu/Th 3:30-4:50, POS A35

Instructor

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Jamie Callan

Teaching Assistants:

Aditi Saini
Allyne Zhang
Avi Arya
Jason Zhang
Rebecca Byrnes

Office hours: TBD